I ended up leaving Orbost early at around 7:30 am. I had a ticket for the Botticelli to Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia that had a time on it (although when I went in half an hour early no one mentioned this), so wanted to get to Canberra with good time.

I had considered eating in Orbost, there were some other cafes there (other than the one I ate at the previous night), but they opened at 8 am, so elected instead to drive to Cann River and eat there, it being a little less than an hour from Orbost.

You can tell the road from Orbost onwards is the much less used portion of the Princes Highway; with much more curves and turns to it and combination of these with elevation changes.

It's through picturesque farm country.

In the early morning only the mist, and the smoke hanging above the landscape from people's chimneys marked the houses and farms along the way.

I arrived in Cann River and went to the Relics Cafe, scanning in before I walked through the door, the couple ahead of me did not scan as they approached or went in. They only ordered a coffee before leaving. I ordered the Big Breakfast, the guy behind the counter seemed apologetic that I had to scan in, told him I'd done it before I'd walked in.

I sat myself near the window so I could look out at the intersection there.

The wall felt like it was almost emanating cold through it, feeling like it was exceptionally thin. Meanwhile there was quite a 'clunk' as the compressors for the fridges beside me kicked in.

Whilst sitting there was trying to work out why I'd seen this building before, then remembered I'd seen in on Domain, it is for sale.

The Big Breakfast was fine, wasn't expecting 3 fried eggs. Bacon was good. The sausages weren't, I had two mouthfuls before deciding 'no not for me thanks', and a bite or two of the hash brown suggested that the oil it had been fried in wasn't at its best.