second night parst melbourne, I only did 140ish today, going for battery charging rather than great progress. I'm 30km or so from shepperton camped under river gums.

this week Im at enviroment week at the brias, showing kids a difrent style of recycling and transport.

made it to the Mornington peninsula last night, almost to where I was staying almoast being give or take 10km. in the morning I figured that I had at least 30ah of battery, plus whatever I could pull in from the sun. it turns out I only had at most 23ah stored. darn.
This sharp realisation occur'd at night, about 205km after Wilsons prom, on the free way   witch witch had a really good shoulder and was way safer than most of the hiways Id been on all day. it was also a fundamental part of the directions I had been given.
of cause when I loose power I also loose lights, and inevitably a cop car pulled up apparently they'd had reports of some weird tricycle on the road and didn't know what to expect, they were really good, especially considering that I was technically illegally on the road (side) and had just lost my lights. it seemed to make their night far more interesting and wile one looked at my ID the outer was asking if he could take a photo. pretty quickly my friend turned up with a Ute and the cops helped us load up, thanks guys.
it was a tense time but a good learning experience with no fine, or broken things so a good lesson. stop at 50V.
the best part is that the cops took a photo

today I walked to south point, the moast sotherly point of the australian mainland. one down, 3 to go.

first day today, and no breakages, woo hoo, the send of was good, the sun was powerfull and I did 130km in the afternoon, good milage.

only 2 days to go now before the treak starts. I finally lined up mark one, two, three and four for a photo, it was really great to see the progression. its a lot of bike.

last weekend the trike went for its first serious test ride, 160km ( partly threw the bush) to (f)routeville, ( an art, fruit and social enterprise event) the trike did well with good mileage ( wh/km)  and no breakdowns, not even a flat tire, such a relief.
my department date is looming, march 11 is only 4 days away, scary close. I'm leaving from the suitability festival at the Orbost show at around 12-12.30.
a few people have asked about donating to the trip, http://www.gofundme.com/27e6oo is probably the way to go.