One of the workers in grain company keeps a kangaroo as a pet. She was so cute. I was able to feed her with nuts! He also has parrots, cockatoos and dogs. His house was like a small zoo. Birds were also pretty and beautiful, some of which can say "hello". I wanted them to step on my shoulder but they didn't, unfortunately... They liked only guys.
I didn't expect that barley farms in Australia were so vast... You can see barley, horizon and the sky, nothing else. The large scale production was astonishing for me and it was very different from Japanese one, which are usually based on small pieces of land. They said that farms were small and divided in the past, but the economic pressure made farmers either sell their land or buy others' and expand their property in order to gain competitive productivity. Ex-farmers left the countryside and moved to the city to find a job. That is why city is crowded and Australian farmers can make profit. Time may come when Japanese farmers will be forced to do the same thing as globalization is affecting the food production more and more. So problematic.
Beaches were also nice. It was rather cold and not good weather to swim but some people were already enjoying swimming and surfing. The summer has just begun here.
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