My biggest regret in Australia is that I didn’t start taking photos of the road signs from day 1.   This country has absolutely hilarious signs.  Some are to be expected, like the strange animal crossing warnings (kangaroo, koala, cassowary…), but the ones that really had us laughing for our days (and days and days…it’s a really big country…) along the coast were the warnings to drivers about taking breaks and general road safety…   

Here’s a sampling of the inspirational messages tucked along the highways of Southern Australia.

“Drowsy Drivers Die!”

“Yawning?  Take a Powernap!”

“Buckle up or Suffer the Pain”

“Microsleep can kill in seconds”

“Open your eyes! Fatigue Kills”

“Tired?  Powernap now!”

“Only sleep cures fatigue”

And since I can’t leave you without any photos, here’s a special gem of a warning for a tourist stop along the Great Ocean Road…the cartoons they chose to depict these warnings of danger were always exceptional and borderline disturbing…

 

[Ed. note: “oh shit watch out the cliff is crumbling OMG I’m falling ahhhhhhhh!”]