Great Ocean Road Day 4
Trip Start
May 07, 2005
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Trip End
Ongoing
Jack Aniway,
Australia
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
We had not made it halfway to Adelaide so we got serious and spent most of the day driving. We stopped at a nice little cafe and had nachos, kangaroo meat salad, and Devonshire tea, and odd combination if I ever heard of one. The kangaroo meat was good. It was very marinated and could have been beef. The nachos were like Doritos with ketchup, mozzerella and guacamole. When Kim asked for hot sauce they gave her Worchestershire sauce. Australia may be like Texas in many ways but the TexMex is clearly not one of them.
We left Victoria and entered South Australia. Let me take a minute to rant about Australian names. For the most part Australia has fantastic names for things, possibly the best in the world. Some things are aboriginal like kangaroo, boomerang, billabong, Uluru others are descriptive and cool like blue mountain, bay of islands, Great Barrier Reef, Outback, Top End others have that stately British influence like Victoria, Queensland
Lorakeets?
. So why do they name one state South Australia and another Northern Territory? I think they should change them to Jack Aniway and Monsoon Desert. But I don't live here so I don't get a vote.At the border of Jack Aniway, er, I mean South Australia there was a quarantine sign that said we weren't allowed to bring fruit or vegetables from Victoria. Since Kim already had a record as a produce criminal for trying to smuggle in Thai mungbeans we decided to dump our remaining oranges in the little quarantine bin along the otherwise empty highway. We hid away an onion and 3 zuchinnis and quickly munched down three carrots.
We stopped at a little trailer park near Adelaide. It was next to a park that we started to walk around but got tired and went to sleep instead. We did finally do laundry and took much needed showers. There was a flock of ducks that came around in the morning. We threw oats at them. At first it made them mad but eventually their little duck brains realized they could eat oats and we became a hit. We also saw two very pretty parrot or cockatoo birds. I swear I never used to be much of a bird watcher but Australia is changing me.
