Great Ocean Road

Mon. 4/20 We are off on a two day road trip along The Great Ocean Road west of Melbourne. It was built as a tribute to those who died in WWI and the views are magnificent with beautiful little resort villages along the way . Today we saw the coast along Bass Strait that runs between Tasmania and the mainland and tomorrow we will follow along the coast of the Southern Ocean that is between here and Antarctica. The road is a narrow little strip cut into the sides of the mountains that run down to the sea. We are glad we are on a bus and not driving it ourselves. We leave for the outback and the tropical Northern Territories on Wed. It has been in the 90's up there so it should help prepare us for returning to Texas. You can stop worrying, Nanny. There have only been 3 dingo attacks since we have been here and they have all been on children. Apparently they don't care for fat old ladies. One sixty-seven year old woman was attacked by a kangaroo last week but she thought she had probably startled him when she woke him up from his nap. And only one person has been eaten by a crocodile in the last month. He was swimming in the river where they live which isn't something I am likely to do.