Apologies for the light posting. I've been uploading photos to flickr but by the time the telegraphs get sent back and forth I end up falling asleep. I created two sets of photos: Boy Meets Girl and Photos from Moonlight Head and the Otway National Park. Once I get to somewhat better broadband I'll upload more and do some rearranging.

We've enjoyed our stay in the Victorian outback at Moonlight Head. We drive back to Melbourne tomorrow and then fly back to Sydney in the evening. We'll be in Sydney through next Saturday. We leave Sydney on Sunday morning, arriving in Papeete on Saturday afternoon. We leave Papeete Saturday evening, arriving in L.A. on Sunday morning, and JFK Sunday night. That will be a long set of flights.

Have had an annoying problem creep up with the cameras. They're both Sonys, and save photos with the name DSC01234.JPG where 01234 is a number which increments. When I set up each camera (a DSC-T30 and a DSLR-α100) I forced the file numbering to begin "high", instead of DSC00001.JPG for example I managed to force the first photo to be DSC07000.JPG on the α. I thought this was a good thing since it, initially, guaranteed different names for photos from the new cameras, as well as set their filenames apart from earlier photos from earlier cameras.

Well, that was stupid. First of all, the cameras only number photos up to DSC09999.JPG. Which seems like a lot of photos, unless you've forced the numbering to start at 7000 to begin with. And you play with the rapid-shot feature and end up taking 300 pictures of dogs on the beach at a time. So yesterday the number rolled-over and the photos were numbered DSC00001.JPG and so forth. This is annoying since my filing system for the photos assumes they're named differently.

It gets worse. I have two memory cards which I rotate from camera to computer. Moving photos off the memory card is always slow on my laptop (blazing fast if I can use the USB cable which I don't quite understand, and isn't an option with the α-100). So I tend to take a slew of photos, swap cards, and deal with offloads and uploads later. The file numbering is apparently keyed to a hidden file on the card. So while yesterday's photos were of the form DCIM\102MSDCF\DSC00001.JPG, today's photos were on a different card, which didn't have a 102MSDCF folder but did have an empty 101MSDCF folder. The first photo today was DSC09998.JPG. Two photos later and I had a third DSC00001.JPG file floating around (helpfully in a different directory, but still). So, I'm just not going to deal with it until getting back to Sydney where I can offload the whole mess to a portable drive I brought along and try to find another way to sort through all of the photos.

That's a long winded apology for not posting more photos of the stunning scenery around where we've stayed for the past couple of days.