Home Made Tourist Attraction

Home Made Tourist Attraction

While we were away, we did not just do meetings! We tried to show the kids what we could in Victoria. (between rain and floods!)

One such outing stuck in our minds as quite funny.

Trevon really wanted to see koalas. A number of years ago we had been to Cape Otway and saw the many koalas there. We thought we would go there and show the kids the lighthouse and koalas as it was on the way to Geelong North, our next destination.

It was surprising to see the damage to the trees, so many were dead. We assumed this was from too many koalas in the area.

The kids were double disappointed at this stage. We planned to visit the lighthouse, but it was too expensive to go in, and there were not the huge amount of koalas in the area.

To compensate for this, we decided to stop along the road at a safe spot. We would have a cuppa, and the kids could wander in the bush and look for koalas there.

stopping for a cuppa

Dennis went in to make the coffee, and the kids and Glenys wandered about looking for koalas. It did not take them long to find some. The koalas were in the trees just beside the road.

Trevon & Nellie were looking around and counting the koalas. While they were looking, a carload of tourists came around the corner. They saw the kids looking and pointing up into the trees. Next thing we knew the car stopped, an out poured a car load of tourists. They ran over to where the kids were and started looking at where the kids were pointing.

first lot of tourists crowding around Nellie and Trevon

The kids showed the tourists where the koalas were, and they wandered off looking for more. The 2 kids pointing out the koalas to each other caused other cars to stop.

While we sipped on our cuppas, we watched as more and more people stopped to check out why so many people had stopped.  This really tickled our sense of humour.

After about 20 minutes this was the result:

13 cars and numerous tourists looking for koalas

Nellie made the comment: 'Look, we have made our own tourist attraction!'
We should have been selling cups of coffee to everyone!

A few weeks later we went to the Charlton show. Dennis was pointing out a branch on a tree that was very unusual. I told him that if he kept pointing, he would make another tourist attraction. Sure enough a lady came up and asked what we were looking at. She was so disappointed  that it was only a branch!