Sydney to Brisbane Hey hey ... From Sydney to Byron Bay I
a Frenchman (Mathieu) taken
to share fuel costs ...
First stop was Newcastle ...
nice town ... but ...
we wanted to look at two interesting things ...
appears the two were locked ... naja
We are therefore two people walked past
standing on a beach
and viewed with binoculars a
pile completely unspectacular-looking birds ...
Have they asked what they do
and it has
found that there were bird experts ...
(laaaaangweilig)
They then enthusiastically told us that the birds prepare to fly just over 20,000 miles in 3 months ... ...
making over 220 miles per day ...
what I was also impressed!
Our next stop was just 9 miles ...
a forest, in which a free
Animal Park, is
in which I all animals I've seen in the wild
one more time could see in captivity ...
But there were a few animals as
of which I did not know that it exists ...
what the matter but made it interesting!
I did later in favor of a photo
one of the 10,000 mosquitoes
can drink from me a little longer than I
permit would normally ...
next interesting Maintenance was
Forster
where we hiked up a mountain with a lookout tower
of us really
again commanded a very impressive view!
We had to then figure slowly where we spend the night ... but eat first
are gone ... Hungry Jacks!
had since I was a girl who gave us the order removed, asked
whether they know a place
where you can camp for free ...
you but knew right away nothing ...
is but a few minutes later to us at the table and has been described to us a place where the police drive
probably not long ...
I found it very nice ...
We
but then decided to go but even further
to come forward!
We have done all the 111 km further
and have a parking lot at the harbor in Port Macquarie,
stayed in the car ...
Previously, we have however looked at a couple of hours, the city
the port and a group of dolphins .
The next morning I have more chance
my first dolphin from a relatively short distance and saw
meantime, unfortunately, only short ... Later we went
are still along the famous breakwater
where many visitors and residents for years,
to over one kilometer, perpetuate
artistic ...
it looked nice from
and some of the pictures were really skillful painting!
I but no color was it
have and am not perpetuated ...
for delicious breakfast, we have means camping stove again even provided ...
After a snack we are still at sea, went swimming
and subsequently followed in a lifeguard clubhouse shower.
(Just to tell sometimes how to clean, holds if you live in the car)
The next places I skip
times to be to avoid even more boring
there are just lots of picturesque scenery, beaches and lighthouses, or other tourist attractions to see ...
Nothing could have been surprised what!
During the sunset
we spontaneously went to a very small place called
Red Rocks ...
of actually consisted of only a few small campsites
all not well attended were
what the remote, hidden atmosphere has strengthened ...
The place has fallen
me best because he came with so dangerous, rough and mysterious ... I'm so
wandered into the night nor
and have enjoyed the salty sea air.
She has thunder and storms
the completely raged in the distance have
taken a very pure acting aroma ...
am After a rainy night in a dry tent
I, once gone off
to the landscape in the daylight to see
and was not less fascinated!
Last stop for Mathieu was in Byron Bay, where he then
considered for a few weeks in a hostel is.
Before I left him,
we still put a watermelon on the beach
and the many other backpackers watched
as they sunned themselves or surf are ...
unimpressed by a small rain shower the
the sun obscured occasionally have ...
the great lighthouse of Byron Bay
stands on a hill where we not only have good views along the coast, but where has the easternmost tip of Australia ...
what is really nothing special ...
but it gives the thing a little already,
additional adventure plus ...
I'm so alone then go on to discover ...
a journey, as she had not much more interesting to be able to ...
First, I'm back, inland driven ...
to reach a place called Lismore
where there is a river (Tucki Tucki Creek)
to live in the still platypus ...
I am only arrived there at dawn
I had to go armed with a flashlight
have lights in forest ...
to narrow the beaten tracks of countless spider webs were blocked ...
did when I finally reached the river
it was pitch dark and I naturally have seen nothing ...
but just from all directions, the most diverse and strangest noises heard you can imagine it takes a lot of imagination ...
So I'm back to the car ...
Why did it but can sleep an hour
because
I suddenly loud thump noise on the roof of my car
have been torn out of the dreams ...
caused by the flashlight of a ranger
was unwilling to I on the remote, empty parking lot
spend the night ...
did after a short and unsuccessful discussions yielded
... I've driven a few blocks away and the night had
can then happily sleep
undetected by ...
up by 5 in the morning my phone alarm clock again reminded me that I was
has not gone to sleep after Lismore.
I therefore went again to the river and was looking platypus ...
I did not know at what point they are
I am a lot along the river
walked until I came to a dark, large pipe'm
what seems to be a pedestrian crossing ... should
I am So running through the pipe
to find me then on the other side
in a wild park in which it has
again swarmed by spiders, birds, frogs and other animals
just so ..
platypus nil ...
So back ...
the other way along the river
was as
wild but it also beautifully different way ...
countless flowering plants with small and large butterflies,
light fog here and there
now and then a sun-ray from the rising sun
who has fought through the rain clouds ...
and a very varied Swamp, pond - river
which almost a mile through the woods ... pulls
But ... Platypus nil ...
The thing was ...
that wild, chicken-like creatures have inhabited the river ...
these animals had been startled
the thing I've ever seen ... no matter how slow I am
gone ..
When I came to the attention of one of those chicken wings
is beating, loud and chuckling Schnatterradatternd ran into the water ...
and with him all his fellows, one after the other ...
Finally when everything had calmed down ...
course, no other animal was more in my area ... not at all
already a shy little animal beak ...
I've been so still a while on a bridge
and stared into the water ...
enjoyed the rest ... thinking ...
and decided to go back to ...
I suddenly see a very large, long, narrow stone
on a stone but the stone was not ..
but a lizard ...
one as I had not seen before ...
So I was naturally impressed by it
and they had to shoot a little bit ...
however, it was still too dark for good photos ..
it so I can be good for 10 photos
and I can wander a bit my view of the landscape ...
to provide
thereby established that many of these well-camouflaged lizards
sat around the shore and staring at me ...
Suddenly I see
in corner of my eye something unusual in the water ....
at various points
come back again and again
part of something very big to the surface ..
"oh" .. I thought so for me ...
"an eel ...
an approximately 1 meter long and good arm-thick
eel ...
"handsome Guy "
Then I strolled further down the river ...
Another nice effect
have small white butterfly or moth-like animals
obtained therefrom,
if I stepped on the floor ..
(which is more common when running)
around my feet,
in small flocks, flying up and down
... it took me immediately to a fantasy film reminds
with little elves ...
Terrified I only then again, when suddenly a road
the size of a small umbrella
seemed to float before me in the air ...
The solution
was again a huge spider web
2.5 meters above the ground
from which a few threads
to the road and went
easily have carried him ...
which in turn was very impressive ... ...
Finally after over two and half hours wait ...
I have finally seen a platypus ...
My first and probably last
wild platypus ...
yeah
've watched him a good 10 minutes looking for food ...
were
Unfortunately the lighting for good photos are still to be bad
but as a reminder they do their services!
THE SCHNABEL ANIMAL:
It belongs to the type of monotremes
(of which there are not many species) Does
:
It only has an opening for the anus
and sex organs :-) naja
It has a low body temperature of around 32 ° C
Other mammals feel we know, only at 36 ° C probably
It has 10 sex chromosomes
Most other mammals, only 2
They lay eggs, live in caves, a lot of time spent in the water, hunting with the aid of receptors, the electrical fields perform, for several days fall into a cold rigidity, the males even poison spores, and the females give me ...
But besides all these confusing facts
is probably just that funny ...
his appearance! As
have sent the first European settlers
skins of animals to England
they were considered there to be a joke ... :-)
But there were still more than the overgrown river ansich Lismore with his funny animals ...
The tourist office is already worth a visit ..
it work not only funny old ladies there, there are also many painstakingly designed information
walls and a small artificial jungle path ...
After I looked around a bit in Lismore
have won it the impression that it is a city that breaks down so slowly and dirty ...
(Where could be but also have been the rains and storms in recent days to blame)
I am finally to the last,
interesting to me appears, place went to an old cemetery ...
!
until 1986 has a cross in the cemetery
world made headlines
because it has ignited in the dark ...
Unfortunately it was stolen ... Well ...
Next stop, the
Minyon Falls
If I had known beforehand what to the next should expect few hours
I might have done something different ...
Due to the ongoing heavy rains
the summer in Australia
have as a German summer can contribute ...
many of the unpaved roads (almost all)
sometimes very muddy, slippery and in places of
incredibly deep potholes littered ...
to drive around in a rain forest had thus been something for yourself ...
I'm also a couple of times but still was able to put
fortunately exempt itself again and again ...
any case am I after a long drive
when I really feared for my car to have
a 100 meter high .. (Or low)
arrived waterfall ...
finally one that was also impressive
and not one of the many
pillepalle 3 meters waterfalls
as we have seen so far in Australia ...
Well ..
there was still a 4-kilometer hiking trail through the rainforest
,
to the foot of the waterfall ...
I'm beautiful ...
time I run down quickly ...
When I was (probably) put one kilometers
on trails
it did back then started to rain ...
right, but ...
So ..
a Bissel
more and I would dive through the rain down to ...
But I am not, of course, vice versa
but continued to run ... After 3 kilometers
narrow mud paths run along
has finally rained less
and I'm completely soaked
reached a river ..
has passed through the rain quite a lot of water ...
and I had to speerlich distributed, slippery stones
jump to the other side ...
At this point I have for the first time seriously considered
turn back to ...
But oh well ... then everything would have been in vain!
It is also gone, fortunately, well ...
I've only been on the site, unfortunately, a mistake ...
I walked past a sign without reading what is written on it ...
weil. ..
So ...
I was distracted even to the point something ..
of something great is what the blue on the black mud floor crawled up to me ...
It was a kind of crab ...
... that was longer than my shoe
and large, strong acting, scissors had ...
She then hid in a bush, so I could not make a more vivid picture but no matter ...
After this I'm with a new discovery weitergejoggt Wanderlust the way ...
as it turned out
was probably a turning point in the
I have not seen
and I am therefore
never arrived at the foot of the waterfall
Kilomter but far away from the waterfall ...
running back I'll be a way
was shorter than the outbound
but not a piece of interesting ... well ...
What was even more interesting, however, were the leeches, which I go .. have captured ...
Luckily only three ... and not very big ...
... but damn,
which can not really just Remove
left and bleeding wounds
by a pink-dark blue ring are surrounded ..
disappear after a few days!
After the walk I've then made to eat something first ...
because I had not planned it all
I had not bought anything to eat but
had to throw together and the remains were left
...
tuna, egg, cheese and bread ...
tasty but not overwhelming ... not bad!
have at least the fact Kookaburras joined to me,
have begged for food ...
these birds produce the most unusual sounds and
some have sounded very scary ...
and with an impressive size of up to 47 centimeters
can an animal such a scare and fear ... So I still have
made some quick pictures and then
'm so fast, it was possible
GEDU to the next attraction ...
A large dam near ...
There were some nice trails
where I could see a dead snake and a couple of turtles ...
... Apart from the many common
other animals, like the great
dragonflies and butterflies.
the way include the rain forests of the area
richest on Earth.
to the lake I met a Canadian who was very devout to the dam and I was glad to tell you to,
that he now lives and works in Australia and has never seen such a beautiful place like this artificial lake ...
Well ...
It may not have seen much more of Australia
because the reservoir was not as overwhelming ansich
:-)
Well ... Next we went to Nimbin ...
where I arrived late and stayed in a campsite
have a shower at last be able to again ...
because there were public showers in the area no ... have been
The likely a dingo?
Nimbin ..
has been told
must-see ...
hmm ...
It is a colorful little town of
is not willing to ban drug
... Accordingly, the streets are running around
only drug dealers and Drogenabhänige ...
course, all under the banner of peace and freedom ...
Police tolerated it forced ...
only unfortunately increasingly hard drugs sold
and I think that the place has no glorious future!
A simple, delicious but expensive breakfast I've
indulged me and then I moved on ..
I'm rumgefahren
few hours in the rain forest to get to a legendary "observation deck ... until I then only a few kilometers from the target
could not go because the road impassable for my car was ...
did this I found this:
treasures live there any trolls or dwarves ...
Next we went after the volcano Mt Warning
The tip of the first item on Australia
morgends is being illuminated by the sun ...
myself of course to climb out immediately go high ...
as opposed to me but after an hour
two Australians were
gasped the exhausted have
"It's soooo much and you can see anything anyway because of the weather" I have
decided again to reverse
and continue to drive towards Brisbane
...
With only short stops in other places
you should have blessed,
me but have not so much interested ...
as Surfers Paradise ...
In Brisbane I went
by Jörg Putzmann been received there at the time of
works and lives with two Chinese or Japanese girls
in a nice apartment ...
where I then spent a good week ...
We sometimes went to the movies,
down in a shopping center,
have also give yourself a beer in a pub
and DVDs looked ...
day, I explored
Brisbane and was very pleasantly surprised,
is that it is so beautiful ... I
had other backpackers that is not so much exciting
Brissi heard of ...
liked me the most,
a large artificial beach ...
and subsequent
Park picnic pond landscapes.
Whatever the was
went there on the weekend
direction Maryborough
I had to go so far before ever again to Brisbane ... but there are 3 hours away and I think ... I should first look at me the rest of the north ... after I've worked quite a while
... :-)
