It's been quite some time ago that I last wrote here. Access to Internet is very expensive in Australia, and I allow myself to say that they really take advantage of travellers that don't carry with them their own computers. Well, but I didn't want to tell you this primarily! I am just back from my evening walk down at the Circular Quay in Sydney, and it is my last night here in Australia. I wanted to leave a trace about this, as it marks a first section of this trip: Australia. I'd love to show you what is happening out there in the harbour: the moon is full, bright and lightening up the harbourfront, and most of all the Opera! I put a majuscule, as I feel really that she is a lady and should be treated as such. She is a majesty, particularly in the moonlight, and I am happy that this image of her in the moonlight sets the final point on my stay in Australia. I leave enriched with a bucket full of memories of a beautiful country that surprised me in many ways. It was different than expected, and during the almost 3 months that I stayed I became a fan of the relaxed way of living, of dealing with unexpected events (like natrual desasters!). I don't want to reduce the country to this, as there is much more into it that I was fortunate to experience, and for sure more to still discover. Now I am curious about New Zealand, looking forward to the nature and wildlife there (as I am a bit tired of the city life). I hope that Internet access will be less expensive there so that I can share more of my adventures with you! I am thinking a lot about all of you, and now and then I would love to be home to just have a cup of coffee with you and to talk face to face! I met lots of people, and by now means I am lonely, but home is a different thing, and friends not repleacable! All my love, I will touch base again in New Zealand!
2/17/2011
1/14/2011
Happy New Year from Exmouth (WA)
It's been almost four weeks that I last logged onto here and it doesn't really seem to be almost a month! Time just flies by, but within these four weeks a lot of things have happened: Christmas, New Year start and besides the year changes some other nature driven events that hit Australia mostly on the East Coast.
I just wanted to drop a few lines here to leave a trace about these events, before I get back into the usual writing about what is happening on my trip.
I have been thinking a lot about coincidences, the reasons why I decided to travel just three weeks on the East coast and leave it on 20th December, just in about the right time to leave the floodings behind me. So that I can call myself in an relatively secure place here on the West Coast. I recall when I planned my trip in Australia that I thought that I should just not hurry and do just part of the East coast, having in mind the places that I have been recommended to visit there. I decided to leave out Frazer Island, to take it easy and slow and therefore take a flight from Mackay around the 20th of December to go to the West Coast. It has been the right decision. I also recall a feeling about Brisbane that I also told that I wasn't much interested in. I had this feeling that it simply didn't interest me going there, that I should be better off going into the open spaces, into the country, on the ocean. Thus the West coast attracted me much more. I had to think about this this morning, and I wonder how things happend. Coincidences or not, or my sub-consciousness telling me not to go there. Maybe, probably...
I am experiencing some wild nature here as well, that is rougher than normal, having had two cyclone warnings in about three weeks. There were floodings in the Gascoyne river area here as well, damaging the North west highway which is the only one connecting the north with the south here. I was always safe, but having to stop for the roads to be repaired, seeing the Murchinson river with high water and driving through 1m high water on the road left a trace in my mind. Getting the news about the flooding of Brisbane, in Brazil, the uproar in Tunesia, the warning for Indonesia, and the fact that I am moving now in a world where all this could happen to me really changes my mind about these events.
Besides the deep thinking which is healthy in a way I wanted to wish you a Happy new year! I just hope that we'll continue to learn from these natural deseaster that surround us these days and have in the past so that the new year will become a better one for all of us! I really hope that we can do some changes in our live styles so that we can turn this development around. I have seen so many amazing things in the nature the last four weeks (that will tell in detail shortly) that we cannot loose! I would have never dreamed how it is to swim with sea lions, to have that close their eyes, that they would be wanting to play with me and somehow dance around me! I would have never dreamed to walk down a street in Australia at night with the bright stars above me and three kangoroos walking next to me. I would have never dreamed to have sea turtles underneath me, I would have never dreamed to drive in a car and have an eagle flying next me, or have a baby kangoroo in my arms. It is all out there and much more beautiful that I would have ever immagined. Seeing also the down-turns of our live styles, turtles dying out because of the plastic bags that we throw away and they eat them, it is not all romantic and beautiful. But it is very healthy to see both sides of it, the good and the bad. Again my hope is that the New Year is a good one for all of us, with health for us and everything that surrounds us. I am increasingly enjoying the travelling, and being increasingly happy to have taken the decision to come here!
I just wanted to drop a few lines here to leave a trace about these events, before I get back into the usual writing about what is happening on my trip.
I have been thinking a lot about coincidences, the reasons why I decided to travel just three weeks on the East coast and leave it on 20th December, just in about the right time to leave the floodings behind me. So that I can call myself in an relatively secure place here on the West Coast. I recall when I planned my trip in Australia that I thought that I should just not hurry and do just part of the East coast, having in mind the places that I have been recommended to visit there. I decided to leave out Frazer Island, to take it easy and slow and therefore take a flight from Mackay around the 20th of December to go to the West Coast. It has been the right decision. I also recall a feeling about Brisbane that I also told that I wasn't much interested in. I had this feeling that it simply didn't interest me going there, that I should be better off going into the open spaces, into the country, on the ocean. Thus the West coast attracted me much more. I had to think about this this morning, and I wonder how things happend. Coincidences or not, or my sub-consciousness telling me not to go there. Maybe, probably...
I am experiencing some wild nature here as well, that is rougher than normal, having had two cyclone warnings in about three weeks. There were floodings in the Gascoyne river area here as well, damaging the North west highway which is the only one connecting the north with the south here. I was always safe, but having to stop for the roads to be repaired, seeing the Murchinson river with high water and driving through 1m high water on the road left a trace in my mind. Getting the news about the flooding of Brisbane, in Brazil, the uproar in Tunesia, the warning for Indonesia, and the fact that I am moving now in a world where all this could happen to me really changes my mind about these events.
Besides the deep thinking which is healthy in a way I wanted to wish you a Happy new year! I just hope that we'll continue to learn from these natural deseaster that surround us these days and have in the past so that the new year will become a better one for all of us! I really hope that we can do some changes in our live styles so that we can turn this development around. I have seen so many amazing things in the nature the last four weeks (that will tell in detail shortly) that we cannot loose! I would have never dreamed how it is to swim with sea lions, to have that close their eyes, that they would be wanting to play with me and somehow dance around me! I would have never dreamed to walk down a street in Australia at night with the bright stars above me and three kangoroos walking next to me. I would have never dreamed to have sea turtles underneath me, I would have never dreamed to drive in a car and have an eagle flying next me, or have a baby kangoroo in my arms. It is all out there and much more beautiful that I would have ever immagined. Seeing also the down-turns of our live styles, turtles dying out because of the plastic bags that we throw away and they eat them, it is not all romantic and beautiful. But it is very healthy to see both sides of it, the good and the bad. Again my hope is that the New Year is a good one for all of us, with health for us and everything that surrounds us. I am increasingly enjoying the travelling, and being increasingly happy to have taken the decision to come here!
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