You joined the Hume Highway, the major road that runs between Sydney at Melbourne, at Yass and turned to the south. It’s a long and not very exciting drive however there is a must-do stop at Holbrook. Here, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest ocean, is the decommissioned HMAS Otway, an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy. Holbrook was originally called Germantown but was renamed during World War I in honour of the more patriotic British submariner and Victoria Cross recipient Norman Douglas Holbrook. The Otway’s fin was donated to the town in 1994 and the community decided to tender for the purchase of the rest of the submarine, but despite fundraising efforts and a large donation from Holbrook's widow, they failed. Cleverly, they then decided to use the money raised to buy the upper section of the casing - everything above the waterline when surfaced. It’s just one of those crazy Australian things that we love. 🤪