Roads, more roads, and cows?

Technically I'm starting this blog late as I started travelling yesterday. Realistically, I started driving yesterday, and arrived today. Turns out Australia is big. And having the distance being in quadruple digits should tell me something. But even though I've basically just spent 1.5 days on the road, you see a lot over that time on the roadside.

Finding cows is not exactly original in Australia, but usually they still restrict themselves to staring at you over the fence, or (on rare occasion) being scuttled over the road. In this case, the fences kept them in the area of the road as opposed to away from it. Though you tend not to find them standing on the road, probably because the yummy grass doesn't grow there.

The things which grow and aren't eaten by cows are either wheat (which grow in huge yellow regions), or vineyards (which grow in huge green regions). Quite frequently they also grow right next to each other, and it's confusing to look at such a contrast in scenery. One thing which the vineyards managed though was to be placed directly over the road from residential houses, with the highway between the two, and then you get even more confused.

Finding the police in a country town is really easy. You just look for the parade of cars with rally stripes and check which building they are in front of. These rally stripes are far easier to spot than the police sign.

Other random things include: trees with about 20 shoes slung on the branches; found two of those. A kookaburra standing on the road, playing chicken, and actually winning; I thought he'd flinch when I roared past him by 20cm but he was still standing there in my rear view mirror. And a large watering system on wheels, that, when seen from a few kilometres and through hot refracting air, looked like something was wrong with the clouds on the horizon. And a train track bridge where the bridge was taken down by dumping the tracks and wood onto each end of the remains.

P.S.: I'm blaming my total lack of a camera team for the terrible camera quality, and rather regret not bringing a decent tele.