Well before the year 2000 myself and a mate hitchhiked from the outskirts of Melbourne and up the Hume highway 1,000 km to a motoring event at Bathurst, New South Wales. The event held over the Easter long weekend. Picked up late Friday and arrived the following morning by about midday Saturday. Hitchhiked all night through periods of rain and fog. Periods of waiting for a lift beside the dark roadside. To my amazement done in good time. Picked up by cars or ute's not trucks. The drivers were assorted farmers and families. At the event we spent time on the hill campground with thousands of revellers enjoying the party atmosphere. One of the funniest things I seen was an overturned car bonnet removed from an old car and a tow rope had been affixed to a car with a man skiing and pulled along behind with the bonnet underneath. Weaving a path along grass tracks near campsites. Very unsafe I imagine. I got an express bus to return home to be ready to work on the Wednesday. First and only time hitchhiking. Not encouraged and illegal in Victoria. I haven't seen a hitchhiker for years now.

Early one Saturday morning hours before sunrise and driving across country Victoria to reach the Great Ocean Road a bright glow of green lit up most of the clear night sky. Lasting several seconds. Local ABC radio was playing. Within a short time the announcer proclaimed the station had taken phone calls from puzzled listeners seeing the same thing. I have since found out a larger falling meteor is like this. If the meteor is made of iron and nickel it producers a green glow from friction in the atmosphere.

Lake Argyle area in tropical Western Australia. In the tropical top northwest of the State. Night time solo driving from Kununurra to return to Lake Argyle Resort along the Lake Argyle Road. On return to the resort from Kununurra, past the bridge and on the only road in and out, and still 25 km to the campsite, I  noticed a small speed hump across the sealed road. Upon driving closer only then I realised it was a python tail stretching two thirds across the road from the bush. The standard sealed road width in Australia is 3.5 metres. With this in mind, I would think around 4 metre's in length or 13 feet. I drove around on the right side road shoulder. No problem and kept driving. No other traffic at all. But it did make me think about securing my tent site.

In the Outback. Woomera to Port Augusta, South Australia. Nightfall along the main highway about halfway between the two towns. Perhaps 500 metre's from the road, intense bright white light spreading over a large area was reflecting from the ground between some low ridges. Similar to a floodlit sporting oval but lights low and unseen. The strange thing is why and how? Located in rugged desert countryside? So no farmland with machinery. No road, rail or wayside stop. Not a mining area. No trucks. No houses or available power. Very isolated. Not a drone, spotlight, searchlight or scrub fire. Bit of a mystery! I'm sure there is a plausible explanation.

One of the most memorable driving experiences I recall is the first solo road trip driving to Western Australia. One odd event occurred during a service station stop on the Eyre Highway. In the small township of Eucla near the border with South Australia and Western Australia. While filling the car with petrol, a Holden sedan pulled off the highway and parked next to a fuel bowser. The driver filled his car, paid and rejoined  the highway. Normal enough. But his sedan was minus all four doors, bonnet and the rear window. The car had number plates. A funny sight in the middle of nowhere. Outback and desert country. I assume the driver and car drove from an Outback station homestead to refill with petrol and returned back to the station. All other vehicles along this highway were packed full of long distance travel supplies etc. Mostly towed caravans and trucks. So out of place and questionable if road legal. I think it had seat belts and side mirrors. Tyres and windscreen looked ok.

Night time driving between Devils Garden State Forest and Mokepilly Bridge 9km from Halls Gap. A silky black animal off to the right side of the road a little bigger than a large dog illuminated in the high beam headlights sat up turned and ran into roadside ferns. Moved like a cat not a dog. Feral cats can grow to dog size. This appeared bigger than any dog. Perhaps it was the touted Grampian puma claimed to have been occasionally seen since the nineteen fifties. The story is, World War Two American soldiers released puma mascots into the wild after a stay in the Grampian National Park The big cats and then their offspring surviving and hunting in the mountainous thick bushland. I wasn't stopping for a further look. Who knows if any truth to it?