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[pebblerocker]

 I'm in Australia!

It is still dry and flat and full of gum trees.

And I'm now down in the Australian customs records as a Bad Person.  I put down on my customs form that I had no food or plant matter in my bags, and the X-ray machine found the apple that my man had forgotten to eat when we were waiting for the plane in Auckland.  I got a very stern talking to from the official, but she let me off the A$220 fine this time.  No second chances though, if I'm caught smuggling again I think they're going to lock me up and throw away the key.

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[pebblerocker]

No, they did let me off the fine this time, and the apple has been safely incinerated or whatever it is they do with them, so the environment is safe. The fine really is very high, but they could see that I wasn't smuggling with evil intent so they just threatened me a bit and let me go. After all they can't just allow people to wander through with all sorts of stuff and let them off because they're being thick. Ignorance is no excuse, especially with all the signs throughout the airport about it.

I do hope they'd be a little less harsh with someone who didn't speak English, though.