I forgot to mention in the last post that we finally had some Vegemite, provided by our host for breakfast. There isn’t much “Australian food”, but Vegemite is one. I spread a bit on toast. I didn’t care for it much, it is salty and bitter. Yanmei liked it a bit because it reminded her of soybean paste from China.
Anyway we stayed the night in Narooma, which is a little coastal town. In the morning I walked down to the Bay where they have a rocked called Australia rock for the shape of the hole.
If I’d gotten there a couple hours earlier, I might have gotten a picture of sunrise through the hole. Oh well.
For our next Airbnb, we booked on a farm in a placed called Calulu. We finally crossed over into the state of Victoria, after having been in New South Wales all the time so far.
On the way we stopped at placed called Eden for lunch. They had a wharf and we went there to look around. There were two restaurants across from a seafood wholesaler. We decided to try the fancier one, and it was pretty tasty, grilled fish with rice and some salad. Then Yanmei wanted to try the cheap place too, so she ordered a fried sweet potato cake for $1 and found it was super delicious. There also appeared to be a lot of locals ordering large takeaway orders, so we probably should have just had the fish and chips at that place.
It is always interesting to see smaller working farms. This one was 115 acres. The host had moved from Sydney 3 years earlier to try farming. He found it wasn’t economical, so he and his wife both have at least part time jobs to make ends meet.
After the farm we continued to Melbourne. Yanmei took a turn driving, her first time on the left side.
We arrived in Melbourne and checked into our Airbnb downtown. This time we have a whole apartment, instead of living with a host.
David