You didn’t think there were more? Well….
Our time in Darwin was brief – we just had two nights here and since it was wet season even that seemed to be too long. Nothing was going on…. ;) We hired a car to drive to the closest National Park (Litchfield) and spent a day there. Unfortunately there was soo much water in […]
Here are the pictures that I didn’t upload with my last post.
I finished my last post with “The Great Ocean Road is waiting for us!” – well….. it still is! And it still will for quiet a while, because we didn’t make it: We messed up our route. Apparently our brains were on holidays (or rather one was, the other one was way too busy working), […]
We made the 5 hours from Batemans Bay to Marlo (where we were very nicely welcomed by our next Courchsurfing hosts) in one single bit. We stayed in Marlo for 3 nights and Andrew and Debra were really good company. She’s a teacher and he’s got his own photo studio at home. He gave us […]
Remember the Creepy Crawlies Sand-sculptures from Melbourne? Well, Australia does have quite a few real Creepy Crawlies, Hoppies, Flyies and Swimmies. Here are some of them:
We met up with Anna – a friend of mine from Frankfurt, who just came over to Sydney a week ago – to live and study here. She joined us for a weekend trip to the Blue Mountains where we visited the Three Sisters at Echo Point in Katoomba, took the Skyway Gondola at Scenic […]
After ending our stay in Maitland (near Newcastle/Hunter Valley) with a great family BBQ at our lovely Couchsurfing hosts (unfortunately you can’t read about this in detail as the MobileMe notes synchronization decided to delete my blog post), we headed straight on for Sydney to meet up with a very good friend of ours from […]
Well…. stupid Apple-Mail-Notes-MobileMe ate my blog post after typing a few pages for about 1.5 hours! :( So for now here’s just the short list and a few pictures. A text-update might follow if I feel like it.
I bought an USB card reader that actually still can read SmartMedia cards. Here are my pics:
Last weekend we went on a 2-day “sail & snorkeling/dive the Great Barrier Reef”-cruise departing from Cairns. We originally were booked on the “Vagabond” sailing boat, which we specifically chose because it’s a sail boat and Barbara wanted to sail a bit. They promised hands-on sailing which sounded like a great opportunity for her. A […]
Jetstar managed once again to take off an hour late despite everyone being onboard on time. “Missing freight and paperwork” was the official excuse… Sound a bit like they need some thorough process optimization… Since Cairns is so close to the equator, it was already dark when we landed (7pm) – no daylight savings here. […]
Our second day in Australia started with a nice walk though the southern parts of Melbourne from Elwood towards the city. We went through Acland Street (Greetings to Tom, Anna & Otto ;) ) in St. Kilda towards the beachfront. Barbara was impressed by all those bakeries, cake shops and almost german looking butcheries. From […]
We spent the last couple of days in Auckland with our lovely “adoptive New Zealand parents”. After taking looking at the New Zealand night sky for the last time, we left Scott Road at 5am – the trip to Auckland Airport took just under an hour.
For the next few weeks, Barbara and I will be traveling in Australia. I hope to update this blog a little more often then. :) So far we had a couple of nice weeks in Auckland and Bay of Islands.
