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  Melbourne, Australia
Monday, January 21, 2008

After a visit to Summer Bay things don't get much sadder....when you're there in person,  it's time to take a long hard look at yourself and wonder what muck you've been watching on tv at 6.30pm with the dinner for the past 20 years. The bus driver was helpful enough and screamed 'home and away' at the passengers as we approaced the stop for the beach, which is the setting for the ozzie version of fair city. We didn't see Alf, Pippa or Fischer (also known as flathead from what i remember) but they had the surf club and kiosk in good working order. Surprisingly enough the beach is actually fairly good. The waves were rough and sand was brown. After getting our sweat on we jumped back on the bus for the 2 hour journey back to sydney.

We also visited the aquarium. We had all week to visit and we waited until Saturday to go...idiots! The place was full of little asians with big cameras...there was some fish in the tanks aswell

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. The highlight was probably walking under the shark pool in a glass tunnel, other than that, when you've seen one fish finger you've seen them all.

We rented a car for a week and drove to Melbourne, just got back yesterday. We had the intention of seeing the tennis in the ozzie open, which we did to my surprise. We got tickets for the Vodafone arena and got to see a few good games with Sharapova, Serena Williams and Davydenko. Melbourne was a good spot, well worth another look. The place rained like Ireland and looked a bit like Ireland too. It seemed a bit more working class and cheaper than Sydney. Great Nightlife. 10-12 hours is what it took to drive there, with McDonalds every mile. We got a speeding ticket, 220dollars or something, i doubt that ticket will be leaving the glovebox though. Jamie was driving at the time, he was lucky to be under the limit. Got a crack in the window too, no doubt they'll charge us a hefty sum when we drop the car back. Aswell as that some piece of plastic fell off the bottom of the car now that i think about it...well it didn't really fall off so much as we ripped it off with a pliers since it was making too much noise, hopefully it wasn't important.

In Melbourne we stayed in a dingy hellhole of a hostel. A leaky roof and a deathtrap of a bed is the luxury that 33dollars a night will get ya during the ozzie open

Alf's pad up in the clouds next to Summer Bay

. There were no ladders or barriers on the top bunks. Jamie jumped up on his bunk one night and a metal strut which was supporting his mattress flew off and missed the Columbian underneath by inches.  The next night the same thing happened. The metal bar missed the Columbian's head again but Jamie was getting closer. He must have been used to it, probably sleeping with one eye open every night. Carlos (the Columbian) had lived in the room for 8 months with his little portable tv and a few bits and pieces. Probably the kind of guy who'd consider Auschwitz akin to a 5 star hotel. One night there was another Peruvian lad, named Enrique, in the bed with him, sleeping head to toe. If the metal bar came off that night, the room would have had one less South American in the morning. The two boys didn't seem to mind the imminent threat of impalement though. I'm beginning to think we must be too soft....as Chopper (Gangster, Murderer and Mayor of Melbourne) would say 'it's time to grow a moustache and harden the fc*k up'.

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an excellent example of boring coral	another good one from Vick	beach shot	blue haze over mountains
blue mountains	cablecar	can i get chips with that?	catfish
check out the people in the bottom corner	cliff edge	Closer each day...dum dum....Home and Away...	coming to get ya
cow fish	davydenko slam	decent rally amoungst the ladies	did someone drop a hanky?
doing a bit of OT down in the coal mine	edge of the rocks	fishy	freaky looking eyeball on him
getting on the train - steepest train in the world	good return	good vid of sharks and other things	grass
i had to jump over a few japs to get this close	Jamie / myself	jaws	jellyfish
looking up	men's rally	meself	more fish fingers
more interesting coral	more scenary	more stuff	mountains
myself before taking on Federer	platypus hiding in the bark	posing again	preparing to serve
relaxing in the mountains	scenary shot	Serena and Victoria something before the set	seriously high
Sharapova enjoying a good squat before the serve	Sharapova Posing	shark lurking in background	sick of looking at fish yet?
strange fish	strange tank of fish	Summer Bay	Surf Club - check out who the club official is
sweet shot	The 3 sisters - blue mountains	the 3 sisters again	the cablecar again
the climb	the edge of the 3 sisters	the valley	the waves down in the bay
train arriving	tv interview with Sharapova	valley shot	vertigo
video in cablecar	view of the eucyliptis - great for a runny nose	Vodafone Arena - view from the nosebleed seats	walk down the side of the cliff
waterfall in the rainforest - the water was tasty

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