Las Fotooooos!

Hummm... These fotos were now totally randomy selected since this computador is one that you have to pedal to get it running (poljettavaa mallia)... I dont know what happened to these pictures, why they are stretched like this, and i surely dont know how to turn them, but i might make a second effort to find some nicer ones... This is from Sydney and it sky scrapers.

This one is from the Blue Mountains national park close to Sydney - quite nice view

Hihii, this is an larvae that has encapsulated ans waiting to be hatched to be a butterfly

This is from the beach where we spent our first night with our camper van in Australia. These rock formations were incridibe, wow..

Still the same beach

And well, this one is from Santiago yesterday, from the lookout point on one of the hills in the city. They say than on a clear day you san see the mountains but i assume that those non-smog days are not there anymore, atleast not so often.

HAhaaa! I had access also to Brunos photos through my camera, so here is random selection also his photos =)

Forest from somewhere, cannot tell where though, sorry!

Now look at these Austraian trees, thayre crazy! There is secondary roots growing down to ground from branches and they actually penetrate the gound and act as an support and/or transport. So cool!

The moon in Melbourne

Dunno what

In Melbourne we visited a gallery where was an exhibioçtion about manga and stuff realted to that. They also had a video where they followed step by step how the traditional hand-drawn animations are done in Japan. Awesome! And actualy now when i think about it, the previous picture must have been related to this exhibition aswell.

Bruno had to finally throw away his legendary 40cent Schengdu flipflops, yhyyyy... ;o)

Old volcano crater in Aucland

Maori rowing boat contest somewhere on our way to the Tongariro national park in New Zealand

same happening

Tongariro park "big crossing" of 20km, and this is one of the craters. Awesome views and landscape. I had other pictures here loaded about the same hiking aswell, but for some reason i cant see them anymore. Maybe they show up when i publish this text

sunset from the same national park

The perfect school book volcano. We didnt climb on this one, the track just passed by it

Our camping site close to the Tongariro, with the volcano and the big moon on the back ground

Steam pushing from the pithole in the ground with boilig mud in Rotorua. How cool!

There was a weekend of vintage cars in one of the small towns we stopped for the night in New Zealand. This one was parked on the parking lot of our motel.



The Pacific Ocean in Coromandel peninsula in New Zealand. Soooo blue!



Santiago de Chile

Hola!

Greetings from sunny Santiago, we arrived here two days ago. So far so good, we have bought some bus tickets to head south starting tomorrow, and the chilean people are just lovely. Heartwarm and helpful and smiley, nothing to complain about =) Santigo itself is a bit boring, not too much things to do or to se, and i think our three nights here is more than enough. So far the most gratest thig the city itself has offered to us was the Mercado Central where we has absolutely delicious seefood lunch! Yummy! It has been quite nice to walk around in the city though, but i didnt get the homey feeling here as ive dome in some other places where weve been visiting.

Our next destination where the bus will take us day after tomorrow is Pucon and Villarica volcano. Im determined to see some lava, so lets hope that the volcano is on its (not too) active mood when we get there.. Then after that our plans are not too clear. Depends how we feel about the lake district we might go to Argentinian side to Bariloche and check out their hikes in the Natural Parks and atround the lakes. Then it will be ass-aching 30h bus drive to south leading us eventually to Tierra del Fuego at the end of the continent. Then we still might have some time for some hikes in Torres del Paine national park before catching a flight to Buenos Aires or directly to Rio, vamos a ver ;o)

So far our travel has been ookoo, some things and places more great than others, and we still have six weeks to go. Time runs sooooo fast, i think we ujst started our trip, and theres still so musch to see. I defnitely want to get back to New Zealand one day to explore and see it all properly, and i think i will get the same feeling about South America aswell as soon as we get out of Santiago. The only problem though is that South America is some what bigger than New Zealand. Well, atleast we will have something to do and somewhere to travel in the future!

Huhhuhh.. I think i will out out this ttext now, and if i go to our room and am able to find the cable to connest my camera to this compu then i might out here some kind of selection of pictures for you to see.. I already know that i dont have any pictures on my camera about New Zealand since Bruno filled his SD card already in Australia and ttook mine in his camera.. But some i do have surely, i will put some of then here for you to look at =)

Besos a todos! <3

New Zealand!

Everybody move to NZ!!

This country seems only after one week amazing, definitely the best of anything we have seen so far. Landscape is awesome, people are nice and theres a billion things to do here. We will come back, no question about it =)

So, today er are going to the airport of Auckland and head towards Santiago de Chile. We have finally made a decision how to get our asses to Rio since i bought a tracel guide about Patagonia. So there we will head, although according to someone (..) its not america latina enough ;)

But my time is running out, so thats it folks for now!

M&B

Cairns

Moromoro,

Here we are in Cairns safe and sound. We took back the campervan today and tomorrow we have flight to Melbourne where we are spending few days before going to New Zealand for a week. Driving to north along the coast has been great fun, and against all odds not at all too rainy. Lucy i admit that here in Cairns and down in Townsville it has been raining, but we were waiting the highway to open in Airlie Beach where the weather was more or less ok. And yepyep, the highway from Townsville to Cairns seems to be still closed due to all the rain and floods, but we did yesterday the strongly NON-recommendabe inland drive to get here. The road was two-way but one lane, but we were lucky enough that it wasnt raining too much so we saw early enough when a road train (truck with three trailers, scary...) was coming. so that we pulled over to dirt to let them pass. Interesting 10 hours of driving :)

We also finally saw the Great Barrier Reef, although our trip was cancedde twice due to rough wind. But once we finally made it there it was definitely rewarding. i could have been snorkelling for more than the three hours and look at the fish in all possible rainbow colors, lovely!

And also another awesome thign we did was in Mon Repos Beach where we saw sea turtles hatching, emerging up from the sand and running down the beach towards the sea and the waves. Incredible! It just hurt me to know that out of the 150 turtles we saw only one if any make it until htey are 30 and come back to the beach to lay the eggs - if they are females that is. The males never come back to the shore, they just spend all their lives swimming in the ocean and looking at all the fish in all possible rainbow colors - would be nice ;)

But honestly i will (one day) put here some pictures, we have plenty of them. The Australian part has been lovaly, cant wait to get to South America.

kisses to you all!

hippiecamper @ east coast Australia

Hei all love ones!

Sorry for not writin here at all for a long time, but time somehow goes so fast and the internet caefs here in Australia are shitty expensive. And theres always something else to do or take care of when sitting next to a compu.

But so far our trip here in Oz has been just success. We have been now driving up the coast for a bit less than two weeks, and we still have one and half weeks time to get to Cairns. Mostly we have been driving on the little roads, staring at the sub tropical rainforests, spotting kangaroos and enjoying the lovely sea so far without jellyfish. That jellyfish part will start soon though, and after that it will be only admiring the sea wihout actually swimming in it..

Before getting here to Rainbow beach we spent three nights in Brisbane with Jaclyn and Jordy, thanks for the accommodation guys <3 Lovely city - if you end up everf going there then visit the Gallery of Modern Art. Awesome place! We did one-day hike to rainforest with Jac and Jordy and it was nice - amazing huge trees! And the leeches (iilimadot) attaced us just in the end of the hike so it was more that nice.

Today later we will go kayaking in the see hopefully with dolphins (they didnt have guarantee to see them though..) and we are concidering to go to the Fraser Island, but since its one huge sand dune we are not allowed go there with our van, but have to hire a four-wheel-dride.. And like everything else here its shitty expensive and smells a bit like tourist trap.. But lets see what we end up doing...

Maybe tomorrow (or some other day) i will put here some photos for you.. Big hugggggs to everyone from the sunny Australia <3

M&B