a bit of everything in australia

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there has been almost on month since the last blog so i don't remember everything any more... so I'll be short this time, for your sake, haha

Melbourne and Brisbane

the first city I visited in australia was Melbourne. probably the most "european" of all cities I've seen in oz so far and therewith my favourite. I did a very "formal" visit of company where Tanja works 😊)
I had some extra time there so I decided to see the Great Ocean Road, famous for high cliffs and the "twelwe apostoles", but only 8 of them still stand there. another proof of decay in catholical church, haha see the pics. I wanted to rent a car and explore it on my own, but in the end I decided to take the easier option of a guided tour. we all agreed it was a "fast food tourism" because most stops we did were just for 15 mins in order to take some pics. who cares.
Then I visited Brisbane for one week. The weather was not as warm as I expected and i got a bit ill.
anyway, I was fed up with cold weather so I booked a flight to tropical Darwin.


Darwin, Kakadu and Lichfield national parks

There is dry season in Darwin now, which means that the weather is sunny, dry and hot /exactly what I needed/ and the prices are high. I met there three Irish guys, Cian, Jerry and Pat and Shane from Canada and we decided to rent a 4WD pickup together and share the (very high) rental costs. Fortunately, we were all engineers which ment we all liked beer, steaks, swearwords and loud singing 😊) they liked the translations of the "slovenian" ones, of course.
Kakadu national park is almost as big as Slovenia and there is a sealed road which makes a loop through it and one must stick to it with a rental car unless you have a 4wd. and we had it!!! so we were able to visit all the best things to see and all the bumpy roads heading there. this made a big mess in our boot as some sauce jars and cans broke.
The main things to do in Lichfield national park is swimming under the waterfalls and demolishing the rented cars on the hard roads. nooo, we were not that mean, but the roads were really extreme sometimes. see the pics.

a couple of days ago I took a flight to Cairns as it was just a little more expensive than bus. and 3 hours travelling instead of three days... makes sense. I am a bit afraid because now the most expensive things are coming... we will see, somehow i'll sort it out. but here i am, at the great barrier reef!
greetings to everybody!

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Photos

mini-koala
yeah, the pic sucks, but this was the best I could do. some photoshop might help

brisbane
the cat on the river is public transport

darwin beach
it's not that easy... the agressive saltwater crocs inhabit the area near the moss and the deadly jellyfish are present from october to may. but in general, one can still swim here

thru kakadu
this is a good unsealed road

yellow water billabong
big stretches of wetlands where crocs reside

aboriginal paintings
each painting tells a story. but they generally speak about unreasonably fierce punishments for bad people

the quartet of engineers
jerry is missing

evening, camping
time for beer and steaks. big mess in the boot, chilli sauce and tuna oil went everywhere

Comments

[ziva]

KAJ PA PTICJA GRIPA!?!?! :) ful hude fotke, ampak najboljsa je pa ta, k sta s papigo gor. pa postrist se bo treba pocas, hehe.

[dzuro5]

ticja gripa ne skoduje zdravju
cupa pa tut ne. nimam za frizerja, sori, pivo je ful drago tlele pa ne ostane dost za ostalo.

[Ursula]

zgleda hudo tale australija! superca!uzivaj!!!!lp z Dalmacije ursula