Dienstag, 19. februar 2008
Hi, deutsche Version folgt spaeter!! sorry, aber muss gleich zur Uni, hab nur die englische geschafft..;-)
G'Day Mates and Sheilas,
just returned from my first trip in Oz, we've been to a place called Crescent Head for a surftrip with a private company, was gorgeous! Started Sunday early morning (Dep at Uni was at 9am, so I got up to pack and go there all the way at 5.45am..pretty tough), was a little bit shocked when that guy told us we're going to a 6 hour drive to our destination, well but guess that's just Australia, everything's just bigger than home..;-) after like 1 hour we stopped at a Reptile Park, was really great, made some pics there with Kangaroos and Koalas (Kangaroos were just hopping around in the whole park, whenever you passed by one zou just stopped and fed him/her, sooo cute when they were holding with their hands onto mine and then licked the crops out of my hand...I love them!! Koalas rather suck, I mean they are also really cute, they just do nothing at all...18 hours sleep a day, 6 hours eating...great life..;-) So it wasn't really a Reptile park alone, there were also Dingoes, Birds, Wombats, Wallabies, Tasmanian Devils (Cute!!!) and Flying Foxes, but of course also Alligators (touched a Baby one), Huge Turtles, a big Salty (deadly crocodiles, the ones that are also called Maneaters, really impressive coz even though you knew there was one in the bassin, you still couldn't see it....just if you really look close..so in nature, no chance!, Snakes (big Python, also the deadly Vaipan) and...Spiders...
there was a whole Spider world, and what thought lil'Max? let's go there, maybe I can cure my Arachnophobia with watching them...and what can I say..in the end I just ran out of this fucking room, all these spiders, albeit behind glass and in boxes, just scare me sooooo much...wolf and huntsmen spider (I hope i got the names right) are just enormously big, all the others deadly...one of them causes like a tumor on your skin if it bites you...oh my god....what will I do when I see them in real life???
anyways, after that we went on towards Brisbane, after 5 more hours in the bus we finally left the Highway and drove through Crescend Head where we had to buy booze for two days, i think we bought in the end 80 cans of beer plus wine (group of 6 of us..) which was hardly enough for 2 days..
then, on "roads" which were rather muddy paths throughout the forest, we went on to the surfcamp, really beautiful in the middle of nowhere...after that, we just had some dinner and went to bed then (after a few drinks at the Humpy, a place at the beach with campfire..lovely!). #1 rule of the camp: Stay cool and have fun!!
Next morning, getting up at 7am!!! to go Surfing, the guys there (live at this camp, surfing everyday, last sober day...hmmm...2001?) taught us some security lessons, especially how to handle the ribs and different types of waves, then some theoretical stuff -how to get on the board- and then we went to the beach...a perfect lagune, about 2km long, white sand, and no one else besides us..perfect!!! so the whole day just surfing, was a bit tough to stand (I think i swallowed like 2l of water at least), but also stood for a few times on the board,really cool! so we just chilled the whole day, surfed a little bit or enjoyed the sun (25degrees)...after dinner some party again, all the americans there (all around 19-21) were obviously happy to be allowed to drink, one of them just sat at the fire and drank a bottle of Jack Daniels every nite on his own and got really wasted, well, I wasn't sober too but still in stable condition..;-) next morning then again getting up at 7, some more hours surfing and then heading back home at 12. arrived in sydney at 8pm, and was really tired, all my muscles hurt, those of you who joined the adidas wakeboard trip know what I mean!
so, now my first day at school, some infos and general overview, starting at 11am, so I gotta go, catch up later!
2 more great expressions from that trip:
- Beach is pronounced Baich here..sounds cool
- Good on ya...for "well done", everybody keeps saying that, also great..
have a good one Dudes,
cheers
Max
G'Day Mates and Sheilas,
just returned from my first trip in Oz, we've been to a place called Crescent Head for a surftrip with a private company, was gorgeous! Started Sunday early morning (Dep at Uni was at 9am, so I got up to pack and go there all the way at 5.45am..pretty tough), was a little bit shocked when that guy told us we're going to a 6 hour drive to our destination, well but guess that's just Australia, everything's just bigger than home..;-) after like 1 hour we stopped at a Reptile Park, was really great, made some pics there with Kangaroos and Koalas (Kangaroos were just hopping around in the whole park, whenever you passed by one zou just stopped and fed him/her, sooo cute when they were holding with their hands onto mine and then licked the crops out of my hand...I love them!! Koalas rather suck, I mean they are also really cute, they just do nothing at all...18 hours sleep a day, 6 hours eating...great life..;-) So it wasn't really a Reptile park alone, there were also Dingoes, Birds, Wombats, Wallabies, Tasmanian Devils (Cute!!!) and Flying Foxes, but of course also Alligators (touched a Baby one), Huge Turtles, a big Salty (deadly crocodiles, the ones that are also called Maneaters, really impressive coz even though you knew there was one in the bassin, you still couldn't see it....just if you really look close..so in nature, no chance!, Snakes (big Python, also the deadly Vaipan) and...Spiders...
there was a whole Spider world, and what thought lil'Max? let's go there, maybe I can cure my Arachnophobia with watching them...and what can I say..in the end I just ran out of this fucking room, all these spiders, albeit behind glass and in boxes, just scare me sooooo much...wolf and huntsmen spider (I hope i got the names right) are just enormously big, all the others deadly...one of them causes like a tumor on your skin if it bites you...oh my god....what will I do when I see them in real life???
anyways, after that we went on towards Brisbane, after 5 more hours in the bus we finally left the Highway and drove through Crescend Head where we had to buy booze for two days, i think we bought in the end 80 cans of beer plus wine (group of 6 of us..) which was hardly enough for 2 days..
then, on "roads" which were rather muddy paths throughout the forest, we went on to the surfcamp, really beautiful in the middle of nowhere...after that, we just had some dinner and went to bed then (after a few drinks at the Humpy, a place at the beach with campfire..lovely!). #1 rule of the camp: Stay cool and have fun!!
Next morning, getting up at 7am!!! to go Surfing, the guys there (live at this camp, surfing everyday, last sober day...hmmm...2001?) taught us some security lessons, especially how to handle the ribs and different types of waves, then some theoretical stuff -how to get on the board- and then we went to the beach...a perfect lagune, about 2km long, white sand, and no one else besides us..perfect!!! so the whole day just surfing, was a bit tough to stand (I think i swallowed like 2l of water at least), but also stood for a few times on the board,really cool! so we just chilled the whole day, surfed a little bit or enjoyed the sun (25degrees)...after dinner some party again, all the americans there (all around 19-21) were obviously happy to be allowed to drink, one of them just sat at the fire and drank a bottle of Jack Daniels every nite on his own and got really wasted, well, I wasn't sober too but still in stable condition..;-) next morning then again getting up at 7, some more hours surfing and then heading back home at 12. arrived in sydney at 8pm, and was really tired, all my muscles hurt, those of you who joined the adidas wakeboard trip know what I mean!
so, now my first day at school, some infos and general overview, starting at 11am, so I gotta go, catch up later!
2 more great expressions from that trip:
- Beach is pronounced Baich here..sounds cool
- Good on ya...for "well done", everybody keeps saying that, also great..
have a good one Dudes,
cheers
Max
