Blogs from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 11

All this week I've come home covered in soot. i've been very tempted to dance around like an idiot and sing that chimney sweep song from Mary Poppins, but i have refrained for Bob and Lorraine's sake. they'd surely banish me to the caravan for something like that. i suppose i should explain why i come home sooted everyday; man, you people are so demanding. Explanation ready go: Bob has an area of land from the garden to the river covered in scrub (bushes) and dead trees (dead trees). my professional tractor mowing skills (okay really i've knocked over 4 fence posts, a tree Bob wanted to keep, and i've broken the tractor at least twice) took care of most of the scrub, but we can't mow trees (well big ones anyway heh heh....hehhh) and logs ... read more

Seemed as though my urine smelled of Riesling this morning but I could have been mistaken. The journey to Kangaroo Island involved first a 1.75 hour coach ride to Cape Jervis then a ferry to Penneshawe, which was distinguished purely by an enormous sausage roll and a dolphin sighting on the ferry. The man from Budget car rental was there to meet me, dangling the keys to a Nissan Pulsar, helpfully in white to show up the dust from all the unsealed red ironstone roads I'll be driving on. All the blurb had led me to believe that Kangaroo Island was teeming with animals, but it didn't seem to be exactly jam-packed as I took the road out of Penneshawe under a leaden sky. The extent of human habitation was sufficiently minimal that there were signposts ... read more

Our first school holiday of the year and we decided to head further south. We flew into Adelaide on Easter Sunday and settled ourselves into the Hilton for our first few nights (we can't really afford the Hilton - but you can find really good deals on the net!). Since it was Easter Sunday, everything was really quiet. And the inactivity continued into Easter Monday. No one seems to live in downtown Adelaide, and everything was closed... and then it started to rain. What a wonderful way to spend the day! We did get a nice walk in along the river and through North Adelaide before heading into the museum to spend the afternoon in a dry environment. The following morning, we headed for Cape Jervis and our ferry to Kangaroo Island. Once again, the weather ... read more

to follow up the leaving of Sydney, we visited the opera house and did a tour. the rooms are amazing, especially the orchestra room, you see 100 organ pipes, and there actually like 10,000... Later date, we went to the Ice Bar-Below 5C...just like home...tear... everything was made of ice, including the glasses we drank from. You could only stay in for 1/2 hour, but it was enough. The ice was actually imported from Canadia... Had my Birthday, tried to work a double, they wouldn't let me. Sat and had one.........after another....lol Heather had a minor Operation which she is ok. It kept us in Sydney and extra week, and gave us time to say our goodbye to co-workers and Joanne once again. Joanne bought a house. A lovely one in Balmain, and anyone who ... read more

Querfeldein durchs Aussie Land Hallo ihr Lieben auf der anderen Seite der Kugel! Haengt euch der Schnee schon zum Hals raus???? Nach schoenen 5 Wochen bin ich endlich wieder zu Hause angekommen, und schaue jetzt dem Ernst des Lebens ins Gesicht. Sitze grad bei Cisco (falls das irgendjemanden was sagt) in der Rezeption und wurde mal wieder an meinem ersten Arbeitstag alleine gelassen. Hach ich muss aber auch vertrauenswuerdig aussehen. Nu aber zu den spannenden Dingen des Lebens. Wie ihr alle wisst, ging es ja mal wieder los und 'wenn einer eine Reise tut, dann hat er was zu erzaehlen'! Also so ging es also am 12. Februar los nach Adelaide, um die Deutsche Tourgruppe, meine Mutter und Freund Harald und meinen guten alten Bekannten Andre (sorry hier gibt's auch kein Strich fuers e) zu treffen. ... read more