A few things she left out

First off, driving in Melbourne requires an engineering degree. The parking signs read like the plans for the space shuttle. They have this thing called a hook turn. this may be the most ridiculous thing ever created. If you want to turn right, you get in the left hand lane (mind you, you are driving on the left hand side of the road) pull all the way out in the intersection, then pull a bit more let to let the cars behind you go then slam on the gas to cross four lanes of downtown big city traffic. It was a tad intimidating. After getting out of the city, it was like driving in Eastern Montana. another crazy thing about Australians is they really have no suburban sprawl. It goes from city to nothing. We were on the main highway from Melbourne to Adelaide (2 major cities in the country) and in several points it went to a one lane road. When I say one lane I don't mean one each way. Literally just one lane. When you see another car coming you drive off the shoulder of the road onto the dirt, but don't slow down. Anyway, it was real cool to just be cruising through the country.

As for the sights Nikki hit the nail on the head. These cliffs were nothing short of spectacular! Just sheer cliffs and rocks that stick out of the ocean that were 50 feet tall. As for the Koalas I would like to again point out that Nikki was wrong (I'm not petty). I was telling her we'dsee one and she kept busting my chops about watching the road. Not only did we see one but we saw a bunch, and they were some cute little buggers.

On Sunday, we did want to do a bit of surfing (I have to before I leave Australia). I checked out the water first without the surf board, and there didn't seem to be sufficient waves. I'm gonna need some gnarly waves so I can totally hang ten dude. Swimming was still fun, I was a little worried about the killer jellyfish/sharks/snakes and such that are so common in Australia, so I wouldn't pee in the water, but outside of that all good.

On a side note, in my ever increasing world travel in search of odd urinating facilities I came across a very strange toilet/urinal? type thing. It was basically a hole in the floor in a stall. If someone has seen one of these and can work out the logistics please enlighten me. The only thing I could come up with was this a way to #2 while standing up.