Australia

I visited Melbourne, Australia to race the Asia Pacific Ironman Championships. My Mom accompanied me and post-race we drove the Great Ocean Road. Since it was my first visit to Australia, I of course wanted to see kangaroos and koalas. We got lucky and found some koalas napping in a tree along the Great Ocean Road. I did not even know what a Wallaby was until I arrived, and thoroughly enjoyed visiting a park where they eat out of your hand. Kangaroos were a bit harder to find – we kept seeing Kangaroo crossing signs on the road and it became a bit of a running joke that they didn’t exist. Finally one evening we were told to go visit a campground a few miles from the ocean at sunset. Sure enough the sun went down, the moon came out and so did the kangaroos. A highlight was getting to watch them box in the light of the moon!