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Hi you allllll,
Damn time is going fast, i'm already here for more then one week. I really enjoy it so much...
Now we are back in Adelaide and tonight our big trip to the centre, the heart of Australia start. We have to take a Greyhoud bus (those are the travelling buses in Australia and they cross whole the country) at 6pm and we drive till 5.30am the next day. Then we have a stop in Cooper Pedy. Then the next day we travel back by bus to Alice Spring. Here we have a tour for 7 days and it could be that i don't have connection with my phone for the whole 7 days, because my operator really s..cks.
Problably we don't have internet either so we will vanish from the earth for 7days, so NO WORRIES ;-)
Okey so what did i do the last three days:
I rented a car for 3 days an drove to Melbourne to pick up my friend, Marijke. In the hostel they called my crazy because it's by highway a drive from 10h, but no worries he, i started this one tuesdaymorning around 11am. I had to wait this long because i had problems with my visa. So after a while when Marijke fixed this in Melbourne i could start driving.
In the beginning i was bloody nerveus because off the left driving. I wrote on my hand a big L from left, but after a while you get used to it.
But i did some funny things haha:-when i wanted to put my gears (learned a new word here) in the car, on the passengerseat, i took the wrong side, all the time...
-when i wanted to put my seatbelt on, i grabble the wrong way :-), so funny, i did this a couple of times.
-the slow vehicles has to drive on the left (totaly the other way around like in Belgium), and when you want to pass an other vehicles you have to do this from the right...so strange feeling, but you get used to it
-on the way to Melbourne you have so many different parrots, the small ones, different colours..we only see them in the zoo...
-oh yeah, the car was an automatic, luckily mummy Smet in California learned me how i had to drive this one. But still i needed 30minutes to figure it out how to use it. Because this systems was on the steeringwheel
- So, i left Adelaide at 11am and arrived in Melbourne at 7.30pm, i changed from state.
Adelaide is in the state 'South-Australia' and Melbourne is in the state 'Victoria', they have 30minutes time different.
Adelaide is in the state 'South-Australia' and Melbourne is in the state 'Victoria', they have 30minutes time different.
I was lucky that i could stay over with a friend , Charlie, from Marijke in Melbourne...So thanks Charlie, i had the best bed and the best shower ever ;-)
In the evening we went to a bbQ party and around 2am we went to sleep.
NEXT MORNING:
Next morning we left for the ocean beach. First we went to the centre of Melbourne to meet a friend Matthias. We parked our car in a parkingplace under the ground and when we came back we payed 33dollars....F...ck, this was sooooooo expensive if we just knew ;-)
Then our journey started to the Great ocean road. This one in a road on the coast and it s 300km long.
We passed by beautiful beaches and of course the most famous rocks, the 12 apostels.
When we arrived the 12 apostels, sunset started and it was getting dark.
The aussies adviced us not to drive in the dark because of jumping kangeroos. But still we decided to give it a try because we wanted to see a small piece of the Grampians Natural Park the next day. We only had one more day.
So, we still drove on the highway for 2 more hours and then we went in the national park on safari :-)...keep your eyes open for jumping kangaroos or Wallybies ;-0
Around 10pm we arrived our hostels so tired of all the concentrating, but we didn't bump into any animal.
During our trip we saw also a lot of wildlive like Koala's.
The next day our tour started into the Grampians, but unfortunately we had some fog.
But the Mc Kenzie waterfalls were really beautiful...
But the Mc Kenzie waterfalls were really beautiful...
After visiting the falls, we still had to drive for a couple of hours to Adelaide.
We arrived around 9pm, opened a good bottle of wine ;-), that's live...
On the road to Adelaide we had some discussions, who has the answer?
- How does a waterfall start? I mean the level difference?
- If you're in the plane and you go to the toilet, what happens with this? :-), i thougt it would leave the plane right away,but Marijke said that this change in ice cubes hahaha
-How could you see the difference between a male kangaroo and female kangaroo?
Oh yeah, and a bottle of coke,here it isn't 500ml but 600ml
big huggggggggggggggg
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