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A Wildlife Day

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I can’t help it, for years I have followed the full time RV mantra that any blog post must have food photos in it, the more the better. Taking pity on the readers of our Australian adventure I have endeavored to limit the number of food photos to the bare minimum required by universal blogger law. What can I say, I’ve a lot of English ancestors and their love of baked beans for breakfast has obviously found fruition in this descendent of theirs. Tootin’ Bob. We were off on a wildlife adventure today. We stopped to view this group of red headed parrots feeding alongside the road. What happens when someone pays no attention to what the guide says and decides to move in closer. By the end of the day a number of the people in our group had concluded that brains are not a requirement to go on an OAT tour. So just exactly what are these attractive ladies looking at? And no, it wasn’t the handsome and dashing young photographer that took this photo. What’s that in the c...

On to Melbourne

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No, we didn’t start the day with a glass of wine. These two containers of wine which were in our room remained unopened, mostly because they charge you about half the cost of the room if you drink them. Okay, maybe that was a slight exaggeration, but the real reason for the photo was Ms. Gin & Tonic got all excited when she saw the Copa, saying several times, “That’s the one we saw on Shark Tank , that’s the one we saw on Shark Tank .” The heck with platypuses and kangaroos, Linda knows what is exciting in Australia. The first of our seven flights while on the tour. Not everyone packs as light as we do, but then we are traveling for nearly three months and they are traveling for just over one month. Confused Bob. What a snack on a Quantas Link flight looks like. The Mini Moments were not like anything we get on short flights in the US, peanuts anyone, and were awesome. I spent the flight hoping the propeller didn’t fly off. If it did I’d instantly become half the ma...