Hi everyone!
Thank you so much for the different replies on my blog, it’s always very nice to know that there are people actually reading what you’re writing! ;-)
It’s now Sunday evening about 22.34pm and I’m so dead but I couldn’t sleep yet! I arrived some hours ago from my trip to Kangeroo Island and this one was so great.
We left in the early morning from saterday – very early about 6.30am, and I had to get up about 5.30am – at out hostels.
First I had to make my luggage first and checked out the hostel, only for one night because tonight I’m sleeping again in the same one.
I booked the trip through an agency and the tour is especially organisated for young backpackers.
We had a group with 15people from different countries. There where Germans, people from Canada , a girl from the Netherlands (she’s really lovely! , tomorrow wer go together and walk through Adelaide), people from china (oooh no Robert, I didn’t had wine after the trip ;-) , haha, those people were pretty ok, they didn’t had bad manners!But then, now I’m sitting in ‘the living room-kitchen’ – so many again and all making disquisting noice –again, burping, slurping,….damn! )
Any way,
our group for two days
our guide and renee, the dutch girl, she s lovely, she talks and talks haha
Our guide was a really ozie – man! ;-) He was about 35years and has been travelling during 5 years in whole Australië. Now he lived in Adelaide and guiding some tours, he give surfing courses…. He loved surfing and we did get the most lovely stories about sharks, snakes,…He is a person that really grown up in the nature and knows so many things about seals, penguins, birds,…plants…incredible! We get all details.
We left Saturday morning with a little bus and we took the ferry direction Kangeroo Island.
When we get there the first thing I noticed that ‘I didn’t get any self phone contact anymore’!! Damn, haha , getting crazy! I put in my other card from Belgium and again I didn’t get any contact anymore! This was actually the first time in my live that I was without a self phone. Sometimes when I’m really getting tired off him, I just put him down, but now I didn’t have any choice ;-)
I have to admit, I put him away and after one hours I was so used to this! I loved it to loose contact with the real world. They already told me, that when I’m going to the middle of Australië that this would be the same!
Then we drove to different stops on the Island. We stopped at the most beautiful beaches ever!
If you’re interesting about the island, just put in the name in google, “kangaroo island”, you can see probably a map and some beautiful pictures.
Some information about this island:
- it’s the third largest island from Australia.
- It’s 4350 km² large
- You have two different city’s on the island.
- There living 4400 people there
Then we drove to the farm where we would sleep for one night. The farm was a bit old but very very beautiful, it was located somewhere on the south coast of the island and it was the only house in the whole environment.
You could also sleep in a swap! I try to find a picture on the internet.
It’s like a sleeping back with a matras in, you can close it all, and you have a net for insect above your head. So you’re really save for all animals. I didn’t do it yet because it was to cold but when I’m going to the middle of Australia I probably have any choice J
We are going to sleep in a swap for 5 days. Beautiful, J and the weather will be a it warmer and no rain!
(some pictures of eating and the farm)
The nearest town was … and there living 1400 people there , on the whole island there living about 4000 people.
We get our beds and the guide started the BBQ for lunch. With the whole group we started to prepare the vegetables. After dinner we drove further to the seal beach. I remember when I was visiting California there was also wildlife near the coast. Different seals where resting on the beach. In the USA you can’t get close to them, but this beach we where allowed together with a guide to get on the beach and see the sea animals from more closer. This was really one experience!
After this we went sandboarding J ! I try to put a movie from this on the blog but it’s already hard to put pictures on it.
This all happened in the Little Sahara. J if you see you pictures you know from where the name is coming.
When it starts to get a little bit more dark and damn cold we went to a bay (Hanson bay) where you can find ferry penguins, little ones!
Normally when it’s getting dark there coming out of the water and coming on shore. We didn’t so much but a few. We weren’t allowed to take pictures because the flashes would blind them. We saw little ones and bigger ones, this type of penguins isn’t really big. I bought a book with all the local animals in it and this one says that they can grow max to ….
Day one was already finished! We drove back to our farm, during the driving we did a little bit of safari and tried to found wildlife near the road. We actually had a lot off luck! We did see possums, wallyby (a smaller version of a kangaroo), the bigger kangaroo.
During the evening we maked some meals, some fire and just hang out with some beer around the fire. But everyone knows that there is in the south of Australia wintertime and in the beginning I thought that they mend 20-25degrees but damn I was wrong!
It can be very cold around here and around 24pm I was so frozen that I went to bed with all my clothes on. I didn’t care, the next day I will be In the hostel washing everything! But I was freezing! ;-)
The next day we get real Australien pancakes! Delicious! Those aren’t so sweet as ours! After this we left back around 8am to continue our tour!
Oh yeah, the Australians eats vegemite with there pancakes! Jak! It ‘s something with jist (what’s the rigt English word for gist?)in it, it really smells like beer!
First we went to the beach that a couple of years ago get the name of the best and most beautiful beach of whole Australia. After that we drove further to …. National park. Here you could very good see that a couple of years ago there were very big fires! The guide was telling stories about a tour group that was lucky to get out of there and about a young man from 22years that didn’t get out it!
The fire has his positives and negatives sites. He told us that some areas are counting on natural fires every several years. Because after a fire the vegetation can grow more faster and better. The animal live is getting bigger.
Also there is one plant in Australia that grows very good after a fire and the plant is called “jakker”.
He brought us to different spots in the natural park. We went to the ….stones, the lighthouse where you also can found different seals and beautiful views! This spot has been the only one where there was a shark attack a couple of years ago. So a hint from our ozie-man ‘don’t go swimming here of surfing!’
After that we had a lunch and we drove to the north site of the island, he really want to show us that there was a big difference north and south.
Here I get the challenge to go swimming in the sea J , well, I did it!
The water was 14degrees and the air about 15 degrees! It felt wonderful! Of course in the beginning it’s bloody (hahaha, Robbert again, they use this word also here! ) cold but after that it was wonderful! The only thing I hope is that I’m not getting sick now ;-)
Okey folks, I’m going to sleep! See ya tomorrow!
Goodmorning all! I slept so bad, first off all I ‘m still having problems with the bloody jetlag because around 6am I was totally awake! Plus my roommates make so much noises when they get up around 7am and 8 am that I didn’t sleep anymore. It’s now 9am and I had a coffee already and put a laundry in!
Oh yeah, some nice things I wrote down during the trip that I really had to write on the blog:
- first off all, the Australian accent is terrible! I can’t understand a thing. For example they you the word ‘reckon’. Example: ‘I reckon that’s a bird’. It’s means : ‘I think that’s a bird’ It took a long time before I understood that! Haha
- then they also use the word ‘heaps’ it means ‘a lot’.
- Always ‘hi mate’ J great word!
- Oh yeah and the last thing:
Some mammals: I bought a really good book, because everyone is talking about animals and I can’t imagine how the look like! So now I can look it up!
Those I saw!
Possum
Common dolphin, they were jumping behind the boat when we get back to mainland!
Koala:
I only saw one and he was sitting far away in the three, they promised me when I’m getting more up north, I’m going to see some more! J
Wallyby: they are looking the same like kangeroo’s but a it smaller.
Kangaroo
Seals
I think that’s all!
Alright! Today I’m going to pay our buses and rent a car. Tomorrow morning I’m driving on the highway to Melbourne to pick up my friend and we’re driving back to Adelaide in two or three days through the Great Ocean road and Grampians national park. First I was thinking she would go better by bus but I really wanted to see this also. I would regret myself if I wouldn’t do this and just stay whole week in Adelaide.
I’m can’t see Sydney because there isn’t plenty of time but then I saw anyway the great ocean road ;-)
Big hug all!!!! It would be probably the middle of the week when I put more on my blog, and I put some more pictures on facebook!
See ya!
Thank you so much for the different replies on my blog, it’s always very nice to know that there are people actually reading what you’re writing! ;-)
It’s now Sunday evening about 22.34pm and I’m so dead but I couldn’t sleep yet! I arrived some hours ago from my trip to Kangeroo Island and this one was so great.
We left in the early morning from saterday – very early about 6.30am, and I had to get up about 5.30am – at out hostels.
First I had to make my luggage first and checked out the hostel, only for one night because tonight I’m sleeping again in the same one.
I booked the trip through an agency and the tour is especially organisated for young backpackers.
We had a group with 15people from different countries. There where Germans, people from Canada , a girl from the Netherlands (she’s really lovely! , tomorrow wer go together and walk through Adelaide), people from china (oooh no Robert, I didn’t had wine after the trip ;-) , haha, those people were pretty ok, they didn’t had bad manners!But then, now I’m sitting in ‘the living room-kitchen’ – so many again and all making disquisting noice –again, burping, slurping,….damn! )
Any way,
our group for two days
our guide and renee, the dutch girl, she s lovely, she talks and talks hahaOur guide was a really ozie – man! ;-) He was about 35years and has been travelling during 5 years in whole Australië. Now he lived in Adelaide and guiding some tours, he give surfing courses…. He loved surfing and we did get the most lovely stories about sharks, snakes,…He is a person that really grown up in the nature and knows so many things about seals, penguins, birds,…plants…incredible! We get all details.
We left Saturday morning with a little bus and we took the ferry direction Kangeroo Island.
When we get there the first thing I noticed that ‘I didn’t get any self phone contact anymore’!! Damn, haha , getting crazy! I put in my other card from Belgium and again I didn’t get any contact anymore! This was actually the first time in my live that I was without a self phone. Sometimes when I’m really getting tired off him, I just put him down, but now I didn’t have any choice ;-)
I have to admit, I put him away and after one hours I was so used to this! I loved it to loose contact with the real world. They already told me, that when I’m going to the middle of Australië that this would be the same!
Then we drove to different stops on the Island. We stopped at the most beautiful beaches ever!
If you’re interesting about the island, just put in the name in google, “kangaroo island”, you can see probably a map and some beautiful pictures.
Some information about this island:
- it’s the third largest island from Australia.
- It’s 4350 km² large
- You have two different city’s on the island.
- There living 4400 people there
Then we drove to the farm where we would sleep for one night. The farm was a bit old but very very beautiful, it was located somewhere on the south coast of the island and it was the only house in the whole environment.
You could also sleep in a swap! I try to find a picture on the internet.
It’s like a sleeping back with a matras in, you can close it all, and you have a net for insect above your head. So you’re really save for all animals. I didn’t do it yet because it was to cold but when I’m going to the middle of Australia I probably have any choice J
We are going to sleep in a swap for 5 days. Beautiful, J and the weather will be a it warmer and no rain!
(some pictures of eating and the farm)
The nearest town was … and there living 1400 people there , on the whole island there living about 4000 people.
We get our beds and the guide started the BBQ for lunch. With the whole group we started to prepare the vegetables. After dinner we drove further to the seal beach. I remember when I was visiting California there was also wildlife near the coast. Different seals where resting on the beach. In the USA you can’t get close to them, but this beach we where allowed together with a guide to get on the beach and see the sea animals from more closer. This was really one experience!
After this we went sandboarding J ! I try to put a movie from this on the blog but it’s already hard to put pictures on it.
This all happened in the Little Sahara. J if you see you pictures you know from where the name is coming.
When it starts to get a little bit more dark and damn cold we went to a bay (Hanson bay) where you can find ferry penguins, little ones!
Normally when it’s getting dark there coming out of the water and coming on shore. We didn’t so much but a few. We weren’t allowed to take pictures because the flashes would blind them. We saw little ones and bigger ones, this type of penguins isn’t really big. I bought a book with all the local animals in it and this one says that they can grow max to ….
Day one was already finished! We drove back to our farm, during the driving we did a little bit of safari and tried to found wildlife near the road. We actually had a lot off luck! We did see possums, wallyby (a smaller version of a kangaroo), the bigger kangaroo.
During the evening we maked some meals, some fire and just hang out with some beer around the fire. But everyone knows that there is in the south of Australia wintertime and in the beginning I thought that they mend 20-25degrees but damn I was wrong!
It can be very cold around here and around 24pm I was so frozen that I went to bed with all my clothes on. I didn’t care, the next day I will be In the hostel washing everything! But I was freezing! ;-)
The next day we get real Australien pancakes! Delicious! Those aren’t so sweet as ours! After this we left back around 8am to continue our tour!
Oh yeah, the Australians eats vegemite with there pancakes! Jak! It ‘s something with jist (what’s the rigt English word for gist?)in it, it really smells like beer!
First we went to the beach that a couple of years ago get the name of the best and most beautiful beach of whole Australia. After that we drove further to …. National park. Here you could very good see that a couple of years ago there were very big fires! The guide was telling stories about a tour group that was lucky to get out of there and about a young man from 22years that didn’t get out it!
The fire has his positives and negatives sites. He told us that some areas are counting on natural fires every several years. Because after a fire the vegetation can grow more faster and better. The animal live is getting bigger.
Also there is one plant in Australia that grows very good after a fire and the plant is called “jakker”.
He brought us to different spots in the natural park. We went to the ….stones, the lighthouse where you also can found different seals and beautiful views! This spot has been the only one where there was a shark attack a couple of years ago. So a hint from our ozie-man ‘don’t go swimming here of surfing!’
After that we had a lunch and we drove to the north site of the island, he really want to show us that there was a big difference north and south.
Here I get the challenge to go swimming in the sea J , well, I did it!
The water was 14degrees and the air about 15 degrees! It felt wonderful! Of course in the beginning it’s bloody (hahaha, Robbert again, they use this word also here! ) cold but after that it was wonderful! The only thing I hope is that I’m not getting sick now ;-)
Okey folks, I’m going to sleep! See ya tomorrow!
Goodmorning all! I slept so bad, first off all I ‘m still having problems with the bloody jetlag because around 6am I was totally awake! Plus my roommates make so much noises when they get up around 7am and 8 am that I didn’t sleep anymore. It’s now 9am and I had a coffee already and put a laundry in!
Oh yeah, some nice things I wrote down during the trip that I really had to write on the blog:
- first off all, the Australian accent is terrible! I can’t understand a thing. For example they you the word ‘reckon’. Example: ‘I reckon that’s a bird’. It’s means : ‘I think that’s a bird’ It took a long time before I understood that! Haha
- then they also use the word ‘heaps’ it means ‘a lot’.
- Always ‘hi mate’ J great word!
- Oh yeah and the last thing:
Some mammals: I bought a really good book, because everyone is talking about animals and I can’t imagine how the look like! So now I can look it up!
Those I saw!
Possum
Common dolphin, they were jumping behind the boat when we get back to mainland!
Koala:
I only saw one and he was sitting far away in the three, they promised me when I’m getting more up north, I’m going to see some more! J
Wallyby: they are looking the same like kangeroo’s but a it smaller.
Kangaroo
Seals
I think that’s all!
Alright! Today I’m going to pay our buses and rent a car. Tomorrow morning I’m driving on the highway to Melbourne to pick up my friend and we’re driving back to Adelaide in two or three days through the Great Ocean road and Grampians national park. First I was thinking she would go better by bus but I really wanted to see this also. I would regret myself if I wouldn’t do this and just stay whole week in Adelaide.
I’m can’t see Sydney because there isn’t plenty of time but then I saw anyway the great ocean road ;-)
Big hug all!!!! It would be probably the middle of the week when I put more on my blog, and I put some more pictures on facebook!
See ya!
