Trains, Trams and Automobiles

The transportation system in Melbourne is amazing.....trains run out of the city for miles in several directions. Trams, buses and automobiles coexist on the same streets with very few accidents, no horn blowing , no yelling.  Trains run from the city to distances equal to Vancouver to Chilliwack in about 8 different lines  (and they have water on one side too) and have done so for decades. It's like a choreographed dance. The transportation system is a necessity, a way of life, not a novety like in Vancouver.

Today we traveled from Malvern and then to St Kilda beach in the south to Pascoe Vale in the north in search of quilting shops. After a long walk from the train station in Pascoe Vale, Carol found some beautiful material and a new pattern for a new project.  One of the people from the shop drove us to a tram line for our trip home.  

We stopped off to get more groceries for dinner tonight and for a picnic lunch for our little trip tomorrow.  By the time we got back to the hotel....we were expert travellers on the Melbourne transit system with  a one zone daily pass costing us $6.80!  After dinner we we went out for a couple of more caches....5 in total today.