Only in Australia!

Friday April 14th – I woke up and headed next door to the “Macker’s” which is what Australians call McDonald’s. Here I was able to connect to the internet (for a price, of course). I posted a couple of blogs and talked to my mom and Grant via SKYPE until the time I paid for ran out. It was nice to make contact with home.

Sue and I hit the road and dove towards a town called Port Fairy, along the way we saw a sing for the Tower Hill game reserve, so of course we turned in. Although obscure, it was really cool. It was a volcano that blew eons ago and left a crater. We were driving around inside the crater which seemed like driving down in a small valley. As we drove in Sue pointed towards the field on our left and there, strolling across the plain was a group of Emus! How cool. Then we drove to the visitor’s center and did a double take as we saw two people at a picnic table trying to shoo away the emus who wanted their snack! (Photo posted here). We took pictures then went closer and chatted with the couple as we watched the emus. As we drove thru the park we would look up and see koalas in the trees, we saw at least 8 in various locations. Saw more emus wandering around but no ‘Roos, although they are supposed to be here as well.

Port Fairy was pretty small and many shops closed due to the Easter holiday so we didn’t stay long. We headed back past Warrnambool to the Great Ocean Road and started pulling off at the various lookout points. The weather kept getting worse so he finally gave up and went back to Warrnambool where we found a cozy dry movie theater and caught “Failure to Launch” which we found very entertaining. Hoping for better weather tomorrow as we head back to the Great Ocean Rd and go to the famous “12 Apostles”.