And came to a positive result....
I now have a girlfriend Down Under ;-)
Poor cat, she has so much hair, it must be horrible for her with temperatures hitting 43 degrees in the last and also coming days.
On saturday I went with my aunties to an area called Great Ocean Road. These impressive rocks belong to a group called "12 Apostels". You drive there at a road close to the ocean with some spectacular views.
This picture was a little faked, I was not the only one here at that beach. The water was quite cold, 20 degrees max.
Some other nice beach, this time really without people...
Many beaches have some tricky and very dangerous currents, therefore take care and go only swimming with lifesavers close. The Australian Lifesavers are very famous, here they got rewarded with a nice memorial ...
On Sunday we went to Otway fly tree top walk. Its a walking way which raises up to 47m high into the rain forest with very high trees. You can see the forest from quite a very different view. Even everything is tightly connected with the ground, when it has even a light breeze everything will be swinging. Here you see the highest observation tower.
In the afternoon we went back, I decided to do some diving here, so I stayed overnight in Queenscliff at a dive school. Queenscliff is located at the entry to the bay of Melbourne.
On Monday did 2 dives, this time with my new equipment. The water was quite cold, 18-20degrees. This was quite challenging compared to Thailand, where I had 28 degree water.
First dive was with a Guide, whom I had to pay extra. The underwater flora and fauna there was totally different than Thailand, nice big sea-leaves swinging with the current.
My second dive was a "Drift Dive". All Divers are holding a rope, which is connected to a surface marker buoy. We did not swim, instead we let ourself drift with the strong current and watched the scenery flying bye. The disadvantage of not doing anything was, that I was freezing a little. We passed quite a distance heading to the local light tower. At dawn I was able to take a pic of it with a nice sunset.
On Monday i was running out of money, the ATMs not accepting my card and I was a little worried, if I have enough left to pay the bus and train back to Melbourne. I even skipped lunch to safe my money for my trip back home. I made it with some luck, one of the divers gave me a lift and dropped me in Melbourne.
The Aussies are nice people, sometimes a little strange/different:
They love abbreviations: for example they hate Mossis... aka Mosquitos
They love Veggi... aka Vegemite, something which smells and tastes like Maggi and is used as a bread parfait. We make soup out of it ;-) They are eating it even for breakfast.
They love strange sport games, for example Cricket. Do you know that a cricket match lasts for 5 days? It begins in the morning and breaks only for lunch and tea.... So if you love soccer and your friend/partner/wife complains that you are wasting too much time watching it.. tell her that you think about switching to Cricket and I am sure, she will stop complaining about your hobby any more ...
On Tuesday I did nothing, just relaxing....
On Wednesday went into Melbourne, I had to bring my bags into town for repair.
