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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vectis Birder" data-source="post: 1464401" data-attributes="member: 43690">I've just arrived in Australia and the fact that Melbourne is less than warm is a nice change after the sauna of Singapore!It's 0644 and I've not gone to bed yet, probably won't until bedtime now, not that tired and the birds are out there waiting! Or until it gets light enough to see what I am doing, it's a crowded hostel room, I didn't want to wake anyone so I opened the door, slung my rucksack in and came down to the computers instead.Did make one mistake though - I've not been to Melbourne before and jumped into a taxi at Tullamarine Airport thinking it won't cost more than $25 'cos it can't be that far surely...an appalling $63 later I was wishing I'd waited another hour for the airport bus! I'm pretty pissed off but, you live and learn.There are penguins here in St Kilda, down at the breakwater, so I'm going on a penguin hunt later. :t:Just realised what a bloody pretentious title I've given this thread - 'odyssey' indeed! Just goes to show how bad I am at thinking of snappy titles!</blockquote>