Melbourne - Day 52

Melbourne exudes a storied elegance, with broad tree-lined boulevards, botanic gardens and Georgian municipal buildings birthed from 19th-century gold rush wealth. With a bustling business district and the Arts Center, it is very much a city to be explored by foot. The Fitzroy Gardens, just a short walk from St. Patrick's Cathedral, boasts Captain Cook's Cottage, owned by Cook's father in the 1750s and mosed uire og in Australia trom a small village in North Yorkshire, England, in the 1930s-making. The gardens are truly beautiful. Melbourne has 5.2 million multicultural diverse people. (10% Chinese). Taylor Swift will be in town on Saturday, at one of the biggest football ovals in the world. (1.2 million). 80 miles from here there was a gold rush in the 1850’s -massive nuggets, biggest in the world. Pokies are slot machines. Busiest bit, not part. Victoria - the garden state.
Today, we go to Healesville Sanctuary. It will be 97 degrees. We are following the Yarrow river - running water. Yarrow valley has 80 gourmet wineries. Much of the industries have gone to China. Education is a huge industry in Australia and especially Melbourne. Gambling is big in Melbourne. 15k rotary members attend conventions here annually. Gasoline is $8.00 per gallon. Unemployment in Australia is 3.8%, US is 3.7%. Dingos are not dogs, and do not bark they howl. They can rotate their neck 180 degrees. They are the intermediate between foxes wolves, dogs, and come from Indonesia. Flying foxes (fruit bats) are not foxes.Read more