The Aussie knack for touting rocks

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This photo at the Twelve Apostles in Victoria, Australia was taken during our recent family holiday. The ladies went shopping and sent by bro-in-law Kuochuan and myself to drive my two nieces and mother-in-law to look at them rocks.

As you can see, the collapsed pile of rocks is actually one of the 'apostles' which collapsed recently (quite apt, given that Judas betrayed Jesus and killed himself after that ...).

Have to say the Aussies are q good at fashioning money-making tourist attractions from rocks and stuff. I mean, unless you're a geologist or something, who'd quite appreciate looking at a couple of rocks after a long drive of like 5 hours? My niece summed it up: "You brought me here to look at rocks?". But mebbe we're being rude.

The last time Layfong and I were at Ayers Rock (one of the top attractions of the world), we watched sun rise over the massive monolith, turning it into various shares of orange, yellow, ochre, etc. We were woken up at like 5am so we could see the rocks at 6am. I can still remember what one Brit youth told his parents: "We travelled thousands of miles, paid thousands of pounds and spent all this time getting here ... just to see this big rock?"

Have to say young people have a great way of simplifying stuff down to the basic essentials :)