Off topic, but I just found out that there is skiing in Australia, a bit northeast of Melbourne. I guess most of us think it’s all red, flat, and hot.
Next week I’m taking my family to Perisher which is one of Australia’s biggest snow fields. It will be the first time any of us will see snow since where we grew up (Port Macquarie) hasn’t seen snow since before the last ice age.
Yep, pretty good skiing as well.
Most of the country is red, flat, and hot - but most of the places people live are reasonably green and reasonably wet which is why we live there. And even our mountains aren’t all that impressive by world standards (”I’ve climbed Australia’s highest mountain. It took about two hours from the carpark.”)
I love living here - I can be in the snowfields in about two hours - and only have to put up with it if I want to. No shovelling drives, etc.