Killing spree!

Some people might feel offended by the upcoming series of me discovering the wildlife and rural side of Australia. Some posts content pictures of unusual or offending activities for western people who lives in a city and always have lived in a city. But in some parts of this country these activities are necessary to survive. Sometimes to protect their main income source and sometimes as a source of food. These animals have had a better life as those you are consuming.

99,7% pure white sand

My beloved Christina and I flew from Melbourne to Prosperpine to visit The Whitsunday islands. We landed on the smallest airport I have ever seen, they only had one lane to land and take off from, the waiting room was half outside half inside and had nothing to do with the standard security you normally hate at other airports. We had to pick up the luggage direct from a trailer parked next to the plane.
While Victoria suffered from bush fires and drought the opposite was the case in Queensland. they struggled against heavy rainfall and flooding (the fruit is gonna be expensive next year and less jobs for backpackers or locals without money).
The contrast was huge, from a dry yellow environment into a fresh sharp green one. We planned a sailing trip to the Whitsunday islands, the only reason to come here.
the Whitsunday islands is what you see in your imagination when you think about a tropical island. we went on a trip for 3 nights on a big dutch (of course) 100 year old sailing boot. This was one of the best experiences of my life. floating around, visit the most beautiful beach, walk over the finest sand (only available in 3 places on the world), do a bit of bush walking and see scary big green ants., spiders and very very very good looking butterflies. Snorkel with huge turtles, watch the dolphins and other beautiful sea creatures such as coral, clownfish or squids, get stung by jellyfishes (twice!!), watch amazing sunsets and drink some beer with all the nice people aboard.
of the 74 islands only 8 are inhabited. some are still for sale so if you have a bit bag of money but you don’t know what to do with it, I’ll come visit you…
Pictures are coming..I am on the slowest internet connection since the 16k6 modem..

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you can get it at only 3 places in the world one of them is the Whitsunday islands. (forgot  the other two) 99,7% silica is completely different as any other sand you may have seen or touched.

The great ocean road and Melbourne

It is one of Australia’s great scenic coastline drives, amazing breathtaking views and surroundings, the 12 apostles, the London bridge which isn´t a bridge anymore and much much more. You can see koala´s getting high on eucalyptus, wild fox´ stealing your apples, kangaroos and wallabies hopping around. it is a great road, the great ocean road. I just can´t get enough of the beautiful colored sea and one of my favourite things to do is watching the waves collapsing on the rocks and beaches.

I picked up Christina from the airport in Perth. We were all happy and excited. We stayed there a couple of days, went to rottnest island did some cycling, beaching(?), drinking, laying and eating. (why do woman love subway so much?) We met a really nice 40 year old asian guy who slept with us in the same hostel room. He likes to look at people with his cell phone light while they are asleep, awesome guy.

A couple of days later we flew to Melbourne and stayed with Wayne and Simone for 4 nights. they showed us Melbourne, porterhouse steaks and smoothies. Like most Australians they where sooooo friendly really helpful and we made new good friends.

Christina, who normally ONLY wants to stay in starwood hotels, had to sleep in a camper. she looked happy…..

lots of stuff

Since the last post, a lot of things happened. I still haven’t found a spare moment to write about it but the pictures are out there so go check them out.

First week in Perth

My first couchsurfing experience. for people who don’t know what it is: it can be awesome. The idea: a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit (copy pasted that one). you ask for couchsurfing permission through the internet via couchsurfing.com. So everything can happen because you don’t really know where you end up staying. I stayed at a student house on the swansea street. yes students live in houses here and not in a 12m3 room , some even  have swimmingpools in their garden. Youngy, pup and chesty are the hosts (actually only youngy but the two others are in the package included). Youngy took me too the beach for surfing lessons on my first day in australia; can tick off that box on my to do list.  we did some cricket, swimming, soccer, watched the west coast eagles lose in the football stadium, drunk some beer and a lot more. it was awesome! Youngy and his friends treated me  like they knew me more then 10 years. I came as a stranger and left as friend.

Perth is a nice place,. the city is quite new and modern. just check the pictures.  more about perth maybe later or go to wiki for more information  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia

Sheraton L&L

view from L&L's apartment

Still dazzled of  Bangkok I arrived in Singapore for a short stop. I stayed at loes & lex’ place, the parents of marloes, bram and sander. A really really REALLY good looking apartment complex waited for me on Shelford Road. Singapore is the opposite of  Bangkok; clean, structured and (looks) wealthy. the “greened up” everything with trees aside the road and a lot of parks. too bad I only stayed here for 1 night. Loes & lex are great hosts. I hope I can see them again in Singapore.

Bangkok

After a nine hour flight I arrived on BKK airport. Completely broken from the airberlin seat i tried to orientate a little. I hooked up with a german guy called Alex. We went outside and a taxi to the Bangkok city center. The taxi was BKK in a nutshell; dirty, chaotic, loud music and a big smile from the thai when eyes crossed in his over sized rear view mirror and of course a picture of the king. I didn”t plan a thing for Bangkok but after such a long flight and not being used to everything what happened around me, I regretted that a little. fortunately Alex had figured something out. we ended up in a nice block, i forgot the name, and went out for some drinks. All your sentences are overdosed if you see Bangkok for the first time. every 5 meters the smell, colors, noise and feeling is different. Streets are fully packed with food, bars, cloth and other stuff tourists use or buy. The Following days we saw some sights, ate some phad chai and drunk some tiger, leo or chang. 3 days are definitely short to see Bangkok but long enough if you come cold turkey from the Munich airport, traveling for the first time to Asia.

In & out 2

Ait definitely improved his photoshop skills (see comment “in and out”). We all know that I don’t even smoke cigarettes!!! I found the original picture! shame on you ait!

In & out

After one an half year (or more) the (N’)TACbag finally were back together again. ow yeahhh!!! Everything nice and lovely. Playing poker & Risk, drinking beer & whiskey, smoke a little and cook delicious food. same same, but different.

New CD Paul Vens "Playing in the Fields"

Paul Vens and his friends brought out a new CD this month! relaxing sunday afternoon music or some other time. I think clara has the right description for it: GOD BLESS ALL **Paul Vens and Friends** The picture of the album it\’s for me an inspiration (life/love)two words very importants for human be while stay in earth. I can see a person relax in the field (Excelente)

I#m not sure if she likes the music as well, but she is def flabbergasted about the cover.
judge by yourself and visit their website for some high quality samples: The call from inside