My last full day in Australia. Today is also Melbourne Day, or Foundation Day. It was on 30th August 1835 that the schooner Enterprize first docked at what is now Queen's Wharf having sailed down the river now known as the Yarra.

It's been a fun 9 months here. Starting as I did last December. Christmas and New Year being far too hot - which is just wrong. Christmas should be about the cold and snow but then things are a bit backwards in Australia. Seeing people in Santa hats on St Kilda beach. I've travelled round four other states, South Australia, Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland thus leaving only Western Australia as the only state I haven't been to. I've taken in the beauty of the Great Ocean Road, suffered boredom in Adelaide, the wonders of Uluru and the Red Centre. Drunk, smoked and fucked my way around Sydney, disliked Brisbane, loved Cairns, sailed the Whitsundays, seen the Saints look like flag winners, floated past wild crocodiles, got stoned in Byron, thought about living in Alice Springs, got sun burnt at the MCG, seen Revenge Of The Sith 5 times, met more people than I can remember, watched the Superbowl on a Monday morning and generally had a very, very good time.

Tomorrow I fly out of Tullamarine and head back home, to York.

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