Around The World In 80 Waves

After all the events in the Snowy Mountains I had turned in pretty quickly and in the morning had forgotten where I had parked.

It therefore came as a bit of a surprise when I opened the sliding door to see a submarine next to me first thing in the morning.

You might not think that a surfer who spends so much time at the coast should find a submarine neighbour all that surprising but at this point I am in Holbrook.

It is the red arrow on this map and we are nearly 200 miles from the nearest coast!

There is also a submarine museum here but I am needing to get moving before they are open so cant enlighten you further as to the whole story behind the submarine.

I can tell you it is HMAS Otway and can only assume they brought it here in sections because there is no way you would get it a whole submarine down the mountain roads and there are no sizeable rivers or inland waterways that it could have travelled along.

You can see the grass either side of it here which I stroll across to check it out.

Nobody seems to mind me climbing all over it in the first light of day with my morning coffee.

I get a stack of pictures but sadly cant find anyway of getting inside it.

Very odd!