169% OWNED...

... Is a description that could be applied to millions of tourists every year. Apparently, they pay big dollars to go and visit a glow worm colony in the Gold Coast Hinterland. They don't realise that touring this area on my bicycle on a regular basis has allowed me to find another six that they don't know anything about, and best of all it doesn't cost me a cent. There is truly something special about riding along a dirt road with glow worms lining the side of it for literally kilometres on end. Mist shrouded rainforest isn't bad either.

In other news, some government official got on Triple J this morning and lamented the fact that young people are too cynical about politics to "get involved". I have to say the news concerned me a little -- could it be that I was wrong all along? Are young people in Australia smarter than I've given them credit for? This would seem to indicate so. Let's face it, the fact that there have been more changes in government (at various levels) in Australia over the last 20 years than changes of policy has to say something. The few visionary politicians we've produced in that time have been ridiculed endlessly in the media to the extent that they had virtually no chance in the polling booth. At Federal level we've got a choice of a government stuck in the 1950's, or an opposition that can't make up it's mind on any issue for more than five minutes, and people wonder why we're cynical?