James’ travelog

While cyclone Larry left his trail of destruction around Cairns, the Melbourne weather was just fine today. This contrast is not too strange when you take Australia’s monstrosity into consideration - often overlooked by those who haven’t visited this continent yet. This is the sixth biggest country, and the largest island on the planet. The following picture puts Australia’s size nicely in perspective. (The Netherlands fits twice in Tasmania alone!)

Anyhow, as I was saying, the weather was nice today. Perfect for a fieldtrip, which was in fact what I did today. As I mentioned somewhere in one of my previous posts, I follow a course called Education in Natural Landscapes which entails visiting a variety of Australian locations (the course is sometimes referred to as ‘camping for credit’ ).

So this morning I left uni campus at 07.30AM to spend the day at Aireys Inlet - located about 2 hours south-west from Melbourne along The Great Ocean Road - which has some very nice nature reserves. I’m not going to write much about it, but will simply let these pictures speak for themselves.

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