After two years in the Dandenong Ranges, we finally visited the Dandenong Ranges Botanic…

…Garden. Amazing to see in Spring. It’s a huge place. I think we covered only 20% of it.

Parking seems to be extremely limited and unmarked, in a dirt section across the road, which led to highly questionable parking.

Charging:

Today’s trip was partly due to a frequent oddity of owning an EV. We had an excess of fuel. It feels like a shame not to use it, for free.

The solar production from our roof fully powered our EV, home and house battery, and it wasn’t worth exporting any to the grid (negative feed in tariff). Fortunately, as you can see from the graph, the Amber app shut down our solar production while we were away, after our home battery was fully charged. All automated, so we didn’t have to do anything.