Anyway, as previously mentioned, I visited the Naracoorte Caves National Park. It is located about 60 klicks north of penola near the Cambodian border, or not really (klicks always makes me think of Vietnam war movies) but it is indeed 60km north of Penola. It is a World Heritage Site, which apparently doesn't hvae to mean it's awesome. I guess I shouldn't hate on it too much. There were several caves that were interesting but not crazy interesting. I think the most exciting part of my day was tracking down some Kangaroos (which I really could have done anywhere without paying the $25, but I digress and need to stop complaining. It was still somewhat interesting and I probably missed all the really interesting parts by not reading up on it first).
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| I think they spotted me. Knew I should have packed my ghillie-suit. |
The other quasi-interesting aspect of the park was a section in the information center. It involved you walking through an area set up to recreate Australia from about 60000-100000 years ago. All around me were animated recreations of strange marsupials that no longer roamed Australia. There was a large kangaroo/koala hybrid that supposedly weighed around 250kg, some large wombat looking thing, Tassie tigers, and a bunch of other crazy crap on the walls. The funny thing is that all these things moved; it was like being at an ancient Australian Chuck-E-Cheeses only instead of a giant skateboarding mouse and banjo playing bear there was a koalo/kangaroo mutant and a giant wombat-hippo...and they didn't sing happy birthday or anything. I don't know why but I still found myself watching them for extended periods of time just to see if they did something out of the ordinary; you know? like after the 20th repetition the kangaola (the mutant) might just wink at me or something; just waiting for something like that. Never happened. Apparently computer programmers for robots don't have a sense of humor and don't throw things like that in. I mean seriously, would it be that hard? Just make it so that it winks like once every 2 hours; just infrequently enough so that people don't believe it happened (hmm, this is beginning to sound like Fight Club now. Subconscious taking over. I am Mark's Half-drunk Tired Brain).
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| "Did that thing just give me the finger?"...that's the Kangaoala btw Despite the fact that this part of the park was clearly meant for children ages 4-12, I still played the game and enjoyed myself. I even made a video of all the breakdancing extinct robot animals (maybe I'll try to post it; lighting was poor so it might not have worked). Anyway, after my traverse through the animated marsupials, I went to one of the caves. This brings me to another point: whats the difference between a cavern and a cave because these seemed to be just like caverns to me. Ok, just looked it up and it appears to be a semantics issue; I guess in the states they prefer the term cavern (everything has to be bigger and better). I put up some pictures on facebook, so feel free to check em out. Here's one of my favourites of the stalactite formations from the Alexandria cave:  Man, I'm super tired. This is going to be a terrible post. I think I only started writing it (beside boredom of course) was to put up some more awesome music I've found (even though I'm most assured no one is checking that stuff out. I still feel it my duty to promote good music that most likely won't reach american soils). Anyway, before leaving this island/country/continent/penal colony, I'm hitting up the Great Ocean Road for a couple days then heading to Tasmania for 3 days. The Great Ocean Road is a section of road on the southern coast that runs right along the coastline a couple hours outside Melbourne. Supposed to have great views. Should be a good time. I mean who doesn't like waves hitting rocks? Hopefully I'll get to see a Tassie devil and a platypus while in Tas. And if Tv has taught me anything is that tasmanian devils travel via spinning (and were genetically engineered by the Warner Brothers now defunct research group) and that platypuses are make believe like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
AUSSIE MUSIC TIME: So I discovered what is one of the best albums I've seen in a while: Hungry Kids of Hungary - Escapades. First album in a while where I have liked every song on it. I previously posted one of them but here's a few more from the album and another song by an Aussie artist that I enjoy (hopefully they all work too). Hungry Kids of Hungary - wristwatch Hungry Kids of Hungary - set it right Hungry Kids of Hungary - Coming Around Andy Bull - Dog (feat. Lisa Mitchell) |
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