rest of Australia...we're finally in Melbourne!

We were at Seals Rock during a full moon which unfortunately covered the beach with these unpleasant Portuguese Man of Wars.

The lighthouse at Seals Rock

Our attempt at catching our dinner.

A view of one of the bays from Crescent Head.

After nearly a month in Australia, I think we're ready to move on to New Zealand as we find ourselves growing increasingly more grumpy and travel weary. We find our days consisting of nothing more than cooking, eating, driving, and sleeping. Plus, we feel paralyzed to do anything we had planned to do as everything is so expensive (surfing, diving/snorkeling, penguin watching, all got scratched off the list) and if I don't have to eat another PB&J sandwich, it will be too soon. Now we jokingly refer to this part of the trip that is to be endured, not enjoyed. We've made some mistakes in trying to cover more distance than we have time for, but we've found that after the excitement and intensity of Southeast Asia, everything has been a bit underwhelming in comparison.

On the brighter side of things, we've seen some beautiful places like Seals Rock and Pebbly Beach (many wonderful recommendations from our good friend, Sandra)। Some of our more comical errors involve us trying to expand our thriftiness by fishing for our dinner. After spending about $30 on a fishing pole and another $5 on bait, we have caught absolutely $0 in food! We've caught a total of 2 puffer fish, 1 turtle, and 2 spiny rock fish thingies of which some were poisonous and none were edible. We decided to retire our fishing pole until we hit NZ waters as we felt like we were turning into the grim reapers of Australian waters...poor little critters.

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