"birds don't have hands." "yeah, but monkeys don't have wings!"

The blog finds us in a hotel in Adelaide. Most everyone has crashed yet again (this whole changing to the local timezone just isn't working out for us). I'm clinging to consciousness in order to post.

We completed our transit across the Nullarbor plain this morning, exiting the train in Adelaide at the cheery hour of 7:20 am. Fortunately, we'd all been awake since at least 4am, so it wasn't like we had to wake up and pack quickly to disembark. Today involved a visit to Cleland Wildlife Park, where Jenny and i got dive-bombed by some sadistic birds (with unfortunately good aim, my pants may never forgive me).

I assume my afore-mentioned sister will post a much more dramatic blog entry accounting for the train ride and our first day in Adelaide, but right now she's not asleep, she swears. She's encouraging me to get my pictures posted somewhere where she can post links, which i'm attempting to do at this very moment...