In 1886, Marinos left Ithaca shortly after his brother Anthony JJ Lucas. Their destination – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In the 1932 obituary for Lucas that appeared in "The Herald" newspaper (now the Melbourne Herald Sun), reference was made to the fact that a relative of Marino's had visited the country and returned to Ithaca with tales of great potential in the distant land. This relative was most probably Andreas Lekatsas. Andreas Lekatsas had arrived in 1845, only 10 years after the foundation of Melbourne in 1835 by John Batman.