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Rain on Uluru

The main attraction for everyone coming to Alice Springs is of course a trip to Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock. We went on a three-day tour with a group of eighteen nice people. We spent

much of the time on the road, driving around 1500km in total. Our great tour guide and driver Scooter turned out to also be an excellent psychologist, geologist, DJ and chef, and he was accompanied by his sidekick Burger the Koala.


On the road with Burger

On the first day, we stopped at Kings Canyon for an extended walk and swim. Through its geological properties, the Canyon always has fresh water inside, even in year long droughts.


Walking in Kings Canyon

Later that day, we settled down to sleep under the stars around a campfire, but a short time after that, it started raining. After just a few hours I concluded that the rain was not going to stop and moved my swag under the roof where the others had already gone earlier.

The second day started with more rain, and we went to Uluru next, to see it in the waterfalls and walked all the way around it. It's impossible to describe what Uluru is like, you really have to see it yourself.


Uluru

Finally, we got to see Kata Tjuta, another spectacular rock formation, surprisingly close to Uluru. It had stopped raining when we got there, so we had a really nice walk there and went back to enjoy the sunset at Uluru.


Kata Tjuta

If you were there on the tour with me, please leave a comment and a pointer to your own photos if they are online.

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Hermannsburg - Great Ocean Road

Over Easter I was a week in Alice Springs, with several trips to the environment. I was particularly pleased me on the day in Hermannsburg, a small Aboriginesiedlung, which was founded over 100 years by missionaries from the German Hermannsburg. Near the church there are still a muse to the story of the missionaries and their work there.

It would have a suitable place to be able to celebrate in peace Good Friday, but as our small group arrived there, has welcomed us only this sign:

Open every day, Christmas and Good Friday

Our Tour Guide knew about anything, because he had only come to help out, but at least we were able to stay for a few photos, and have the rest of the day spent in the beautiful Palm Valley, the only place for miles around, where there are ancient times even palm trees .


As always there to see more photos, click on the pictures here!

The next day Dorothy came from Sydney, and we are together on the Uluru-driven tour.

Alice Springs itself is a fascinating mix of stunning range of tourist attractions, with dozens of hostels and tour services, and the pervasive poverty of the local Aboriginal people. Since there is in the surrounding settlements strict alcohol ban, whose inhabitants come to Alice to get drunk there, and these people you see on the street.
In the supermarket, I have observed how the sale of glue to minors is regulated as glue and petrol (sniff) here the usual drugs are blown away with by the local brain.

Despite high unemployment and poverty among the Aboriginal people I have again heard from various white place, how easy it is to find work in Alice Springs and a separate existence from the ground up.

Operation Showing Removing Malignant Melanoma

unfortunately closed again

On Sunday we put up three of the Great Ocean Road. We have only the first Section seen, but it was quite impressive:

on the Great Ocean Road

As has occurred in Germany at the time a late onset of winter, it is this week in Südvictoria just unusually hot for the season, and we were glad escape for a few hours at the beach to be cooled.

the evening, I went to Groggy and Yvonne where I was allowed to spend the Monday. It was this year's conference again not work out to visit them, so I was glad I was able to make up for it yet.



I could meet there by Satellitenverbindung meiner Arbeit nachgehen, ansonsten haben wir uns nicht nur über Betriebssystementwicklung unterhalten, ich habe auch viel von Groggys spannender Karriere und seinen Hobbies erfahren.

Milena Velba Molested

I've come down to Melbourne once more, to meet up with a few friends. Since I am apparently the only person on this planet that is not aware of the Formula 1 Grand Prix , I was caught by surprise finding out that every single Hostel and Hotel in my price range in greater Melbourne is full. Fortunately, the network of friends from Linux Australia worked really well for me, and I ended up staying with Pete , Donna and their two cats, and they even picked me up from the airport.

This morning, I went to the Queen Victoria Market, did a little shopping there, but mostly taking photos:



Merchandise at Queen Victoria Market

I met up with Ann for lunch, and we went to a restaurant in Chinatown, where she introduced me to some of the specialties that you do not normally get in a Chinese restaurant in Europe. We spent the afternoon at the Melbourne Museum, and later I got to introduce Australians to the Austrian pancakes for dinner.

Animal-cruelty Free Fabric

Melbourne Canberra Day weekend

The last week was rich in experiences, so I've hardly found the time to stop and write down times. Given that the next two weeks like this continues, I will soon in all times but . Report

On Friday Doro came on a return visit to Canberra, and then together we have the National Gallery, the National Museum, Parliament and the Telstra Tower viewed. In the evening I had the opportunity to try out for the first time, Mikey's Barbeque, when we had a barbecue dinner.

Sunday we drove back to Sydney to meet with us to Charlotte. The two have me then in a concert of Hillsong Church taken, with 20,000 spectators in the Olympic Park, the music was fantastic, there were all new songs recorded at this event for the new CD.
My mood was dampened somewhat by the very strange for me Mixture of commercial and church. On the one hand, there was an official worship of the church, on the other hand, the musicians behave exactly as one would expect from any other rock concert.


Source: strictlynophotography.com
Such was once again banned photography, with regard to copyright! Any other reason, I would have understood just does not want me in the head, which the Australians brings so much to misinterpret the copyright. was also previously in the National Gallery Copyright been cited as a reason that we took no pictures of paintings, even by those whose painters for centuries dead.

On Monday I had a day off because it was "Canberra Day" - one of the holidays, it is only in the capital. I then the way back from Sydney with some extended detours and I first moved along the beautiful coastline, to turn around at some point after a swim at a secluded Pacific beach on a Dirt Road in the direction of Canberra.


rightly considered, the hairs are from! summarize

of the rest of the week short: Tuesday lamb steak with Louise, Wednesday Karaoke in Kingston, Thursday visit to the Bartlett's (Andrew and Kirstie).
Tonight, it then goes on towards Melbourne, but it more when I get back.

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From the blue mountains ...

am On Sunday I went with Dorothy and Charlotte from Sydney to the Blue Mountains. The weather forecast for Sydney predicted all day rain, so we took it calmly approach and are primarily driven by a steam train, with its unique design to the valley is down, for that is zigzag from a station next highest, while then after each short drive first coupled the locomotive on the other end of the train. Meanwhile, slowly the sun came out and still has shone all day.





the rest of the day we explored by car and on foot various view points and are on the trees und Bergen sattgesehen, am besten zeige ich einfach noch mehr Bilder...


Blackheath
Bäume in den Blue Mountains

"Three sisters" in Katoomba

Carnauba Wax Chemical Formula

Mardi Gras Parade

I went to Sydney again this weekend and had a chance to see the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras together with a few friends. Never having been to one of these before, I was surprised to see how much it is like the German Love Parade in Berlin or the Rosenmontag in Cologne (though I haven't been to those either), with the main exception that the people on the cars are not idiots but just homosexuals.

There was an extremely wide variety of groups, ranging from political activists to dance acts. There were local associations, political parties, religious and anti-religious groups, highschool kids, animal rights groups, Ikea employees, and of course beautiful dancers of both genders as well as many disgustingly ugly men.

A few people there seemed te be too much of a minority even there so they did not have there own cars, in particular I was missing

• Gay and Lesbian conservative party members
  
• Northern Territory Transgender
  
• Retired supporters of free love
  
• Sexual abstinence

I'm totally sure that people from each of those categories and even more unlikely ones were there, so sorry if you were trying to get your message across and I didn't see you.




I took hundreds of photos, though most of them didn't work out well because it was hard to get a good view on the parade, but after throwing away most of them, I have a few gems left. Some photos may not be considered safe for work, so I'm not including them directly here. If you want to see them, please follow the link to my flickr page.