When my boyfriend Keir returned to Melbourne, Australia I tracked his flight home on a map. It was then that I decided to go down and visit Australia for a vacation. One of Australia's great obstacles is also one of its great strengths.
Distance is part of what makes Australia the beautiful, strange, and paradoxical country that it is.
It is big, young, and sparsely populated. Its flora and fauna are not to be seen anywhere else in the world. Melbourne Batman founded the city of Melbourne. If you don't believe me, a downtown street is named after him. In 1835, John Batman gave blankets, scissors, and other small goods to local Aboriginal groups.