Melbourne is a bustling metropolitan city, the first we've seen since leaving the States.
We rode the Puffing Billy Steam Train with open air cars. The custom on this train is to sit between the rails with your feet dangling outside the car. Some younger ones did but not us :)
We toured by motor coach all thru out the Yarra Valley and Dandenog Mountains and had lunch at a vineyard. Great food but the white wine was much too dry for our taste.
Our temperature for this March 22, 2007 day was a balmy 33C. Do you know how to figure C to F? Just double and add 30 to find our rather hot 96 degree day. "Down under" is opposite weather wise from the States, just imagine Christmas in Summer. Hard to, isn't it?
More kilometers down the road brought us to Healesville Sanctuary, a zoo full of roos and wallies all napping off in the far distant shade of a tree behind the fence. I was thankful for the day before when I could feed, pet and walk among them. We saw the rare platypus in a dark building, very small from original thoughts. No pictures allowed. Other types of animals but much too hot of a day for any of us.
Later we found ourselves at a sheep farm and that was very interesting. Watched the dogs mustering (herding) the sheep from the pastures and then inside for a sheep shearing demonstration ~ all in one piece! Did you know petroleum jelly is made from wool? We felt a piece and it's full of lanolin. All the little things you learn from traveling the countryside.
Lamb is not only in the hills and the pastures but also on the table and yummy it is! My first time tasting and now it's become a fav ~
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