Right. Got back late last night. We drove from Perth to Exmouth and back. 9 days, 8 nights and 3,700 klicks. All up we saw some ridiculously cool things. Took me ages to catch up with my digital life, uploading pictures to Facebook, Flickr and my photo blog, catching up on email and thousands of updates in my RSS feeds.

Best of the best was:

Dolphins that come right to your feet at the beach in Monkey Mia:

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Drift snorkling with tons of fish, turtles and a reef shark at Turquoise Bay in the Ningaloo Reef (which some say is way better than the Great Barrier Reef as the coral is still thriving):

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Standing at a beach where around a hundred turtles were mating in the water and on the beach.

If you want to see more you can do so on my Flickr profile or over at my personal photo blog.

I’m off to Western Australia for 9 days to drive 2,000 klicks up north from Perth and back down again and see the famous pinnacles, swim with dolphins and so on.

In the meantime no posts so here’s a few collected links:

• Client Side Blog post on conversion counting more than ever In digital
• Campaign Brief Magazine online edition for free till end of the year (only July/August issue so far though)
• Will it blend? - interview with Tom Dickson
• Tourism Australia is happy with online sponsorship response
• Save cash on eBay thanks to other people’s typos with Fat Fingers
• Guns and toddlers are just not a good combo
• Minit - parent to parent advice
• 10 most sought-after skills in web development
• Forrester: New 2008 social technographics data reveals rapid growth in adoption
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers predicts that traditional media has 5 years left
• Last but not least: The first minute of Who’s Nailin’ Paylin (SFW but I wonder if there’s a McCain scene in this)

More (in Italian) on the DAConnect website.

The new ad for Tourism Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann who also made the new Australia movie starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. A natural fit to leverage the blockbuster to promote the continent.
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Holy Moly, people are gonna have a field day finding funny shit. Maybe they drove past one of Corey’s street parties. The above is the McCann Worldgroup building where I work.