
Endlich - Photoshop ist wieder auf meinem pc installiert und somit gibt es wieder schoene neue Bilder. Teilweise noch aus Tasmanien aber auch ganz neue aus Kangaroo Island. Einfach auf den Fotolink klicken....
(Ours)
Here's a little video of our holidays on Kangaroo Island. We were there for only a few days, you can see our cottage, the seals, Remarkable Rocks, and some other stuff.
Should have stayed longer, and skipped our trip to Adelaide after that, but nobody told us that Adelaide isn't really that exciting...
Anyway, here we are, back at work in Melbourne.
... während der arme Peter um 8 Uhr aufstehen musste um einen langweiligen Tag auf Arbeit zu verbringen konnte ich noch weiter schlafen, denn ich habe firmenbedingten Urlaub. Herrlich. Endlich mal ein paar Tage allein daheim, nur ich und mein neuer iPod und meine neue Festplatte und Gigamäßig viel Musik die hin und her geschoben werden möchte. So macht das Leben spaß. Am kommenden Montag heißt es dann aber auch wieder für mich früh aufstehen und




We, and even more so our shoes, lost. But only the first round. Lost
the battle, but won't lose the war, as they say. We won't be
defeated, at least I hope so. We can't really afford to. But let's
start at the beginning.
Once upon a time, when Maren wrote our last blog entry, we were in
beautiful Bundaberg (Bundy to it's friends, i.e. not us). Since then
we've been at quite few other places, which you can see if you click
on the new link in the sidebar. All kinds of animals, from Koalas to
Whales, But still haven't made further than Brisbane. Two months in
Queensland, so far. Most imoprtantly, we visited Sonia and Lee, two
friends of mine from college times, who now live in Noosa, and put us
up in their own bedroom and moved to the lounge. Sometimes Ozzies are
just too nice to be true. Finally we were able to show off our
surfing skills, on a borrowed board, which means that now we have to
earn some money to buy our own.
After hanging around for weeks, without doing much travelling, we
decided it was time to find some work. Easier said than done, as it
turned out. After having been told that there were "heaps of jobs"
in Bundaberg (quote Shane, who's number we were given by the
government's "harvest trail" hotline), we rode a few hundred Ks back
up the coast, and waited around in the sun on our campsite, made
loads of phone call. For some strange reason, all these jobs had
suddenly disappeared, the only thing being on offer was working in an
abattoir, skinning and gutting and working towards a long-term
career, which we politely declined.
Finally we were offered a day of picking zucchini on a small farm, in
order to see whether we are made of the stuff that makes a good picker.
Despite all our enthusiasm, apparently we are not.
After about 5 hours the so far unfriendliest Australian I have met
dimissed Slow-Hand Pete and Bud-Slicer Maren (aka The Blind-Arrow)
without even looking at us. Some of the others we were working with
had been growing up picking z... and were for some obscure reason
faster and more careful not destroying the newly growing fruits. On
the positive side our back muscles are now much stronger, the cuts
and spots on our arms have stopped itching and have almost healed,
and the shoes are almost as clean as they were before that fateful
encounter with the evil Z.
Anyways, that made us decide to leave that nasty village and move on
to bigger and better, namely Brisbane (Brisy, BrisVegas...don't ask
me why), and find something that we do well. Sitting in front of the
computer or answering the phone. Preferably something unskilled. What
we do best.
So here we are, 4 km from the city centre on a campsite with WLAN
(for 11 $/day!!!), finally civilisation, very exciting, suddenly
people don't wear muddy boots and crocodile dundee hats....at least
not all of them - that film was my first impression of Australia, I
hope I'm not the only one, and so far it kind of proved to be a true
representation, only it never mentioned the Japanese tourists. I
guess that means it's time to leave Queensland behind. Or stay for a
few weeks of hard and honest work, slumped in a chair in front of a
screen, somewhere in a basement, just like the good ol' times. We'll
see.
...what will happen next? Will our heroes find what they desire? Will
the car battery finally run empty? And are thongs really flip flops,
or was it all a cruel joke?
TBC...
Obwohl wir bislang nur einen sehr kleinen Teil des weiten Landes gesehen haben - Cape Tribulation bis Airlie Beach mit Abstechern ins Hinterland - ist die Menge der bislang gesichteten und gehörten Tiere nicht gerade unbeachtlich. Mein Favorit an besonders beeindruckenden Tieren sind noch immer die Wale. Auf dem Weg zu unserem ersten Tauchriff konnten wir vom Segelboot aus zwei Wale in der Ferne beobachten. Zwar haben wir gehofft sie beim Tauchgang noch einmal anzutreffen, doch da zeigten sich uns nur Schildkröten, Blaupunktrochen und ein paar andere große Fische. Alles in allem fand ich aber bislang das Rote Meer zum tauchen interessanter. Possierlich und schoen anzusehen sind Kängeruhs, aber nur wenn sie leben und friedlich sind. Bislang waren jedoch die meisten von uns gesichteten Kängeruhs leider tot am Straßenrand.
