My daily drive to work takes me down (and back up) the MacQuarie Pass. That's pronounced 'McQuarry', not 'Mackerie'.

This takes you down the edge of the Illawarra Escarpment, through the rain forest, and finally opens into pasture land at the bottom - about 15km further. You're literally driving down the side of a cliff. At the top it's about 1.5 lanes wide with only an occasional metal post between you and a plunge straight over the edge - full of blind curves and hairpin loopbacks like the one shown above.  It's a wild roller coaster ride, and always full of surprises. This morning there was a tree in the middle of the road. Not a branch, a tree. Last night on the way home, there was a kangaroo in the middle of the road. Couple weeks back there was an 18-wheeler truck straddling the dirt spot where the red car is in the above picture. Stuck. Last week it was fog so thick you could cut it with a knife. I was about where the truck is on the left of the picture going uphill, and there was some maniac going downhill about where the white car is on the left. Doing about 80km/h (~50MPH) in a 15km (~9MPH) zone. Passing another car. Next to a cliff. On a blind curve, next to a hairpin loop. In zero visibility fog. There's barely enough room to pass oncoming traffic here without scraping each other's mirrors.

It starts to be entertaining to try and predict what will be thrown at me on the next time up/down the road. But that's the fun of the MacQuarie. It's always unpredictable.

Just another day.