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Not everything wants to kill you in Australia

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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
October 18 2016 08:45 GMT
#1
Some time ago I mentioned in a random thread that I will be in Tasmania this fall and suddenly my years of wasting time of TL have finally produced a useful result - we exchanged a couple of PMs with the TL representative for the State of Victoria and brilliant simple-question-answerer Cascade and he eventually notified me that he will be expecting me and my wife in Melbourne's port holding an appropriate sign. And he delivered!

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What followed was an almost surreal display of hospitality as he has not only let us stay overnight in his apartment (while not even being there to watch if we aren't turning it into a meth lab) but he and his great girlfriend even took us for a whole-day roadtrip to the "Great Ocean Road", apparently a world-class coastline tourist destination (as evidenced by the swarm of tourist buses) and also actually a pretty great place to look at.

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Other highlights from out short stay include an evening in a park with friendly possums and giant bats and an in-depth discussion of the current state of SC2 concluding with an agreement to play 3v3s together ... and Cascade even found time to answer some of my simple questions about physics, proving his undisputed superiority in this respect (which should serve as a warning to me, because I am currently pretending to work as a physicst, whereas he doesn't).

And koalas, don't forget the koalas!

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5/5 would visit again.

****
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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TameNaken
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Australia361 Posts
October 18 2016 13:03 GMT
#2
Glad you could enjoy Australia, it's a beautiful country as long as you're close to the coast. You did well to see the Great Ocean Road, every side street is a hidden treasure over there.
DarkNetHunter
Profile Joined October 2012
1224 Posts
October 18 2016 17:31 GMT
#3
Sounds like a great trip, also very awesome to get a chance to and have such a great experience meeting a fellow TLer!

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55553 Posts
October 18 2016 18:22 GMT
#4
Awesome that meeting Cascade worked out.

Sooooo. Did something in Australia try to kill you?
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
October 18 2016 18:53 GMT
#5
On October 19 2016 03:22 Elentos wrote:
Awesome that meeting Cascade worked out.

Sooooo. Did something in Australia try to kill you?


Well, Tasmania is the most tame part of Australia. They have only three species of snakes for example; surely, all of the m are venomous, but they share the same antivenom, so you don't even need to know which one bit you, how comfortable is that, right? We have seen actually many of those (and they are pretty huge), but all just annoyedly snaked away upon seeing us.

Then Cascade started talking about all the deadly things and it turned out that my wife had probably held one of those (a deadly sea shell) in her hands on one beach
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
October 18 2016 19:59 GMT
#6
That's excellent man. I'm glad TL has brought people together to experience the world!
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The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
October 18 2016 20:46 GMT
#7
Hah! That's preatty cool. Only a 4 star blog though because i expected more pictures
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
October 18 2016 22:03 GMT
#8
Two handsome fellas.

Looks like a fantastic experience, also explains why Cascade was taking so long reply to my posts, haha.

I've had a few of those experiences meeting TLers as well, it's something that gets me so excited... Like it's not that weird, but it's that small world feeling and makes everything feel so cozy.

Nice blog, 5/5.
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
October 19 2016 03:18 GMT
#9
On October 19 2016 05:46 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Hah! That's preatty cool. Only a 4 star blog though because i expected more pictures


Nooooo, you ruined my scooooore

As for pictures, I have more than 13 thousand of those from the whole Tasmania trip, but vast majority are blurry attempts at birds and thus the whole thing takes some time to process (usually, years before an album is produced ... )

To ease the waiting, I give you a possum with a banana.

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"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
October 19 2016 03:21 GMT
#10
If you had included this one in the op it would have been 5/5
Nah good that you had a great time there man, looks and sounds awesome
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
October 19 2016 13:06 GMT
#11
Damn, so people in TL actually have faces too?

The first pictures is asking for many photoshops to add text to the paper (fuel by the mentioned simple-question-answers) :p
c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
October 22 2016 14:14 GMT
#12
On October 19 2016 22:06 AbouSV wrote:
Damn, so people in TL actually have faces too?

I didn't know people in TL are furry and like to sleep atop tree branches. Or wrong pic?

On the blog: The koala looks so cute :3 Oh and the follow-up pic of a possum too :3 Thanks for sharing the pics!
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
October 22 2016 17:15 GMT
#13
I want to go to Australia to take a selfie with a quokka :<
im deaf
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
October 24 2016 16:25 GMT
#14
Those are some great pictures Deadly sea shell sounds like something you would tell children around here to scare them for no reason hahaha
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