The Great Ocean Road is Australia's version of the Pacific Coast Highway. We got to it on a ferry. The kind that holds cars. We drove a car onto a boat. A CAR ON A BOAT. Now I know why I came to Australia.

After a long drive along the coast, we turned inland, in the town of Lorne, where we encountered this. Cheeky Aussies.

 

Inland, things get marshy, and we encounter black swans. Being a black swan is a rare genetic trait everywhere else, but the geese here are isolated, so the rare became commonplace.

We're staying on the east side of Melbourne, where there's clouds and rain and wineries. The farther west you go out of the city, the dryer it gets, and the more cattle and sheep and rolling hills.

 

 

 

I'm so glad we went to the coast yesterday, since there won't be anything like that in Hawaii, where we'll be tomorrow, or...you know, Oregon.