Dumb Marsupials

If you are following the updates on this blog with rapt attention, hopefully this one doesn't disappoint. I mean, it probably will, so maybe you should lower your expectations. I am sitting in an internet kiosk in Melbourne with time to spare on the clock, so I thought I should tell you all a little bit about what I have learned about kangaroos.

Kangaroos are so numerous in the outback that they are seen as pests, and most vehicles, regardless of their size, have a large winch bar on their fronts. It is a bit odd to see a sedan with a bull bar, but this is to protect the vehicle from the kangas that often step onto the road. A local we were talking to said they have no road sense whatsoever, and judging by the innumerable skeletons in the ditches, I would have to agree with him. We actually didn't see any kangaroos ourselves, as it is the wet season right now, but when the dry season hits, the ditches get twice as much water from the road run-off, and that is when the kangaroos come in droves to some of the only greenery in the Outback. And again begin bouncing off the fronts of the locals speeding vehicles.