Thursday...2 April 2015

So driving up the road today from Macksville to Casino via Coffs Harbour and Grafton we passed some interesting signs. Yes we saw The Big Banana as we came through Coffs Harbour,  but back to my story.
The first sign said Watch for Koalas. Fairly standard around these parts. The warm and fuzzy koala bear is definitely not endangered here. Now a koala in the wild will rip you or anyone else for that matter to pieces should you be silly enough to attempt to give it a hug or to lift it off the road before some other less caring motorist should iron it flat with a nice new set of Coopers. Those things are lethal weapons. The koalas, I mean, not the Coopers. The claws on their feet and hands are more deadly than a kangaroo in mating season. And speaking of which, we also saw a sign that said Watch out for Kangaroos. After living in the north all those years, I have never really stopped watching for kangaroos. Every tussock of grass blowing in the wind on the side of the road is a possible kangaroo sighting to me!!
The next sign I noticed said Watch for Wild Cattle. Now cattle really are warm and fuzzy creatures with their soulful eyes, so what on earth would make them wild we asked ourselves? The next sign said Watch for Horses. There was a riderless horse prancing across the sign and no one seems to have a problem with them on the loose and out of control, or animals like koalas and kangaroos wandering at will about the country side, but the poor cow that is probably lost and desperately trying to find its way home, is described as a wild animal. You know, I would be wild too if someone described me to the world that way!
And while I think of it, we actually saw a sign recently that said to watch out for deer. Crikey, is there any thing we do not have running loose in this big country of ours?
Along the way today we had alternate patches of bright sunshine and pouring rain. As it is the beginning of the Easter break there were extra police patrols and lots of motorists flashing lights at each other. NSW is also very fond of the fixed speed camera. We should be ok with them, we never go over the limit with the caravan hitched on. Way too dangerous if you have to stop in a hurry.