Margaret River itself is a small, not very impressive city, but additionally it’s a region famous for wineries, breweries, distilleries, chocolatiers etc. (a bit like Swan Valley in Perth). We spend the Sunday morning with tasting wines and beer in Cheeky Monkey, another beer and cider tastings in a German brewery (Duckstein). Later we continued ...

While driving to Busselton, Tobi got a message from our event company, who needed additional staff for a concert in Busselton. So he could earn a bit additional money for the trip and Kerstin had a night of partying with Vera in Busselton (as far as this was possible in this very rainy, windy and ...

Finally time has come: after 7 weeks on the West coast we made our way to Australia’s east coast. On our way along the south coast we didn’t want to miss the most important sights. As a rented car itself was not too expensive, but the so called one-way fees were around 2500$ in addition ...

Be warned, the post has much text but only a few pictures… J Week 1: After we cleaned the car a bit and dropped it off on Monday, we went to the city in order to organize some stuff (e.g. printing of our CVs). In the afternoon we met Michelle (the second couchsurfer, who borrowed us the ...

After an exceptional short drive (3 hours) we arrived in Denham at our next Couchsurfing host Paul and his young labrador bitch (we didn’t know this meaning of the word) Birra. First some words about his “apartment”: It looked like an old fabric building with a container in the back for office and sanitary. This ...

From the Karijini National Park back to civilization it’s around 700km. We decided to go to the “city” Carnarvon, as people told us it’s so pretty and because s the whole way to Monkey Mia would have been too long. There are not that many attractions, but anyway there is a very beautiful beach, the ...

We arrived at Karijini after an approximately 8 hour drive. As soon as you leave the coast and drive inland, it’s getting hotter: 40°C during the day and even in the night still around 27°C. With the first steps in the red sandstone of the national park (which would later cause quite a headache) we ...

After an exceptional short drive (nearly 2 hours) we moved to our new hosts. This time it was a married couple around 50 years old with their 3 years old son Kevin. Of course it was a different couchsurfing experience than the once we had before but definitely not worse. They welcomed us very warm ...

After staying another day in the car (we really underestimated the distances) we arrived at Coral Bay. After visiting the city (2 campgrounds and 1 hotel) we went to the beach: a beach with white sand and amazing crystal-clear turquoise water and corals. Unfortunately the corals reachable by swimming were dead and only a few ...

Finally we arrived at our very first national park. Kalbarri is a little fishing village, mainly consisting of hotels, hostels and camping grounds and of course a supermarket. But of course this concept exists everywhere where tourists appear so it was neither the first we saw nor the last one we’ll see. There is another ...

One has to know that Perth is the most isolated city in the world. You recognize it just by driving further out of Perth. Then you easily find villages being over 600km away from each other and in-between no civilization beside so called “Roadhouses” providing a fuel station and service area. A comparison illustrates the ...

Nun also (endlich) in Australien gelandet… Anschließend 2 Stunden warten am Zoll, Drogenkontrolle (mit Drogenspürhund), eine 1-stündige Busfahrt Richtung Stadt und schon waren wir bei unserem 2. Couchsurfing Host angekommen: Brodie, in unserem Alter, ein unglaublich netter und witziger Australier, mit einem ähnlichen Sinn für sarkastischen Humor wie ich (und dafür muss man nun extra ...