Our First Week

We left for our 6 month holiday on November 26, 2006. We left Calgary airport at 8 am, landed in Los Angeles, had an 11 hr stopover and then continued onto Melbourne. We arrived in Melbourne after approximately 40 hrs of travel time. From Melbourne Dave and I plus his family travelled to Stratford, which is about 3 hrs east of Melbourne. The state of Victoria is currently experiencing the worst drought in recent history. As a result there are some severe bushfires burning that we actually saw start.
While in this area we did a few tourist activities, including Buchan Caves and Lakes Entrance. The caves are limestone caves that had lots stalactites etc in them. From there we headed to Lakes Entrance which is on Bass Strait, took only photos because the water was still too cold to swim in!
On December 2 was Kelly and Chris’ wedding, were I met more of the extended family.
Also went to a local cattle auction. Things are done a little differently over here, the auctioneer walks along a walkway over top of the penned cattle and sells the cattle as a pen rather than individually.

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