Day 302 - Morgan. On the left is the big pit at Kalgoorlie, embiggen it to get a better idea of how big this hole really is. I was listening to the wireless this morning and they were discussing how Julia Gillard's sacking (or the "spill") had been a big hit on Twitter. There were 80,000 tweeters, it sounds like heaps but it represents only 0.4% of the population of Australia. An even more damning statistic is that 50% of the crows, chirps, sqawks, cackles um sorry tweets involving the sacking were re- tweets. Thus not only is it largely irrelevant to the vast majority of Australians, those who do use it seem to be a pretty talentless lot with nothing original to say. By way of contrast the combined "spill" news TV audience was 3,500,000. When you hear, as you invariably will, that the number of active tweeters in Australia has doubled, remember that twice fuck all is still pretty much fuck all.

The big news is that on Thursday I completed my first lap of Australia. It all happened when I reached Poochera. I camped at the pub and had a little celebration where I was joined by the "Tour de Crawf" and every person within a 100 kilometres of Poochera. A fantastic night was had by all and they raised $2,500 for cancer research, not bad for a town whose population is 185.

For the golfers amongst you, I now have a golf course from every state and territory of Australia in my GOLF Link last 20 scores see GOLF Link I should also have 20 different clubs but some clubs have failed to post my scores to GOLF Link, with a bit of luck I will do it anyway. This coming week will see me take on the golf courses of the Riverland.