Travelog post for: Flora

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I had not realized that Halloween passes by barely noticed in Australia, but my host and Strider did their best to make a great Halloween for me!

Nik hunted high and low and found some Halloween M&Ms, and even made me a passable Jack-O-Lantern!

I was especially happy to see this Halloween postcard Nik received from a Postcrossing friend - it has spooky stuff all over it!
Nik told me Aussies would rather tell you a "yarn" (a tall tale) than a ghost story.
I was disappointed to hear that, but then Nik read us some true ghost stories, ghsot stories from the earliest days of Australia!
Spine-chilling tales of penal settlements haunted by the spirits of convicts weren't enough, we scared ourselves long into the night with these other books as well!