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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba December 10th 2007

As I was sleeping outside the tent there was immense dew, and thus I woke up at around 5 o'clock; it was fun to watch fauna and flora awake amidst the rainforest with its lush vegetation; turkeys, parrots and wallabies passing by our tent, fog clearing the rainforest.... just amazing! after exploring the site a little bit more (for finding the entrance for our track; and finding out, that there was some blasting of some huge Bunya tree to happen the next days), I prepared myself some tea and ate my sandwich; after some small chat with our "bullshit"-neighbours, Robert got up, and we prepared our stuff for the expedition; but before we could start, some parrots have been very interested in our food ;-) ... we decided to take the grand tour, as we were ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba December 9th 2007

After having joined the bush walker's social Xmas meeting recently at "Flings" and having had some chat about some of their recent tours, and about our coming tour, Robert and I departed (by feet) for Hertz car rental, to pick up our Toyota sedan; it was Sunday, but Hertz had been open, as they also had to cater the Australian army on this day; after driving home to pack our stuff, we made an hour's stop-over at the uni, as there was a Xmas grilling party (=barbie) for all intl. students going on, and as Zami (my house mate) was playing Santa Claus for the children there; at around 12:30 we left uni, and headed towards Crows Nest national park (around 1 to 1 1/2hrs drive north) (where also the main dam for Toowoomba's water reserve ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba December 8th 2007

On Saturday, Steve and Max took me to a multicultural potlatch meeting of some Buddhist monks at a college near the CBD; unfortunately I forgot to bring my cellphone-cam, so I had to take pictures with Steve's phone-cam; at the beginning of the feast, there was some introduction of a senior Brisbane Buddhist-monk about the motive of the evening "compassion and goodwill permeate the world"; approximately 250 people joined the gathering; afterwards people were catered with loads of different fresh dishes and drinks (btw: cold soy milk is really refreshing!); during the eating there were different performances; tai-chi, a Chinese child presenting typical Chinese ballet, a djembe-drum-session,...; finally we all joined in on the stage for: "feliz navidad" and "we are the world" ; -- this was really a peaceful and enjoyable and happy X-mas party! ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba December 6th 2007

just to give some impression of an ordinary weekday during December. Tomorrow I have a job-interview for a part-time job, and Robert (a former study fella, undertaking a world-tour back-packing) arrives for staying a few days with us here at Ware Ct, Toowoomba.... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba December 3rd 2007

Just beautiful and amazing this colourful sunset... ...evokes humility!... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers Paradise December 2nd 2007

The idea for joining the bush-walkers again so soon after my last adventure with them arose very quickly, after i have checked and compared my uni-semester-timetable and their further itineraries. Shortly after I have made my inquiry, Paul called me and offered me to pick me up at the uni-drive; as I was pretty sure that the weather will be fine during this weekend, I decided to leave the tent, that Andrew lent me, at home (-- a big mistake, as I had to learn the following day!!!); after some 2h drive on Friday morning 7:00am, we arrived at marine-bay harbour near Gold Coast; the other bush-walkers dropped in by-and-by, and we still had some time to take some coffee; afterwards a water-taxi drove us in a 1/2 ride to Tipplers resort (.. somehow this name ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba November 29th 2007

Bioto is quite different to the one I am used to in Germany/Europe. Plants and animals adapt their life to survive in this harsh environment. Here, I tried to catch some photos of regional birds just in front of our house, and on the way to uni.... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane November 26th 2007

This Sunday Ryjan and I joined the local bush-walker group of Toowoomba; we headed E-NE to the state forest and national park Mt. Glorious for finding some old plane wreck; the last 20 km up in the rainforest are very pleasant for bikers keen on driving serpentine; the view is fabulous up there! it was really rainforest-feeling (as it rained just the day before)... an impression I could not have imagined at first place. To the West of the park, there are some big dams/seas, that hold much of the reserves for Brisbane city, and also the Brisbane river has its source there. Although we put on sunscreen and repellent on the outset of our trip, the mosquitoes were very aggressive, and 2 people of the group also got some leeches on their feet sucking blood; ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba November 23rd 2007

I just stumbled upon this one this week in a supermarket (during my search for beer... which is not sold in supermarket , but only in special liquor stores): brew your own beer; it is easy like instant-coffee hahahaha (this is NOT beer in a can! it is soluble beer-powder!)... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba November 23rd 2007

... with old piano parts...what a pity... the poor piano.... :-( nothing more to say here!... read more




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