Watching the 1960s flik "On the Beach" with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Anthony Perkins. Set in Australia after WW3, as the population waits patiently to be wiped out by a cloud of deadly radiation from the Northern Hemisphere. A little grim, but with diverting examples of US centrism. Ersatz Australian accents. Non-stop arrangements of Waltzing Matilda. An account of navigating from Manila "down the coast of Australia to Melbourne" that casually overlooks the existence of Indonesia.