My apologies, dear reader, or maybe, even to both of you, for the current lull in my instruction of how you should think.
I am part way through a grand tour of Victoria with Mark and Mayumi Brazil. Mark is a well known ornithologist and author of some good books on birds, a resident of Japan and regular contributor to the Japan Times. It is the couple’s first visit to this neck of the woods. So far we have waded through the mud in the pouring rain in the Dandenongs, enjoyed the great pleasures of the Werribee sewage works, frozen in the bitter winds of Port Fairy and the Great Ocean Road, thawed out in the Goldfields and enjoyed every minute.
Our next leg takes us through the Little and Big Deserts and the Sunset Country. Then we head east.
I will post some photos and more detail when we hit some broadband.
bobmcgee 
I must say, I have found it hard to think clearly without you continual input but I will battle on.
Sounds like a fun trip.