The theme for this week’s card for my 52 Cards Project is Respite—which I think pretty much sums up the last week if not most of our trip to Australia.

By this last week I found myself feeling a lot like this koala bear up in the Eucalyptus trees outside of where we stayed on The Great Ocean Road in Victoria:

I wasn’t necessarily sleepy (though now that I’m home with jet lag I sure am!) but very tranquil. We’d found our groove by this time into our Aussie holiday (that’s ‘vacation’ for you yanks) and I was ready to make like the koala bears and just hang out.

On the other hand, koalas have very small brains (the size of a walnut) and sleep 20 hours a day—tempting, but I was also ready to go home.

Anyway, here’s a last set of pictures from the last week or so, both in Melbourne and on The Great Ocean Road about 3 hours south-ish from the city.