John's adventure
John, our lovely host here in Airlie Beach, took us for a sailing adventure around the Whitsunday Islands on his vessel! If you've never heard of the Whitsunday's before, please Google some images right now! It's the paradise islands.
We have during this weekend lived on this wonderful vessel:
Pretty sweet couchsurfing, right? We were all keen to help with the sails:
But as soon as we got the sails and the wind the autopilot took over and we could concentrate on other stuff, like sunbathing:
or swimming:
We also did some spectacular snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. Amazing!
Mother Nature gave us an unbelievable Saturday night show over Whitehaven beach:
Dazza on Bazza
For you who wonder over the post with the cane toads, watch this:
It will give you some beautiful examples of the Aussie-slang but also their culture...
We're now in Airlie Beach with John who plan to take us for a little adventure this weekend. But if he succeed we let you know.
Hitch-hiking
It's really simple:
Person 1 plan to travel from A to B and have a car with spare seats.
Person 2 plan to travel from A to B but don't have a car.
If these people help each other both of them would make it to B. However, if they don't, well then only person 1 makes it to B.
But that is only if person 2 don't take a bus, like we will tonight! We'll take our first over-night bus for this trip from Agnes Water all the way up to Airlie Beach. The reason? We just can't waste a sunny day by hitch-hiking if we can travel by night and lay at the beach all day!
Mega post
We have stayed with Emmie in Brisbane during the past week, visit her family's holiday house on Straddie island and then stayed with James in Hervey Bay. We have been out of internet connection during this time but we're now with Anthony (aka T-bone) and he gave us some wifi to upload some pictures with!
Chaos at O'reillys birdpark:
Great fun with the wild parrots:
On Straddie Island's sand-dunes with Emmie:
It was hard to take pictures by night but we tried to capture the moment when we fed the two wild dolphins in the moonlight:
These pictures are from yesterday at the pool:
Relax mate!
We're having 30C in the shade today in Hervey Bay. We just been at the pool most of the day. Since there's only four weeks left of our Australian trip have we decided to cover as many beach-days as possible. But with 30C in the shade we were the 1 min walk to the pool a more tempting alternative. But we were at the beach yesterday, when the temperature also was 30C... in the shade. It is pretty hot, but nice. But I have to finish this now since I wanna buy a cold drink before we go out in the 30C.
Back in Australia
We had a spa-night yesterday with Will and his inflatable spa-pool with 35C water, in his garage...
But now we're back in Australia, in Brisbane with Emmie, finally! However, the "New Zealand-detour" was one of our best decisions on this trip. Having a break from the Aussie-trip and see all those beautiful mountains really gave us a energy boost to explore the Queensland coast from now on. But that have to wait 'til tomorrow, we'
re off to bed...
Thanks
We're in expensive Queenstown. We can afford to hang out in the park and recover from the cold that our beloved friend gave us... so that's all we do.
Thanks Linus!
Thanks Linus!
Playing farmers
The four-wheels adventure got cancelled due to high winds this morning. However, we got another adventure. The mission was to get John & Heather's lamb into a paddock in front of the house. So we got to see John work with his six farm-dogs, collect the herd from the hill, manage them through all the gates and get them where we needed them! Amazing work!
This is yesterdays sunset:
Me as a farmer, very busy with work...
Richard, John and all the dogs.
John also tried some fishing today
Burkes Pass
We watched the sunset from John & Heather's hill tonight. Tomorrow we're off for a 4-wheel drive adventure!
Stressful road-trip to the South
We have now relocated another motor-home, this time from Wellington to Christchurch and we only had 2 days (1 night) to do it. It was a bit stressful to be honest. It became even more stressful when we decided to not stay in Christchurch for last night so instead hitched all the way to Burkes Pass in the afternoon, which we managed to do safely.
We're especially grateful for the help we got from Anna, our last lift. Anna first told us that she never picked up hitch-hikers before and then 10 minutes later offered us an extended lift all the way to Burkes Pass plus dinner with her! Amazing. We hope to see her for Midsummer in Sweden!
This is our camping night:
The Weta Cave
We visit the Weta cave yesterday and now understand how much creativity that is brought to the film industry from Wellington. Check out the company's website here:
http://www.wetafx.co.nz/
Also, if you want to call us, think about the 12 hours time-difference, cause we do sleep from time to time...
