Today at 7 o’clock in the morning we started a trip to the Tablelands (beautiful area around Cairns) after having enjoyed a wonderful breakfast.  After an hour’s drive we stopped for a quick swim in a creek and then we arrived at our first destination, the Boulders.

The Boulders are really beautiful, a place I can warmly recommend to everybody who loves a surrounding of pure nature. Then we went on and drove to the Zillie Falls, it took us again an hour’s drive. There, at once,  I jumped into the water, Jan and Paul preferred to stay on the banks and to take some photos.

At our third destination, the Miilla Miilla Falls (highest Falls in the Tablelands) we took a shower and had lunch.

YUMMI Lasagne and a fresh salad. It was really very impressive having our lunch in front of these amazing falls. Unfortunately after 10 minutes it started to rain, so we quickly had to stow our stuff into the car and decided to continue our trip to the Eacham Lake ( a very old volcanic lake). There we enjoyed the lovely view from inside the car (because of the heavy rain).:(

Then we drove on and headed to our last destination for today: The amazing Fig trees. These are really giant trees, so huge, massive and impressive you can hardly believe it. Just see the pictures guys 🙂

All in all we spent a perfect day together, and we finally had a fabulous dinner.Jan and I prepared Dorito’s Devil again.

Today we had just left our car to wait in the street for a guy who wanted to inspect and perhaps buy the car, when we suddenly found ourselves in a very dangerous situation, simply because of our clothes. ( Jan and I, both of us, wore some green singlets,  I  had put my new hat on and both of us wore sunglasses).  A group of 8 guys came approaching us and asked us whether we’d got any problems. First of all we thought they wanted to help us and we said „no thanks, we don’t have any problems, don’t worry“. But one of them, the biggest, became aggressive in his voice and wanted to know, whether it was us, who had chased one of his gang members with our green car last night. (Bad luck, we were standing in front of our car, and our car was green),  but we hadn’t been out at all, yesterday night, it was a misunderstanding. First of all I tried to tell those guys, that everything was a misunderstanding, that they took us for somebody else, but they didn’t believe us, and because both of us were wearing  green singlets, probably exactly as the guys they were looking for,  we really  looked like gang-members  ourselves :/ I hated myself for having bought this stupid hat, and we got really scared, when one of them touched his pants and we could see, that he had a gun in his pocket. 🙁 The same idea struck Jan and me: run away. But we couldn’t, there was no chance. So we stood still and neither said anything anymore. Some of the guys went away,probably looking for other possible members of a rival gang, searching in some gardens and stuff. I felt like a figure in a computer game, where gang- fightings are as normal as eating, but this was no game, this was real, and we got caught up in this damned threatening situation. After half an hour (which felt like two hours being scared to death) suddenly the police appeared and the guys did a bunk.  Still under kind of shock, Jan and I drove home to Paul’s flat  (hadn’t sold our car, the potential buyer had turned away when the gang appeared) :/ and we can only hope never to get involved in such a dangerous and frightening situation again. :/

Today we got up at 7 o’clock and Paul drove us down to the port. There we got on a boat, that took us to the Outer Great Barrier Reef. The boat ride was horrible, the sea was really rough and many people got seasick. :/ Luckily, I took some anti-seasickness-pills in advance ( I got them from a very lovely couple from California)  otherwise I would have ruined my diving-excursion. 😛 At the diving-spot we got our equipment and some instructions from the diving supervisor. Then I was the first to go into the water. 🙂 It was such a nice feeling to breath underwater, I didn’t really want to stop anymore, but after one hour I had to. I  couldn’t take photos with my own camera, because we were 10 m deep, and my camera is only proofed to 6 m, so we could only buy the photos of the professionel photographer afterwards. 🙂 The underwater life was so colourful and amazing, I felt like diving into a new world. There were colourful corals,  different kinds of the most colourful small and big fish all around, and at some places some sharks, too. 🙂 After the diving-trip we did some snorkelling but couldn’t spot as many fish as on the ground, at the depth of 10m, so we stopped and had lunch. 🙂 At about 3 o’clock we started to return to the port and arrived there at 4:45 pm. We were really exhausted and happily jumped into Paul’s car. ( He was waiting for us at the port!! 🙂 Such a nice guy! 🙂 ) It was a very amazing trip and we saw awesome fish, sharks and corals.

See the pictures guys. 🙂

Christmas time unterwater (water instead of snow)^^

Me with Wally

Jan and me with Wally

diving with Nemo

my best friend the shark (small one)

The last couple of days we spent just sitting around all naked and enjoyed our lifes as nudists, went to the pool and went shopping. One day I bought a new hat.

Having returned to Frank’s house today, our host said, that he was not well, and couldn’t host us any longer. So we searched for a new couchsurfer and found one very quickly. His name is Paul, he’s also a nudist and lives in Cairns, too. We drove to his flat, and it was awesome, Paul is such a friendly man with a really cute cat and such a nice flat.

He cooked us a delicious dinner, and we had several really good conversations with him. We felt at home from the beginning, his flat is a place you never want to leave again. 😛 We planned some trips for the next days, and he offered to show us around. Follow my blog 🙂

See ya guys 😀

Today I woke up in the car all alone, because Jan stayed at the hostel for one night. We had stopped for one night in Ayr, before going to Cairns to meet some old friends and to party on  Saturday night. We’d had a lot of fun and I had returned to my car really late. Nevertheless I picked Jan up at 7:30 am and we started our roadtrip to our northernmost destination  Cairns. On the way we stopped at the Jourama Falls and took a bath  in the rockpools.

Then we took a natural shower in the falls. 🙂 We had spent one or two hours there before we continued our roadtrip (450 km) to Cairns).

For lunch we had a crab burger,  we bought it at a petrol station as well as the typical stop>revive>survive -coffee (it’s afforded by the Queensland goverment to reduce the amount of car accidents, which are often caused by overtiredness. 🙂 The crab burger was delicious 😀 but really expensive. We paid 13 AUD for one burger (100 g crab).

At 5 o’clock we finally arrived in Cairns. First of all I bought a new beard trimmer at Target’s, because my old one gave up and I really needed one. My beard is growing at high speed over here, it’s incredible. :P. When we arrived at Frank’s ( our new couchsurfing host) at first we didn’t know what to take with us, because Frank is a nudist and we weren’t allowed to wear clothes in his house. So we just took our washing necessities with us and left the backpacks full of clothes in our car. Frank is a really friendly man and we  had some easygoing conversation with him. He told us where to get our food and so we went to buy something to eat  for the next couple of days ( I will stay here till the 19th  Decembre 🙂 ) It was such a funny experience to sit all naked during the whole conversation and not to dress after having had a shower, I really enjoyed it. It’s very comfortable without clothes and a really interesting experience for my life. 🙂

Of course I am not allowed (and don’t want) to take photos…sorry guys I can just tell you it’s a nice house with a big pool. Pure relaxation 😀

This morning we woke up at 6:30, had breakfast and continued our trip. Destination today was Whitehaven Beach ( most beautiful beach in the world). I decided to wear a  Santa-Claus-hat for the day, because it was the birthday of my best friend, and to create some kind of Christmas atmosphere in Australia ( hard enough without my family, my friends and without snow :P)

I miss you guys a lot <3

The beach was amazing. The sand was so soft, the water so turquoise and the temperature really gentle and warm (no sun 🙁 ) 30°C. 🙂 At Whitehaven Beach I took very good photos of thebeach, the entire group and of myself.

They were all very pleasant and friendly fellows, and we had a really good time together and a lot of fun. After returning from Whitehaven Beach, we had dinner (bread rolls with vegetables and salad, delicious 🙂 )

and sailed to another spot, called Luncheon Bay, where we started our second snorkel trip. This time the captain joined us and showed us around. There were shoals of colourful fish in the water. I saw Nemo (Clownfish) and Dory from the film „Finding Nemo“. There were beautiful corals and, no doubt,  this was part of the Great Barrier Reef. It was so amazing and I managed to take some close-ups of some very special fish. Enjoy the underwater life of the Great Barrier Reef.

Back on board we had a little snack (Dorito chips with different kinds of vegetables and cream). This night, when we had come to anchor, I got to know some very nice English girls and we had a lot of fun. When having a party on deck, we saw dolphins  and I almost ate a jellyfish.

In the middle of the night it started to rain cats and dogs, and  I decided to sleep inside. I woke up at 5:30 and was very exhausted for lack of sleep for the last days. After having had breakfast we stopped at our third snorkel spot. This time the captain build a swing (rope with a sling) to jump or swing over board. I started with a frontflip and by the end I did a few backflips. Check  the photos 🙂

After this funny activity it was time to return to Airlie Beach (two hours sailing). We said good-bye to our friends

and went to our car. Luckily, it was still there. 🙂 At 2 o’clock we continued our roadtrip to Cairns.

It was the perfect sailing trip, I hadn’t become seasick and I highly recommend the trip to everybody who wants to go to the Whitsundays.

This day we stowed all our stuff into our rucksacks, parked our car in Coles and went to the Abel Point Marina where we were going to enter our boat, the „Condor“. Coming there we found a lot of people already waiting to go on board. After some instructions by the captain and the deckhands, we put all our stuff on the boat and here we went. Our beds were in the kitchen

Our sailing-trip started ( and I hoped not to become seasick)

It was a sunny day, and we spent half of the day on deck to get a nice teint.

I got to know a lot of  people from different countries and had easygoing conversations with them. A few times we had to help the deckhands to lift the sail, hard work, but a good experience and very funny with the whole group ( everybody about the age of 20-27 and half boys and girls. When we came to our first snorkel spot we got diver’s-suits, snorkel equipment and started to snorkel. We saw many corals but not so many fish. I took a lot of photos. Check it out 😛

Later on we had chicken for dinner and spent the whole night chatting and playing games with the whole group.

It was a wonderful night sleeping on deck and watching the stars.

This morning we decided to park at the car park and charge our devices in the shopping-centre. MISTAKE!!! When we had returned, we found our car open and the locker in the front broken, both of our wallets were spread over the seats, our money was stolen. It looked like a mess. Normally we never leave our wallets ( with 300 Dollars and 250€) in the car but today we did.MISTAKE!!!!!! We felt so helpless and angry and considered who could have done that. There were a few people ( backpackers), who we had got to know just the other day, and we learnt, that we couldn’t trust anybody  anymore, except ourselves. So we checked the whole car whether something else was missing. For God’s sake all our tickets, ID’s and other documents were still there. We decided to forget about informing the police, because there was no evidence of a crime at all. All windows were intact and the doors could be locked, too. We don’t know, how the thieves had made it to get into our car. That has been the biggest shock on our whole trip so far. Jan and I decided to have lunch in a good restaurant. So we did, went shopping to buy some stuff we would need for our sailing-trip tomorrow. :/ We weren’t in a good mood but tried to forget about this. Tomorrow is another day and we will never stay a night at this bay again.

the secret wonderful bay^^

hundreds of cars

This day I woke up at 6:00 am, had breakfast, took some nice photos and checked the details of my sailing trip. I found out, that we had to confirm our boat passes till 7:00 am, so I packed all my stuff and drove with sleeping Jan next to me to the office where we got our boat passes just in time. 🙂 Sailing trip booked…CHECK ! 🙂 We will start the day after tomorrow at 12:30 pm.

Condor: our sailing boat

This morning I woke up at 9:00 am, noticed that Jan wasn’t there and so I decided to have  breakfast at Mc Donalds.

When I returned to the car, Jan was already waiting for me. We refilled our water bottles, bought some food at Coles/Woolworths and started to Airlie Beach ( 2 hours drive). We arrived at Airlie Beach at about 2:30 pm, we charged all our stuff at a laundry for three hours and tidied up our car.

just charging…

Then we called some Wwoofers to check whether we could wwoof at their places for a couple of days, but nobody wanted us, so we decided to sleep in the car again. We drove to a secret bay (one guy in Ayr had told us about this bay), we thought we would be all alone over there but we were wrong.:0

Airlie Beach: Town of the sailing boats ! Hundreds of boats!

Hundreds of cars were there, too,  and it was really difficult to find a parking lot for our car. :/ We couldn’t even see the bay, because it was already dark, so we decided to watch Ted and fell asleep.