On the Wallaby

New weekend, new trip!

This weekend, Alina and I went to the Tablelands!!! We saw a lot of preety cool and amazing stuff!
We swam in a crater lake, jodled into a volkanic crater, that's filled with brown/greenish goo and noone's ever seen the bottom of it... so, could go anywhere, all the way through to Austria, or wherever....

We saw the most photographed falls of Australia, the Milaa, Milaa (means a lot oof water), Falls. The water was fucking freezing and finally I understand what Leo DiCaprio was talking about in Titanic (1000s of needles piercing your skin, eh...)... brrrr, but you could stand behind the falls and that was worth the swim through the icy water....

After that, however, we needed half an hour in the sunm spent in de-frosting-mode... 'teeth clattering'

We did some nature walks.... went to look outs... took lots of photos...

The Tablelands are hard to describe, they look a bit like the hills in ireland, a bit less lush maybe... and they are very varied... one time, very hilly, then flat.... full of trees, or vast areas... a joy to look at, in any case...

Yeah, and on Sunday we went to Paronella Parks, an old Spanish castle with a nice history (see wikipedia for further information), surrounded by rainforest and (at least for me) the coolest thing ever: microbe bats!!!!!! Soooooooo cute....
we weren't allowed to take photos though.... 'grumble'

And after that to Mission beach.... pretty touristic... just a sandy white beach, warm water... nothing in comparison to Cow bay...


Yep, that's really a very short report of this weekend's events but it's about all we did, roughly, and I don't want to bore anybody with descriptions of every single bird we saw, or the turtles we fed, or the jokes we told...

Oh, but I could mention the traditional Aussie-BBQ we had on saturday evening at the homestay of a fellow student... was heaps of fun... we drank beer in stubbies and stubby coolers, ate potato pie, the others ate steaks and everything... we drank beer, jumped into the pool at night... drank beer... some (not me) fell into the pool at night... drank beer... and cycled home...
Did I mention that we drank a lot of beer???

yeah, that's life....

Love'n kisses, see ya, Jani

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