Today we left the coast and headed inland towards the Grampians (just next door to the Pyrenees you know) and I think today it really struck home how big this country is.
One desolate farming community garage was still advertising La Fayete and Nash cars from the 1930s, I’m not sure if the doors had been opened since;
The town looked like it was dying on its feet, must be tough out here.
It looked like some of the places we’ve seen on films of deep American farming towns.
The farms are huge but then we got to the forest leading up to the mountains – just massive.
Apparently 700 different types of Eucalyptus tree alone. We stopped at one information site and found that a lake in the woods had just refilled after 10 years of being dry. The rain came with a roar and took away quite a few roads in January, some still closed.
We realised we were a bit isolated when we tried to buy some meat at the local General Store in Halls Gap and they said “sorry we haven’t had a meat and veg delivery for over a week.”
We’ve spotted loads of birds and animals, both native and introduced, today, Carole got very excited.
Red deer were introduced for sport by the Eauopeans.
We saw this on the side of a track, its like a large hedgehog but is called an Echidna, an egg laying mammal. A farmer stopped to see what were looking at and he said he'd only seen half a dozen in his life.
Thought we'd done well when a troop, (a new collective noun for you) of kangaroos bounced across the road in front of us but then we walked into the village from the YHA past the cricket ground this evening... Is this a pitch invasion? They had a sign up saying "no dogs" - it just didn't mention Roos.
A kokkaburra
Bob and Jan's tenner enjoying a glass of wine at the YHA - they are so much more civilised than they used to be!
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