more sydney

okay...

i spent the 23th and the 24th mainly at this house in kettering (the town south of horbarth where i was living at this guys place who was quite nice, but never home, so i was there basically alone the whole time)... christmas eve was a bit lonely but didn't feel to depressing since i wasn't in christmas mood anywas... spent my days with reading (Great Expectations by Charles Dickins), eating, sleeping... which was actually quite nice since i really needed to relax a bit...

i'm in sydney now since yesterday... shanti whom i'm sharing a room with, also arrived today, as well as some other exile-adelaidians (Elaine, Giselle) whom i didn't meet yet though... all in all i think i'm going to have some quite exciting days...

The place that i'm staying at is quite nice... private home WITH A TRAMPOLIN! JIPEE!.. big house.. dog & cat (the dog is ok somehow for a dog...) no couchsurfing though, this time i have to pay :( still quite a reasonable price though :) dunno what i'm doing after that... gonna talk to a few people first what they are doing..

p.s.: the (she-)dog seems to passionately practice auto-cunilingus quite regularly...

Sydney

So! arrived in sydney yesterday! in contrast to tasmania it's nice and warm here :) hope i'll manage to go to the beach tomorrow or something... feeling a bit sick at the moment... gonna write more later...

sooo... at the moment i'm sitting at a couchsurfing host a bit south of horbath (i actually got 2 couchsurfing hosts here.. the one i'm staying this night at and the one that i stayed the last night at and will continue to stay at tomorrow... confused?)
there are also 2 people from germany and one canadian here... kinda crowded :) the 2 germans just came from the overland track (a 5 day walking track trough the tasmanian rainforest... but with huts on the way and stuff... not toooo advanterous i guess when the weather is nice...)

but i think i'll rather write about my last week first..

people:

JACK: Originaly from england, traveled the whole world (complete with tracking trough south america and the himalayas, and visiting his favourite yogi at india) until he found his girl in tasmania where he then settled down and started his vegetable farm.. he's also teaching yoga but since st marys is a 600 people town his classes are rather small one could say... (1-3 people at the moment it seams..)

LIZ: Jacks partner... makes fudge (chocolate+milk+falvour) and wraps it up with a cool vacouumizer machine thingy... in contrast to jack she has left tasmania only once... for thailand.. last christmas... pitfully my camera didn't catch a photo of her :(


IAN: Professioanl Wwoofer.. despite dooing nothing except wwoofing the last 2 years (and having wwoofed intensively for 6 years before that) he didn't ger around much... i think tasmania was the furthest his travels took him... he stayed around his home city before that (newcastle)

i mainly spent my time cutting down Bracken Fern and collecting rasbarries... and organizing my travels and stuff.. climbed a few hills (okay... one hill) and so on... was a nice stay.. well...

When I left, i first hitchhiked to Bicheno (with a nice guy.. coleminer... with "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles...) which is a small and nice seaside town.. and continued the next day to coles bay / freycinet national park which was also quite okay.. nothing much interessting to tell you but there though...

actually i'm also not really in the mood for writing anymore ;)

well a bit about my situation here though:

im staying at some 60+ year old man's place 30km sotuh of horbat (tasmanias captial city), except for tonight where i'm staying at a married couple's (with 6 children!) place who also host 3 other couchsurfers this night... very nice place and very nice people..
the old man is also quite an interessting fellow... his house looks a bit like a workshop... his yard is full of timber (he's a hobby woodworker)... he's planning on moving in with his fiance (whome he'll mary in a few months) though and will use the house as wood storage then..

oh and he's got 2 sheep and one of those llama like things :)

At the mountains of madness..

soo, just came back from yoga lesson (more an that later...) and now i can write more freely :) People were already sleeping here yesterday so i didn't want to wake them up.. i type rather loudly as some of you might know ;)

My final day at cradle mountain was suprisingly sunny :) took a walk around lake dove and a bit trough cradle valley.. very lovely place.. didn't have to pay the entry fee (you have to pay entry fees for all tasmanien national parks) since it was the 25th aniversary of the areas declaration as world heritage area :)..

at 3pm i catched a bus to launceston, which is quite a nice town.. apearently there was an elton john concert there that night which could be heared troughout the whole city and kinda kept me from sleeping.. very anoying since i had to catch a bus at 8:30 the following morning 8[

well, now im at st marrys at my farm, the work is not to hard and i only work 4 hours each day.. people are nice.. a second wwoofer is also here (and australien guy who spent his last 2 years just on wwoofing)... one of the farmguys is yoga teacher and i enjoyed my first free yoga lesson today <8]>

my new home :)

Hole 'n the sky

Heyyy... gotta keept it short

i'm at the farm now, its very lovely here, got internet access... just dial up though :( and i dug hole! more soon

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Cold and Wet

my current residence

hi guys :) at the moment im sitting at some internet-terminalish thing close to the cradle mountain national park... . Vegetation-type here would be temperate rain forest.. that's kinda how it is here: forestish, temperate (meaning "cold" in this connection) and constantly raining since i arrived here yesterday morning... at least i got a nice hut and am not dependent on my 15$ tent... the woods are beautifull though.. everything is full of green, blue, orange and yellowish lichens (z.d. Flechten) as well as moss and other stuff... oh and LOTS of possums... well... needed a 6 hours drying session at a fireplace after my 3 hours walking session yesterday ... tomorrow i'll be heading of to Launceston, where i will finaly catch the bus to my farm on sunday :) yehaw!

die vertrauenswerkendste bruecke der welt

Photos!

alte posts um fotos ergaenzt! juhu! (update: even more so now)

Davenport

sooo... now in in davenport... couchsurfing wise... I will spend a day here and prolly go to cradle mountain tomorrow :), and after that directly to my farm at st marrys (where i prolly won't have internet access :( so this might be the last lines you read from me for quite a while...

huhu

sitz grad am schiff nach tasmanien und die verlangen 1 dollar fuer 4 minuten internet ! skandal!

update: oh... i promised to write in english... hmm basically was just writing from the melbourne-tasmania ferry and complaining about the pricing of the internet ;) one dollar per 4 minutes)