Adelaide to Melbourne

I'm on the home stretch of a journey that has taken me from Adelaide to Melbourne by car. I did the reverse leg by plane in around an hour. Yet by car this trip chews out 10 hours of your life.
If the road journey had some spice or flair to it I might enjoy it more but it doesn't. It's a straight road of 800+ kms and for the most of it you are restricted to 100 kph.
Sure there is the giant koala outside Ararat, which named its town that even though it's within 30mins of Ballarat. Maybe to rise it's big brothers coat tails.
There is the border sign, oh joy that's not even a big thing, it's a sign on the side of the road. No rock, no big gate and no fun at all. Hell even the time goes back 30min there but no mention of that either.
The road to Melbourne from Ballarat goes quick as you are so close to home that you just want to get there.
No wonder people spend the money flying, as driving is so long winded. So much concentration is required in order to stay alive. And to those of you who believe you can drive it non stop one way? Don't because the road is boring enough as it is, I don't need to die hitting your sleepy car.
Just fly.

Cranbourne

There is a disappointing part of most peoples drive to Phillip Island, it's the city of Cranbourne. Recently I had the dis-pleasure of stopping off at the shopping centre in search of a shirt for a funeral. I was hoping I would need only to pass through Cranbourne, but with my travels taking me elsewhere, this town was my last resort. I walked into the local shopping centre. Only to be greeted by dozens of pregnant teenagers, drug addicts and general derolicts. I felt that the combined IQ of the shopping centre had the potential to crack 300. It seems that some towns attract certain folk. Be it the cheap rent or pokie venues but you will get those towns where they are in abundance.
Cranbourne is full of drifters and bogans and the council would not seem to mind as the landlords still pay tax and new houses are being built every week. It will take a rent rise to move them on.

Bullying – even the animals are into it

On my way home tonight I saw a creature in need of help. It was a brightly coloured Rainbow Lorikeet, who was hoping over the road and looking rather distressed. I though I might catch him and see if I could provide him a warm home and food and maybe see if he came good. But I was interrupted in my mission of goodwill by a case of bullying. There was two Myna birds who were swooping at this defenceless parrot. I was on my way over to help and all I could see was a barrage of constant attacks for what seemed like no other reason but for fun. It's the equivalent of a human watching a man with a broken leg hobble across the road and then running over and kicking the daylights out of him. Now we would think that was well over the line between normal and criminal wouldn't we? So I feel for the little parrot. He must have been injured by a typical event, then figured he needed to find respite somewhere and on his way he was attacked by some birds from a different species. Where the hell was this parrots mates? Drinking at the local bird bath I presume? Useless.

In the end the little guy got angry at me when I came close and I took that as my que that he didn't want my help. He found his way into a tree and climbed up to escape. I figure this is nature doing its thing. But next time someone says "you are behaving like animals", then think about this case, because their not far from the truth.