Friday, 9 March 2007

Somewhere in Coff's Harbour.. successfully found some kangaroos

It is a long time again, when we have uploaded our blog, but this task seems to be more difficult in Australia, than it was in Asia. Not sure if it is because we have less time or because it is more expensive here:)

Anyway just a quick update as we are staying in Dairyville, which is approximately 11 km from Coffs Harbour by a lovely couple Cath & Evan! They have this gorgeous huge house, really your dream house just by the entry of the national park and they have allowed us to enjoy this house and their company for two days.

After Melbourne and lovely Barossa valley with lots of vignardes, we were on our way to Sydney, passing Canberra and mostly important Wodonga! NO - we havent stopped there. Sorry! We had no time and we were rushing to Sydney to meet with Lisa H., Irina S. and Brian... We spend a lovely afternoon in Sydney harbour on 38 foot long sailing boat, sailing accross the harbour and havinf lots of fun, finishing with mardi gras party (the biggest lesbian & gay party in Sydney:) - was lots of fun! We were really learning how to sail - it was fantastic (and bit scary when the boat turned 180 degrees:) but it was great to see our friends (and believe me we were not talking about work)

Sydney is great. We spent one day in the Sydney gallery (watching japanese manga films) and second day wondering around Sydney with Brian (having beers with views - that is how we called them:) It is a beer with 50% more price as you are looking straight to Sydney opera. All of this was possible as well with our couchsurfing hosts Elisabeth & Mitch, who lives not far away to the city, in the suburb called Lewisham. This part of Sydney is completely occupied by Portuguese - you can here this language everywhere, there are fantastic portuguese restaurants with Sagres and aquardent:) just lovely to spend your Sunday evening! It was great.




Afterwards we were on a road again... to Blue Mountains. Great national park with great views (but all national parks in Australia are just great!) We past Port Stephan's, Head Hat (yes, this is the originalk name), ended up on fantastic bach in South West Rocks and now we are staying in Dairyville with Cath & Evan in their great house.

Australia is fantastic! Not just that we saw dozens of koala bears (we have visited the oldest koala hospital), but we saw as well echidnea (in wild), hundreds of birds ( which are very difficult to photograph) but as well, at last we have seen some kangaroos! Yes, my quest for finding Skippies is complete! We have found them today, enjoying the afternoon sun on the cricket pitch, gazing into the sun and just relaxing.....




So we all wish you great weekend or week day... whenever you read our blog and we will hopefully keep you posted soon again.

There are lots of things happening, there is no time for writing, but just to make the story short - we love Australia!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey! It's true! You found skippy!! he's there!

Even though skippy was the "bush kanguru" and these ones seem more like the "golf course" kangurus...

Nothing new, feeling blue, lost my shoe.

Good adventures and take care,
João

Anonymous said...

Just noticed!! what a nice cap Pedro has...