pandanus@mastodon.social 8 months ago
@ajsadauskas @australia When I worked in The Rocks in Sydney an American tourist asked what the “big birds” in the evening were, he nearly fainted when I told him they were bats…
Anyway we got chatting and he said we was going to drive up the east coast to Cairns. Great idea I said, give yourself a week or two to visit all the interesting stuff.
He blanched and said he expected to do it in three days…
I blame the Mercator projection…
@pandanus @ajsadauskas @australia I misread and first thought they meant fly up drive around and while I to my shame haven't got to FNQ I thought, doing the reef one and and the rainforest the next would not do either justice.
Then I re-read and well, yikes you would not want to do that to yourself (or the other road users for that matter).
Folks do the same to NZ, long and thin is not small, for what it is worth. Our roads don't forgive that most sadly.
crumbleneedy@aus.social 8 months ago
@pandanus @ajsadauskas @australia my cousin is visiting for the first time. we have two weeks in australia. we're meeting in sydney and then flying to melbourne and it was harder than expected to get him to understand just how much time it would take to fit uluru into our plans (we aren't going).
unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I mean, Uluru is the definition of “middle of fucking nowhere”…