Holidaying in Bicheno (remote seaside town) and looking at the night sky as it is much more spectacular than the light polluted sky is suburban Melbourne. I saw a satellite passing overhead (roughly east to west) and called to my wife as she hadn't seen satellites (not a star gazer). When I looked back I couldn't see it but spotted another moving in the opposite direction and pointed that one out to her. I saw another one following at roughly the distance of 3 times a full moon. Excitedly I told her that these must be Starlink (which I have seen a few times previously) satellites tracking across the sky. Then, the leading one just stopped, the trailing one continued and closed about half the distance, paused and the sped up to meet the other, they then continued across the sky as one light. I was actually narrating this to my wife as it happened. I was surprised at how the leading one stopped, saying it shouldn't do that and then how the following one caught up. If I was in Melbourne I could maybe rationalize this away as possibly drones. But where we were, and the height they appeared to be, I'm certain they weren't, and satellites don't move like these did.

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