Made the crossing of the Bass Strait to arrive in the capital of Victoria, Melbourne. Often eclipsed by Sydney, Melbourne has a lot going for it, a very cosmopolitan city with a distinctly continental feel. It has its own part in history, despite being not being created until 1835, when John Batman purchased the land from the Aboriginal occupiers for a bit of flour and a few clothes. Boy did they get the wrong end of that deal. The Old Melbourne Jail was where they hanged criminals, the most notorious of whom was Ned Kelly, who met his end in the jail at the age of just 27. The original gallows are still there. A rather macabre practice in the jail was to take death masks of all the executed bodies so you can see exactly what the condemned looked like as they departed this world. Took a trip 88 floors up the eureka tower for a 300m view above the city. Fantastic looking down on the clouds below.