End of week one

Here we are the end of week one, left Melbourne this am after 5 nights.  Great city, fantastic public transport, very terrorist oops tourist orientated.  Went to the beach by tram.  They were racing in the bay mainly 35footers, pretty breezy.   It's a ten minute brisk walk to the docks, or a two minute bike ride.  Today was our first day on the Great Ocean Road.  We're in Apollo Bay for two nights. Hoping to see Koala bear tomorrow and maybe a roo.  Lots of ways to kill yourself over here.  The past weekends tally was a 17 yr old bitten on the hand by a shark he was trying to pat while spear fishing on a surfboard.  A 43 year old woman was found by two bushwalkers (hikers).  After two days she was disorientated, dehydrated and shoeless! no idea how shoe got lost but they think she wandered away from a campsite.  Not well enough to talk.  It was a major effort for the rescue squad to drag and winch her up the hill in a litter.  Two other guys died in the outback after their truck broke down, and there are five teenagers stranded after the creeks all rose to flood level so,they can't cross them. At least they have water.   This coming weekend is Australia Day so I'm sure there will be a bumper crop to report on next week.  It's not too hard to come to grief over here, lots to do neat country, very friendly folks.  I'll try and put a pic of this but no grantee.  

How to Kill yourself in Australia:    Driving on the wrong side of the road with a 6-speed transmission.  You can recognize the tourists by when they turn, the windshield wipers are on
2 the Gold Coast Road that we just drove for 75 kms is worse than the Cabot Trail

3. Go swimming in Newcastle  and pat a shark.  Kid was bitten by a shark as big as a car while he was patting it. They closed the beach for 10 days.  Other sharks were around as well.

4.  Some woman in Perth woke up with a snake in her bed.   More news later, cocktail hour is upon us.