The last week I was diving almost every day. On monday, I was asked to go along with some people doing their Dive Master course (they had to do an exercise which consists in making a map of the sea bottom in a specific area). The name of the place was Oak Park, located near Cronulla Beach. There was a lot of swell which made it difficult to tie the bouys with flags to the bottom to mark the area for the map, so we got out of the water and headed to a place called Bass & Flinders and the sea conditions there were a lot better. We had time for one dive and it was sufficient for them to place the bouys and start their maps. After that we had something to eat and ... read more

It’s been some days since my last post, so I’ll try to write as much as I remember. Last time I wrote was the day after I went to “Jurassic Lounge” in the Australia Museum. That’s the problem of having let too many days pass, because now I’m having a hard time remembering what I did last week. I’ll just write about the things I do remember and work on the details after I actually post this. Mainly, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I hanged out with the same people from couchsurfing. Wednesday I stayed home during the morning looking in the web for places to stay, and in the evening I took a bus to a suburb called Maroubra, to look at a house where they were expecting me to talk about possibly moving in. The ... read more

On Thursday I took a 2 hour train ride from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. I had heard a little about them, and decided to go, not really knowing what to expect, except that it was a national park. On the way there I took the time to read the Australia Lonely Planet guide (mostly its history and then read the few pages about the Blue Mountains). The sights on the way there are totally different from what you can see in Sydney, it’s practically a rainforest. I got off in Katoomba (small touristic town) and walked down the main road (Katoomba Road), where I arrived at “Echo Point, the lookout of “The Three Sisters”, a renowned rock formation there. Of course, when I arrived, the whole valley that forms beneath the cliff was covered by ... read more

The flight between Santiago and Sydney went smoothly, despite the fact that I had to seat in the middle seats of the middle row in economy. A short stopover in New Zealand and finally arrived on Sunday 5th of February at 7 am in Sydney. Customs went fairly quickly and when that was done, from the airport I took the train to the home of my first host in Australia, Mark Ashley; last year I joined a community called “Couchsurfing” or CS (self-explanatory name). This community is basically a way to travel and meet locals, which enables oneself to stray away from the usual tourist paths. People may offer you a place to stay, show you around the city or meet up for a coffee or a drink. It’s a great way to meet people from ... read more

Este es un blog en español e inglés. / This is a blog in Spanish and English (the English version is at the bottom). De Villa Vanguardia partimos al Lago Yelcho. Ese día pasamos por Villa Santa Lucía y paramos ahí para almorzar. Compramos algunas cosas en un minimarket, dimos una vuelta por el pueblo y después almorzamos (sandwiches) cerca de la plaza. Después del descanso seguimos pedaleando y nos tocaba subir la "Cuesta Moraga", otro de los sectores difíciles de la Carretera Austral. Como ya habíamos pasado la Cuesta Queulat, esta nos pareció bastante más fácil y sin darnos cuenta, llegamos a la cima. Después, la mejor parte de la cuesta; la bajada. Y seguimos pedaleando hasta llegar al Lago Yelcho. Ahí hay un camping de lujo, a orillas del lago. Hay un hotel, cabañas ... read more