:O You gotta be kidding me... I would never have thought it was that much.

My priority is too see as much of Australia as I can anyways, it's such a beautiful, why go anywhere else!

It's just in the past few years that passports were required for crossing to Canada and Mexico.

 Previously, a drivers license was sufficient, but no longer.

Quote from: Beardman on January 01, 2013, 12:30:42 AM

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.