Wilson and his Promontory

I guess I can say whatever I want to on here.  No one reads it...

I have received a hateful message from a man named Lansford Covington.  I suspect it is either an insane individual who reads blogs with the intent of insulting people (as he also insulted my friend's blog Jordanias) or else, since it is a bit of a coincidence that Lansford insulted both me and Jordanias, that he is merely a creation of one of our mutual friends.

Most likely he just hates both of us.  Maybe it's Mathias.

Anyway, Near the later part of my first week of Holiday break, I went to Wilson's Promontory.  This is about as far south as you can get in Australia (The Lighthouse, which is in WP area and is the actual most southern point (this does not include Tasmania, which is like Australia's version of the UP.))

When you couldn't see the ocean it looked very much like the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia.  I went with a first year teacher at BHCS and her two good mates.  We'll call first year teacher Sasha and her two mates Holly and Lucile.  It was a short three hour drive through a lot of rolling hills and scrubby farmlands.  Mostly green, with some hints of Australian red earth.  Holly is also a school teacher and Lucile sells things... or markets things to be sold.  She doesn't seem to like it much.  I was able to decipher her true feelings towards her work life when she told me, in regards to her job, "I tolerate it."

I was fully prepared for a two night "over-night" hike.  When I showed up with my life folded and stuffed into my hiking pack, I set it down next to Sasha's gear.  I noticed she had a blow up air mattress that was a bit smaller than my pack, and significantly heavier.  I then realized what "hiking" meant.  I was perfectly fine with this.

We set up camp, two tents.  One was a palace, akin to the tent Hermione charms up in HP 7.2 (Mostly Better than Nicki Minaj) the other was a two person tent in which you could actually fit two people quite comfortably.

The highlight of the trip wasn't "Star-Tripping" (ask Kale Fire about it) on an ocean beach, or petting/riding a wild wombat or even rock jumping in the rain along the coast towards the ocean as the tide came in.  The real highlight was seeing, from afar, Nicky Buckley and her family.

Nicky Buckley and her family is the star of a C or D grade Australian produced TV series.  They travel around Australia and report to people/families/old farts what this years hot spots are.  They were present at Wilson's Promontory shooting a promotional video for it, focusing on how the area is still attempting to recover from the devastating floods of last year.  I will most likely be featured in the episode along with Sasha,  Holly and Lucile.  When we saw the cameras, we immediately began to poorly kick a footy around.  Our ruse worked!  They began to film and very shortly asked us if we had anything besides a footy.  We had a soccer ball!  So, we kicked that around!  They then asked us if we could set up goals and have a match.  We could and we did!  They then left us and started filming the Pacific Gulls scavenging for food around a group of elderly people.

So, if ever you are looking for something to watch, bored out of your mind... look no further.  The 2011 season of Nicky Buckley's show most likely features several seconds of yours truly kicking a footy or a soccer ball around in some dirt.  While Nicky Buckley's show is certainly worse than Nicki Minaj... those few moments of fame for me were far far better than good ole Nicki.


After the filming we asked her kids, young boys around 13 years old, if they wanted to kick a footy with us.  They said yes, but then they needed to be filmed stuffing skateboarding gear into a duffle bag.  After this they drove away for a half hour, came back, and then packed up their camper and well, we didn't see them again.

So, it was a good time at the prom.  There was no grinding, lots of nature and even a few foreigners speaking cool languages on a closed down bridge!  I'm going to try to make it back there again, so I can climb some more mountains.  And maybe play footy with Nicky Buckley's kids.  I don't know where else to look for them!

Next update... Super Hero camp with the low income kids.  Melmoth doing some good deeds!

Cheer,
Melmoth