At that price, I'm never gunna need one! My priority is too see as much of Australia as I can anyways, it's such a beautiful, why go anywhere else!
I was stunned to see a New Year's Eve Picture, at least that's how it was represented, from Lorne. In it there was man in some sort of semi-visible plastic ball being rolled about.
Things must have changed. Decades ago, a mate of mine from Geelong, and I used to drive down to Lorne to go surf casting. Then, this is possibly 1968?9? it was a sleepy little spot on the road with a decrepit hotel that catered mainly to fishermen such as ourselves. Then, there weren't as many people in the place as were shown in the photo. I recall chatting about it with a friend in Darwin who was the Queen's Rep? Governor? Governor General Something of that nature. And that area was amazing. There were road trains, no rail, the Dream Waters, Katherine River Gorge Fanny Bay with its infinite supply of Crocs....This was all before the place was torn down by the typhoon. I've never been back, too many friends were killed and, now, as I look at the pictures, it's not the up and at 'em sort of place it was. I remember flying in and out on AnsettANA and, when we landed at Alice, they first put up netting before they opened the ventral staircase the bugs were so bad.
A long, long time ago......Sorry to take up your time with wool gathering.
Ah yes, Lorne has change A LOT since then, it is now a party town during the summer months, it starts in November with the "schoolies" (kids finishing high school) and from then it pretty much turns into a Tourist town until March/April and then goes into hibernation until the summer again. But New years eve is massive down there as well, there has been known to be lots of trouble down that way but it seemed to be pretty good this year.
I think it I go to the Northern Territory I would never come back haha, it just really seems to be my kind of place. Hot most of the time, work hard, play hard, just sounds great to me... but the flies! It always surprises me how they just seem to multiple into the billions during the warmer months! Even down in Victoria...
@ Tom, that's pretty cool!
I lived in Darwin for a few years -- the Queen's rep is the Administrator.
The Queens representative is the Governor-Genera. But in actually researching, the Administrator is appointed by the Governor-General, is I guess a representative of the representative of the Queen... lol! So there you go, you learn something new every day!
As American CItizen's we do need to have a passport to cross over into Canada or Mexico as is also needed to go to other countries. I need to renew mine again in 2016. We used to be able to get by just producing a copy of a birth ceritficate. Actually I think it is much easier to just have a passport even though they are not cheapto obtain.
It makes it easier for them to control who goes across the border too, I mean, with just a birth certificate alone you could really be anyone crossing the border! At least the passport has photo ID.