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1-3 Björn’s birthday in Rockhampton; 4-6 Arlie Beach; 5. Australian’s water creatures; 7. A common wicked camper; 8. Aussie way to protect people from falling coconuts; 9. Big Mango; 10. Dry landscape; 11. Sun lotion in XXL tube; 12-13 Aussie awesome public BBQ; 14-17 Magnetic Island (17. Beach was closed due to crocodile in the water); 18-20. Our second Wicked Van (was the best tourist attraction); 21. Mission Beach; 23-25 Fishing with Jeanette und Sascha (24- Jana’s catch was a stone); 26. drive carefully!; 27-29 Australian’s landscape up the coast; 30-32 The best wicked ever (see the km!); 33-end Halloween in Cairns with our Mexican’s wrestler masks „Nacho Libre & Rey Mysterio“

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Pics: 1-20 Patrying in Brisbane with Liam; 3. Me trying again the koala face 5. Bjoern & Liam 7-8 & 13-16. Hot aussies (the best jeans & shoes styles ever) 17-18 After the party 19-20 Bjoern again getting waves 21-25 Brisbane 26-45 Steve Irwins Zoo 30 Sleeping & eating koalas 31 Cassowary bird (could be very dangerous) 32 Strange lizard with 2 heads 36 Crocodile feeding 38-43 Jana in cangaroo paradise 46. At Rainbow beach 48. Our famous Wicked van

So we were staying at Liam s place in Wurtulla. The guys decided it would be a good idea to drive to Brisbane one night to go to a club that had a free drinks party on friday. So we went and could not believe our eyes when we saw all these Aussis dressed up in way to tight jeans and the ugliest shoes ever. We took so many pictures it was awesome. The party was alright, but just watching all these guys was so much fun…
>From Liam s place we took our new camper up the coast – highlights were:
- My birthday steak in Rockhampton (including the rodeo show)
- Getting to know Jeanette and Sascha in Mission Beach
- Fishing with the guys ( I caught my first fish, but it was only as long as my hand so I threw it back into the ocean)
- Halloween in Cairns (check out the pics in the next article)

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Pics: 1-8: Sydney & the Botanic Garden(Tropical forest, flying bats, huge strange trees in the middle of the city) 9. Blink blink! 10: Jana and the birds 11-15: At Darlying Harbour with friends (it startied as a walk on the promenade and we ended up in bars drinking beers and shots because of the bad weather) 16. me, Bjoern,Sam, Fabian& Chris 18. Bjoern &Sam 19. Darlying Harbour 20-23. Sydney in a sunny day 24. German beer & music 25-28 Our camping adventure 29. Don Sam 30-31. Bjoern getting waves on a loneley beach 32. The road to the beach 33-34. Public BBQs in Australia were our best friends 35-36. Giant banana &co on the road 37-40. Jana’s birthday in Biron bay 41. The coala face 43. Giant prawn 44-49. At Sam’s friends place partying and eating (a lot) until…we actually don’t remember when:)

We were quite excited on our flight to Australia. First because we expected much of it and second because we would meet up with our friend Sam, the Canadian who we had befriended in Nicaragua. As we arrived in Sydney s airport we called Sam and he told us that he would be gone for two days and that we could meet on the weekend. So we found a hostel in Kings Cross and began exploring Sydney on our own. Unluckily it rained during the first three days, but when we met Sam on the weekend it started getting better. Sam knew lots of people living in Sydney so we had a good time (what s up Chris). After a week we were itching to get out of Sydney to see more of Australia. We had booked a „Wickedcamper“, the cheapest camper you can rent. These campers are very basic and are painted from the outside. The guys working there are quite inventive. You see these campers all over Australia and they are all different from each other. The slogans they use are sometimes a little offensive, but hey what better way to come into contact with other people? Here are some slogans we saw on our way:
„Oral-Me; 90% of dentists prefer Oral-Me over dental floss“
„I like Barbie – that bitch got everything“
Our second camper got the slogan: „Don t drink and drive – smoke pot and fly“ and was painted with Cannabis leaves, evereyone wanted a picture of it, we should have charged them.
Anyways, Sam, Jana and I got in the camper, bought food and drinks and hit the road. I had bought a surfguide book called „wavefinder“, so I knew where to find all the good surf spots. On the way from Sydney to Brisbane we found some amazing national parks, always camped for free somewhere in the nature and even managed to get showers inside Caravan parks – you just have to walk inside like you own the place and nobody even thinks that you don t belong there. Australia is a paradise for campers, one finds public barbecue places and toilets everywhere and they are all clean. I got some nice waves on the way up, although I was kind of scared the first time I went in the water, because I was the only one and the sea was dark. Whene I got out Jana told me that she saw a group of dolphins passing near by me when I paddled out. If I would have seen them I think I would have shit my pants. The absolute highlight on our trip was Byron Bay, not because of the spot itself, but because of one weird incident:
The three of us went to a bar to have some beers and food one afternoon when all of the sudden an australian aproached Sam and asked him if he had seen some Canadians around. Sam looked up from his beer and couldn t trust his eyes. He had met this australian, called Duncan, and his wife a year before in Amsterdam on a pub crawl. They had lost each other later that night and even tried to find each other on the next day, but didn t suceed. Well, of course we had to celebrate their luck, got a couple of beers and Duncan and his wife Leanne invited us to have a typical australian barbecue in their place on the next night. It was awesome – thank you guys for everything we hope we can make up for it in the future. Duncan we still don t know how you made it to work on the next day. We dropped Sam of in Surfer s paradise. He stayed with a friend there and Jana and I headed to Wurtulla, a little townn on the Sunshine coast where we planned to visit Liam, an australian we made friends with during our dive course in Honduras. We stayed with Liam for an entire week, enjoying the luxury of a proper house and his Entourage-DVD s, the best TV show ever. I surfed everyday and found the best australian waves there. After a week we went to Brisbane, explored the city for a day, got into our camper and hit the road again, this time only the two of us..

After all the parties in the states we were happy to fly to Fiji – the dreamland of relaxation. Upon arrival we were greeted by a bunch of Fijians who wanted to give us information about the different islands. We ended up getting a cab which drove us to the Yasawa Flyer, the only ferry boat which takes you to all the different islands. From the states we had booked accomodation on our first stop – Naviti island. We stayed in a basic „bure“, a bungalow right on the beach, surrounded by coconut trees. Snorkeling was excellent right in front of our new home, so we spent the next day in the water observing all these fishes and the coral. The next day I took Jana to the Honeymoon bay, which opened up after a short walk over a mountain. We went there just before sunset and I proposed to her (she said yes, thanks to God)- that s why Fiji is a special place…
We spent another day on Naviti celebrating our luck and off we were to the next island – Nadula. Our accomodation there was a big step up from the former one. The guys than run the hostel were all very friendly and the other guests staying there were a lot of fun. We visited the local village, went snorkeling, laid on the beach and Bjoern showed the english guys how to play football (and these guys claim to have the strongest league – suckers). Time flew by and before we knew we were on our way back to he main land. We stayed one night in Nadi and it was already time to continue our journey – off to Australia.