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Creepy Crawlies – Part III

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

You didn’t think there were more? Well….

Darwin & Litchfield National Park

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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 […]

Barossa Valley & Adelaide (pics)

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

Here are the pictures that I didn’t upload with my last post.

Barossa Valley & Adelaide

(Saved in Australia, Travel )

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), […]

Melbourne – Wellington • return please

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We’ve been back to Wellington this week. It was fun to stay in our old flat – this time in the guest-room, as Tina – a sailing mate of Babs – moved in back in December. It was good to catch up with everyone even though I’ve been working for the week and some of […]

Marlo and back to Melbourne

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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 […]

Creepy Crawlies – Part II

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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:

Princes Highway & Canberra

(Saved in photography, Travel )

After leaving Sydney we made our way down south on the Princes Highway. It’s the coastal highway going from Sydney to Melbourne. It takes much longer than the direct route, but it offers stunning views and sleepy little villages.

The Blue Mountains

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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 […]

Sydney

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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 […]

Brisbane, Gold Coast and Pacific Highway

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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.

Great Barrier Reef Underwater Pics

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

I bought an USB card reader that actually still can read SmartMedia cards. Here are my pics:

Sailing… – or not! :(

(Saved in Australia, photography, Travel )

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 […]

Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef

(Saved in Australia, Travel )

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. […]

Melbourne (cont.)

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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 […]