Be Prepared, and very very scared! Part 2

After the RMIT course it was off to Bairnsdale. They have erected a sign saying 'Hometown of the Tangles' but my camera wasn't working so I couldn't get a piccie. Bairnsdale was the home of my Wilderness First Aid Course, which I need if I'm to be a Group Leader in Costa Rica in 2008. I spent the next four days learning how to realign fractured and dislocated limbs with traction-in-line splints. Most of the time was spent dressing fake blood wounds and splinting/slinging/CPRing various victims of the bush. I passed the written and practical components and when we walked out of the bush at the end of it, I had grown some nice 4-day growth.

On the way back, we stopped in Merimbula, at a hotel recommended by a friend from the first aid course. We got a cheap deal, and from the looks of the front of the hotel, I thought it was warranted:

But check out this view from the balcony! What an awesomely deceptive hotel.

Anyways, back in Sydney after a hairy drive through fog in Wollongong, living the bureaucrat life and looking forward to Christmas. Season's greetings to one and all.