As most of you know, my parents are here with me since a week now. After one week in Sydney we left for Canberra – Australia's capital city. And look what they did to me as soon as they got the chance in Berrima (that's halfway between Sydney and Canberra):


They left me like that for hours – wuaaaaah! ;-)

Canberra is very streched out – amazingly wide streets and no chance to get around without a car if you don't want to walk for ages. But we have a rental car for two weeks now – no problem. We visited some of the major sights, for example the „Telstra Tower“. To pay 4,50 Dollar each to get on the viewing platform high above the city was definiteley worth it. Great 360 angle views.



We will leave Canberra again on Monday (one-and-a-half days is enough!) and head down to the coast for three days before we get to Melbourne. And yes, I know, it will be the third time that I'm there...

I'm back in Sydney now (my parents arrive on early Saturday morning) and I think, I can say "I went all around Australia!"



I missed Tasmania and the far North - but I think, I can still say, I got all around. And there has something to be left for my next visit to Australia anyway... ;-)

My last „big adventure“ (for the moment) here in Austalia was a three day canoeing trip into the Everglades, along the Noosa River. The water there is very calm and very brown, it looks lovely when the trees mirror in the water and you hear nothing else than the paddels stroking trough the water and the crickets (=Grillen) make their noise. The water looks like a cup of black tea – the tea trea trees (or however they are spelled) cause that color. Means, it is not as dirty as it looks. It even made the skin very soft after swimming in the river – obviously good for the skin. But if I had known before that there are sometimes aggressive freshwater sharks in there – I would not have had a swim! :-)





The first day Anna and I paddeld for three hours, arrived at the campsite at 2pm and wondered „What are we supposed to do for the rest of the day?“ There is nothing except a toilet there, it was a quite boring afternoon. The second day was, opposite to the first, filled with exercise: 12 kilometers of paddeling and 12 kilometers of walking. Nice, hot and exhausting.



I realised (not for the first time in my life): I hate camping! Sleeping on a 5mm thin mat, crawling around a and into a tent, cooking on a little gas stove – no way! I had four nights in a tent in one week now – that's enough for the next YEARS! And even if it is exciting to have kangaroos and a big phyton snake (about two meters long, honestly!) next to the tents – as soon as it gets dark it is a little scary. „Where did that snake go??? Who joins me to the toilet, please?“ ;-)