We got up very early the next day for two reasons: first we had another 2.5 hour drive to Canberra and the car had to be returned at 10 am. Additionally, we wanted to see the sunrise, but unfortunately it was quite cloudy why we couldn’t see anything and we directly started to drive. We ...

The most interesting part of Batemans Bay is the further north Murramarang National Park, as it includes three dreamful beaches (Pebbly, Pretty and Depot Beach) and a beautiful river into the ocean in North Durras. But before we came there we visited two other beach cities, namely Bendalong and Narawallee (incl. Mollymook). The beaches weren’t ...

We arrived at Jervis Bay during the afternoon and had beautiful weather. Tobi found a little bay with turquois water (Currarong) at the northern end of the bay. There is another Rock Pool there as well. Just a gorgeous area! We stayed the night in a camp ground in Huskisson in order to explore Jervis ...

To see a bit of the coastline between Sydney and Melbourne, we rented a last time a small red car. Unfortunately the first day started directly with a lot of rain. But anyway, we didn’t want to miss a few highlights around Kiama: the Cathedral Rocks, a rocky formation that indeed resembles a church, and ...

So here we are, the world famous Blue Mountains… They are mostly famous for the fact that they are one of the “nature” spots in Australia which are easy to access by car or train (which is a bit of a contradiction but anyway). As we already figured out before, “experiencing” the nature bush in ...

Steve’s sister Leanne picked us up at the train station and welcomed us so lovely including offering us nice dinner. Anyway, her two dogs welcomed us before: Alex and Diesel. One of them is 4 years, the other one is around a year old and therefore very active. The two are Pitbull Terrier and very ...

After Tobi made friends with two Dutch girls on the campground, the drive the next day to the highway was no problem at all. The two girls planned to go north, but until the highway we had the same way. Somehow we made it to put our luggage and the four of us into their ...

Before we made our way from Coffs Harbour to Port Macquarie, we had to prepare a sign. Slowly, Kerstin started to like preparing it 🙂 Done with that, we had to reach the highway. The right spot for hitchhiking is important, that’s what we already learned. We walked a bit confused and without sign, cause ...

Today should be our longest hitchhike, 400km from Byron Bay to Coffs Harbour. After it literally rained the whole night, also into the tent, we had a little lake in our tent (well, it was only a 32$ tent), and tried to convert it into a transportable condition in order to leave after breakfast. This ...

Back to Brizzy – Australian word for Brisbane – we directly took a train to the world famous Gold Coast. There we found a couchsurfer for 5 days: Joshua. He is as old as we and trains for his first marathon in L.A. which will be in May. Unfortunately exact one day before we arrive ...

Before we arrived in Noosa, we made a stopover in the Great Sandy National Park, with the Rainbow Beach as its main attraction. Helen and Myra from Fraser Island said, that we MUST go there, because there is sand in all colours you might imagine. A word a blow. The main beach, where we made ...

Before we arrived in Hervey Bay (at our next couchsurfer, this time a German expat called Axel), we wanted to see the beach of Agnes Water, because Steve described it as the best one in this area. It’s definitely a nice one without many people and so we spent there some hours. After a small ...

From Mackay we went back to Gladstone. Actually, we thought about directly going to Hervey Bay, but on the one hand, we had some buffer and on the other hand it would have ended in a complete day in the car. That’s why we decided to make another stop in Gladstone at our couchsurfer Stephen, ...

We found two couchsurfers for Mackay, each of them for one night. The first one was Dish. We are actually still not sure if it is his real name or a nickname. He is, anyway, a very relaxed guy around 30 years old, originally from Los Angeles and in Australia since 8 years. Until now ...

Unfortunately we couldn’t find a couchsurfer for Airlie Beach, also nobody answered on our request, but ok. That’s why we started to search for a camp ground. As we had to drive through the city centre, we were really shocked and were close to turn around, because Airlie Beach is absolutely THE tourist city. There ...

After a quite cosily driving to the entrance of the national park and a subsequent drive over hedge and ditch (which was fun due to our SUV), we arrived late afternoon in the campground at the gorge. After a nice chat with the lady at the reception the plan for the evening was set. We ...

We originally chose Gladstone because we thought we might get the chance to visit the Great-Barrier-Reef from there. On the other hand, we knew before that the tours were too expensive. These cost 190$ for a 5 hours boat tour in order to spend two hours on a bird-poo-island calles Lady Musgrove (Indeed, the island ...

The first day, we had to pick up our car. A wonderful Nissan Dualis (one could nearly say an SUV). We had even a car passenger for the first day, a finish guy called Mikey. Yes, you heard it correctly, neither German (50 % of all backpackers in Australia) nor French (48 %), but Finish, ...

The overnight train was very comfy as we both could sleep almost without any interruptions. That’s definitely a recommendation whoever want to do this trip in the future. While we were sitting in the bus to our accommodation, we experienced what it means to be in the middle of the summer in Queensland. We were ...

The event company for which we already worked a couple of times in Perth, was looking for staff for the 3-day music festival Lost Paradise in Glenworth Valley (30/12-01/01), around 100km north of Sydney. We wanted to use this chance and applied for all possible positions. We got both rosters for 40h as bartender. Additionally, ...

After we tried for a long time to get a couchsurfer in Sydney and didn’t succeed (understandable cause it was Christmas), we booked a room in an apartment through AirBnb (was indeed cheaper than the worst hostel in Sydney). The apartment was quite central (10min to the CBD) and our hosts also very friendly. They ...