18. Feb 2009

Well it’s been 10 days since I last wrote something. All that time we have been in Melbourne, where actually nothing interesting happened. But I can still talk about it a bit.

First thing when we arrived to Melbourne was of course finding place to stay. Didn’t know any places there, so we just went to the city centre and tried to find something there. First place we went to were full, but they recommended one other place, so that was where we headed and that’s where we stayed till leaving from Melbourne. That place was huge, expensive and not so nice.

In the backpackers we met 3 Estonians all together, so quite a lot compared to previous encounters, only 3 in 3 months. What was even more surprising was that we went in the same high school with one girl, Annika. She went in the class higher than me. So the world is real small. Also one thing I noticed when talking to the Estonians was that it was really weird talking in Estonian again. And Annika had 2 more Estonian friends who we also met. So 5 Estonians in Melbourne. Too many Estonians already.

So what good did we do in Melbourne? We watched 2 new movies: “Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans” and “The curious case of Benjamin Button”. Underworld wasn’t anything special actually, but defiantly better than second one, but first is the best. The Benjamin Buttons story was pretty good, I recommend watching it. They put something that is really hard to picture into a movie and not so bad actually. We watched it in the Moonlight Cinema in Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, not in the real cinema, so I’m guessing in the real cinema it would have more affect.

What else? Hmm, we listened to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, we didn’t see it, but we heard it when we were sitting in the park drinking beer :P. Spent quite a lot time in internet, doing nothing or looking for a job, well Kaupo did mostly last one :P. We ate lot of different food in there, because we didn’t make any food ourselves we ate out all the time, so we tried to eat different things. There is lot of Greek and Chinese food. Saw pretty much all Melbourne from one high building. And we drowned in smoke from all the fires. Because the wind turned it blew all the smoke on Melbourne.

Because it started to get quite depressing in Melbourne, too many people, all the smoke, expensive, no work and nothing, well not much, to do. We found a place called Sheperton from the internet and got information, that there should be some work around there we came here. But it wasn’t really easy to find a place to stay for night, because there are quite a lot of people, which isn’t good thing for us. Also we registered in local government job agency, but they didn’t promise us much. That is where we sit and wait at the moment. Because there is so many people and too little work we have to wait here, when any farmer calls they pick people who are waiting here. Things with farms aren’t good at the moment, because of the heat and other stuff, so it will be long wait probably. There are 7 other Estonians waiting for a job here.

Anyways yesterday when we arrived here, something really interesting happened, that is rare to see, especially in Estonia. While we started walking from train station to information centre one guy stopped his car next to us and asked if we wanted a lift. We were really surprised didn’t know what to say, but in the end we accepted and he dropped us off to information centre, so we could ask about accommodation in here. And they guy said that after we find something and start walking towards the city he could pick us up and give us a lift where ever we need. And he actually did. I actually haven’t seen anything like this ever before and I think this is something awesome, something I want to do someday; I want to be like that one day.

Now we keep waiting in here and hoping that we will get some work soon.

I hope next time I write here I can talk about our fruit picking stories.

All the best!

PS! I am thinking everyone who are back home and not so far away from there and hope to see you all soon.

26. February 2009

Ok, here I am again. Still alive after 1 week of picking pears :P. Not much has happened otherwise tho.

We got the farm job by the noon after waiting in the government agency office. They just came in and said names who were picked for fruit picking, we had to come back in few hours and they explained all. In the evening we already headed there. We were chosen together with one English couple, James and Annie, who also gave us a ride there.

In the evening we were already setting up our tent in the place we were going to stay. It wasn’t nothing special, we had some shitty toilet, showers and kitchen. Nothing luxurious, in kitchen we didn’t even have a stove so we had to use our own gas one.

Next day we already headed off to work, woke up at 6 am and were ready by 6:30, when we got our bags, jumped on our tractor and headed on the field. By the noon it got quite hot, so had to drink quite a lot of water. Worked till like 2 or 3 pm and by that time we had 2 bins each. Btw we got paid around 35 dollars a bin, anyways that was told to us, but still gotta check if we got that money. I didn’t like this job much so I am not gonna talk about it much, I think farm jobs are more kind of for ripping off foreigners, who want to get second year visa. But Kaupo liked it so you might read more about it from his blog. The only cool thing was our tractor I think :P and got to do physical work a bit.

Now we are back in Sheparton in the same hotel and in the same room too, weird, at least we can leave blanket and pillow what we “loaned” back here.

Don’t know exactly what next. Maybe we are going to visit Kaupo’s relatives or already head off to New Zealand, we will see about that. I’ll keep you updated.

So long, take care and live your dream.

03. Feb 2009

Alright here I am again. I’m trying to write here more often, so that I wouldn’t forget important stuff and so that people who are reading this wouldn’t die in boredom when reading.

So what have we done so long? We spend some time in Hobart and tried to figure out what are we going to do. Spent some time in visitor information centre and walked out with bookings to Bruny Island tour for next day, bus tickets to Launceston for day after that and also backpackers booking for that. We bought the tickets for Tasmanian Spirit, the boat from Devonport to Melbourne, so we are leaving Tasmania on 8th of February.

The tour was quite awesome, but it was also quite expensive, like 160 per person, tho positive thing in that was that breakfast (tea and a muffin) and lunch (soup, sandwich and piece of chocolate) was in that price, at least for me :D. We heard that tour to Port Arthur cost almost same much, but without any food. But I’m quite happy that we did that, tho yeah it was actually quite a lot of money.

But about the tour, we started early in the morning like 8 am heading to Kettering, where the ferry headed on the island. But on our way we also grabbed some stuff for our lunch, because all the food we were eating was got/ made in Bruny Island or in its surroundings. The bus trip itself was boring, but sometimes our tour guide talked something about places we drove by. He talked real interesting stuff and made a lot of jokes, so it was real fun too, sometimes maybe too fast, but otherwise it was good.

On Bruny Island we drove to Adventure Bay, where we got our tea and muffin. On our way there we passed cherry farm, cheese factory, oyster farms, lamb farm and other stuff. Like the tour guide said that island has quite lot natural resources, especially the sea, which is the reason why aborigines were driven out/ killed there. After that we were all put on boats, which took us around the island, showing its coast, which was awesome, big cliffs, which were suppose to be Tasmania’s (maybe Australia’s, don’t remember :P) second highest, 260 m high. Also saw different kind of birds, but the thing that I will remember most are the dolphins and there were heaps of them. Just seeing them swimming next to the boat, time to time jumping out, gives so big positive feeling, that can’t be described. We also saw lots of Australian fur seals, which were quite cool too, scared of boats a bit, not like dolphins, but otherwise quite playful creatures. And they stink too, like the tour guide said like anchovies.

After the boat tour we had our lunch, which was quite good, maybe should have had more food, but I am with quite big appetite too :P and headed back to Hobart. We chilled there for a while and today some more. Today I wanted to go get tattoo, but the tattoo shop was busy till 1.30 pm and our bus left 3 pm, which might not be enough time for that. So we went to post office, Kaupo posted some things to send to Estonia and I posted Danielle’s book that I had finished and needed to get rid of to get some more room in my bag. After that we got some games, foot bag, cards and one cool ball that bounces on the water. I also bought myself hiking boots, because the boots that I had used so far are giving me blisters.

So now we are in Lanceston in the backpackers here and tomorrow we are trying to head to Bay of Fires. Lanceston is quite small city and Kaupo seems to like it a lot, I don’t care much, for me it is still a city :P. But for a city it is nice, I don’t argue with that.

When we get back I guess I can tell how the Bay of Fires was, so till next time. Btw we now understand we don’t have enough time. We would like to spend some time in Launceston and go to the Cradle Mountain tour, but I guess we won’t make it now, because we are leaving already on this Sunday to Melbourne.

Lately I have been waking up real early, like around 8 or even earlier without any alarm, so I am surprised, that’s really early for me. I am waking up before Kaupo which is even stranger, but then again I am usually going to bed earlier too I think :P. The reason for this might be that there is quite a lot to do and I wake up with no feeling that I don’t want to do that, rather with joy. Also there is no reason for me to be up real late, because usually I am really tired after everything we have done that day and anyways I’m not feeling like partying.

Cya, catch ya later.

06. Feb 2009

Right now I am sitting in the bus which is heading to Devonport not many hours of sleep last night. The reason for that isn’t that we were partying or something, but today we had to wake up quite early to catch a bus from St. Helens to Launceston. And all this after quite busy day before that.

So what has happened? The day we headed to Bay of Fires we had to get up quite early again, because check-out form the backpackers were 10 am and we had to pack all our stuff again, so that things that we would leave there and things we take with us separately. Once again I was up way before Kaupo, don’t know what’s going on with me. So when I woke up, I had a shower and then waited for Kaupo to wake up by reading and chilling in the computer. Our bus didn’t leave before 3 pm, so after packing we were looking around the city and trying to figure out what are we going to do after we are back from Bay of Fires. Also I wanted to get a tattoo, but turned out that the guy in Launceston doesn’t do white ink tattoos, so next time.

Because we got quite bored we went back to backpackers, grabbed our stuff and were hanging in the park, playing with foot bag. Before park had lunch too, first time we had sushi, which wasn’t actually that good, so next time we will try to find real Japanese or something restaurant to eat that.

The trip to St Helens took 2 hours, so I tried to sleep in the bus, but didn’t have much luck, slept maybe only 1 hour :P. When we got there we didn’t actually know which way we had to go, but after a bit we found the road. Because there isn’t public transportation all the way to the Bay of Fires we had to walk there, around 10 km there, to the centre of the bay even more, like 20 km. But we wanted to go so we started walking. We had already walked heaps when one car stopped and asked where are we going, so we told Bay of Fires and they said that they can drop us off to one of the campsites near there. Turned out that we actually didn’t have much to walk anymore, but it was quite a lot of help still and it was really nice of them.

We also talked a bit with them, turned out that they are travellers also, girl was from England and guy from France. They said that they had been in Australia already since April. They came to Tasmania to do some cherry picking, but turned out that there wasn’t much cherry’s this year, so actually they didn’t do much work. The English girl said that she did some fruit picking up in the north Australia too, well, not exactly fruit picking, her work was more like packing and stuff like that. They both said that north Australia was real great, but the French guy said that East Coast was overrated, I kind of understand and bit thought so too, like he said, not his cup of tea.

Anyways after we got to the campsite, we set up our tent, ate and went to bed. Next day we headed to the Bay of Fires. After we had walked a bit, we passed couple of houses and one guy who was out there stopped us and recommended us to go there by the beach. And I think it was very nice of him, because on our way we saw beautiful red rocks, nice beaches and cool waves.

In there I had quite interesting situation. I almost lost my hat, well, wind blew my hat off and it headed to the sea. When I followed it we found real awesome place, where there was a kind of like a pool of seawater between rocks. It wasn’t big, but it was actually quite deep and we could jump in there from rocks. There should be more this kind of places. But at that moment I lost my hat there were some chicks sunbathing, so we had to come back later, I mean to swim there, of course I got my hat while I was there.

Anyways we walked all the way to the big beach there, had our lunch, swam a bit and started coming back. In the end we actually walked quite a lot, it was pretty good workout climbing on those rocks. And our way back we swam in that pool.

This evening we went to bed real early, because we had to wake up 4.30 in the morning. Which was quite interesting, but we made it. It took like 1 hr to pack all the stuff and have breakfast, but when we started walking it was still dark, so bit scary. But everything went alright, on the road we saw few dead animals and one not so dead kangaroo, but it was injured badly and bleeding, quite terrible sight. After walking quite some time, one car stopped again and asked where we were going. He dropped us off to the St. Helens.

From there we got on the bus to Launceston, tho we couldn’t get much sleep there, because soon lot of chicks came on the bus and were screaming and laughing, so not much luck. When we got in Launceston, we wanted to book a backpacker in Devonport, but they said that they don’t do bookings, so they only gave us their numbers. Kaupos phone was almost dead too, so we were thinking what to do. So first thing was that we went and had some lunch. We went to the first place we had seen that sold pancakes, which was awesome, tho bit expensive, but quite good too :P.

After that we thought that we will try to get on the earlier bus to Devonport, so we could go to information centre there and see if there’s any tours going to Cradle Mountain. Got our stuff from backpackers and headed to bus station. We actually made it and here we are heading to Devonport.

More to come…

08. Feb 2009

Made it to Devonport and we are still alive. Not much to tell about because only few days passed since the last time.

When we got to Devonport we went to the visitor centre, which has helped us a lot since we started using their services. Anyways, we booked ourselves a tour to Cradle Mountain next day and asked about accommodation in Devonport. There was only one tour that’s going to Cradle Mountain and again the tour cost quite a lot, but as we wanted to see it we accepted. If we would have had more time to go there by ourselves, then we defiantly would have done that, but since we were already leaving on Sunday we didn’t have much choice.

The place where we stayed at was so far defiantly the best and for that price cheapest we have been so far. We only paid 25 dollars a night and we were staying in the room where only 2 of us were staying. Laundry was totally free and anyways really nice place. So when going to Devonport Alexander Hotel is the place to stay in.

Once again we had to wake up early next day, because the tour left 8 am. Our tour guide was real interesting guy, who was doing 100 different things. Besides doing tours on school holidays he was a teacher, did sailing, kayaking and all different stuff in town and elsewhere. Tho he was a bit weird too, don’t know how to explain it but, you gotta trust me on that :P.

The Cradle Mountains were really beautiful. The day we went there it was raining at it was cloudy, so we missed some of it and couldn’t do the lookouts, but it was still amazing. There was on town we passed by that was quite interesting, it was known for it’s murels. Also we learned about one guy that saved the nature in Cradle Mountains, an Austrian, Gustav or something like that. He used to live in the mountains, with only animals as company, got his food and everything from the nature. So if I have time I’ll try to learn more about him and see maybe he wrote a book or something too.

After driving around, the tour guide showed us his home town and let us use his kayak a bit. Nothing really special, just a bit on regular river, no rapids.

When we got back to Devonport we tried to get some information about Melbourne accommodation from visitor centre, but they only had stuff about Tasmania. So we didn’t know what to do because we are going to arrive to Melbourne quite late, so don’t know if any places are open. But I remembered there’s some written down in Lonely Planet, but later we still didn’t book one, because Kaupo dialled the number wrong :P, gotta dial 0 in front of numbers here and today morning we didn’t call either. So we will see what is gonna happen.

Later on we went to the Cinema to watch a movie “Gran Torino”, which turned out to be a lot better movie than I thought it would be. And in the evening had few beers and chatted with some people in the hotel.

Morning we had to be on the boat 9 am, but had to be there earlier, 45 min- 1,5 hr. What I like about the system here with a boat is that you don’t have to carry all your luggage with you, instead you leave it behind when you show your ticket, kind of like in the airport and you get it when you leave the boat.

Boat itself is quite cool, but still not much to do and pretty much have to pay everything. Only good thing is the cinema room, where they show quite new movies, on pretty good screen. So we have been watching movies all day.

Anyways we are arriving to Melbourne at the moment, so I’ll write more after more things have happened.

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Tasmaania

17. Jan 2009

Welcomes from Tasmania! There has few things happened in these few days. Like we went shooting, we spent few days in Sydney and we came to Tasmania.

Because I don’t remember what I wrote last time, I have to check if I already wrote about some stuff, if I didn’t I’ll add some more stuff later.

Anyways…

Before going to Sydney we went shooting with Sam, Adam, Chris and Kaupo. We had quite fun day. Because kangaroos are mostly nocturnal animals, then we had to leave in the evening, Chris and Adam were working anyways, so we waited for them to finish. Left Jenolan after 5 pm and headed out, the place we went was like 100 km away from Jenolan. When we turned off from main road Sam showed us how to shoot and let us try. We had two guns with us, Magnum and 303, if I remember right and if it says anything to anybody. Magnum had optical zoom and didn’t have basically any kickback, but it was also quite weak. 303 had a kickback, but it also punched quite a hole in things too.

When we arrived there it was actually too light still, so we just walked around and went to see, if there’s any roos around the area, in the forest hiding from the sun. We were really bushwalking, guess it wasn’t real wise to put shorts on, but luckily I wasn’t the dumbest, Chris came with shorts and thongs :P, after we had walked a while he was scared shitless, because Sam was talking about snakes. We saw only few roos there, but missed them all.

We got back to the car and went too see if there’s any on Sam’s dads property and there actually were, first kangaroo’s blood was shed on our way there, first Sam got one, next by my hand followed by Adam. I didn’t kill the roo straight away, so I feel kind of bad, it jumped in the forest and we didn’t go to chase it, so it probably bled to death.

We reached to place where we got out of the car and went to see if there’s any around. And there actually was some just around the corner. Kaupo tried his hand, but missed that one, it was quite far actually. But right after that we saw another ones, Chris got that one, but he only shot it in its leg, so he had to finish it up, but got scared, which was quite stupid, because why did he even shoot it. So Adam finished it up. Moving on we saw one bigger group and because Kaupo hadn’t got any he could try again, this time he didn’t miss and dropped the roo right away, clean shot in the chest. Because it was getting dark we got back in the car and did some off-road driving and looking for roos, we found one, I shot it, but again it ran in the bush and we couldn’t find it, so it actually made me feel bad.

Moving on we started getting back to first place, shooting roos on our way, but because it was quite dark already we had to use the torch/spot light, looking for roos around and shooting them from the car, there we got quite a few of them, don’t even remember how many. We reached to the place where we suppose to be shooting at first place, but didn’t see any kangaroos, saw one wombat, but we missed that one.

We finished shooting and others wanted to go to Maccas, quite strange I know, in the middle of the night and like 150 km away. But half way there the tire went flat and we had to get some help. When we stopped I had to put the guns away and get all the ammo. Magnum was easy, but 303 wasn’t that easy, yeah well, at least I got the last shot :P. No, I didn’t shoot anything or anybody, just emptiness, tho scared me shitless :P. Here’s something to remember, if you don’t know the guns, don’t empty them in the darkness. After the incident Sam and Adam went to find some help, to get the tire fixed, didn’t take much time and we were on our way, but not anymore to Maccas, but we headed back to Jenolan now.

Because it was our last night at Jenolan everybody wanted to have a drink with us, but we got to Jenolan quite late, then like Lynett had already left. But Owen and other younger people were at his place and that’s where we headed too. Everyone were quite tired, so we had a drink and headed to bed.

Next day we finished packing our stuff, said good-byes and not good-byes (means we said that we hope to see some people someday again) to everybody. Owen took us to Katoomba, we got on the train and headed to Sydney. In Sydney we wanted to find one backpackers, that people in Jenolan were talking about, but we didn’t and we had to too heavy bags to keep looking, so we headed to Kings Cross, but not to the same place, but found one other. Wasn’t real nice, but anyways it was for one day.

In the morning had our breakfast, left our bags there and went to the city centre to find thongs and I needed new charger for my computer. The electronics store said that they need to know the voltage and stuff like that to get one for me. So I decided to try again next day. Looked around in Sydney to find thongs, which turned out to be not so easy, all stuff was either really expensive or shitty, mostly really expensive. But I needed thongs real badly, so I found ones that seemed to pretty good and so far I think they are alright.

I had contacted with Danielle also last day, when we arrived to Sydney, so she called us when we had had our lunch and wanted to meet up and take us to the beach. She picked us up and we headed to Bronte beach. It was awesome, doing nothing, just laying on the beach. I actually fell a sleep on there and now I’m bit burned, so its gonna be like 10th time I’m gonna lose my skin in Australia, defiantly not the last time either.

After that we grabbed our bags from the backpackers and went to Danielle’s place for a while, ate there and came back to the city with a train to go to new backpackers, the one that people were talking about, Onn was going to lead us there, when we got to the city. This backpackers was quite awesome actually, somehow cooler, maybe because of the weather, but it was also bigger and looked nicer. Turned out that Raphael, the one French guy that got fired was also staying there.

After moving in there we contacted Joe, who had just arrived from Tasmania and we wanted to meet up with him. We got to his place, chatted for a bit, had a drink and then people decided to go out partying. Took some taxis to Kings Cross, went into one club called Yu or smthing like that, danced for awhile, everyone were drinking, but I didn’t feel much like partying, so I was just chilling and checking out the girls.

Next stop was The Gaff, some people wanted to take a taxi again, but it was actually like 10-15 min walk, so we thought it was pointless and started walking there, everyone followed :P. There wasn’t much going on there, but in front of The Gaff there were people in latex and leather, turned out that there was S & M party next door. It was quite funny, haven’t seen quite anything like that anywhere. Joe and some others somehow got in there and said that it was crazy in there, but also heaps funny. Anyways, Onn got real drunk in there, so that she couldn’t stand up anymore and Raphael took her back to the backpackers. We headed to some other club, which was quite pointless and soon headed back home. That night we saw some crazy shit, S & M party, gays, transvestites, prostitutes and other weird king of looking people.

Today morning we woke up quite early, repacked our stuff, took shower and wanted to check out, but noone was there, so we left a message that we will come back later, we couldn’t wait because we had to meet up with Joe, so he could give us some of his videos he had made of us and his stuff about Tasmania. Did that, then headed back to the backpackers, to check out, we left our bags there for a while, to Raphael’s room, so he could give ‘em to us when we’re ready. We looked around the city for a while, Kaupo was trying to find a jumper and I got the charger. We headed to airport earlier, because we didn’t know how to get it and just in case.

I thought that our flight was leaving 5 pm and Kaupo didn’t check it also, so when we were there we saw, that we have 1 h till our flight, because the 5 pm time was arrival to Melbourne, so we were actually lucky. And instead of waiting hours in the airport we got almost right away on the plane. I spent my time sleeping on the plane, so I think it was well spent. In Melbourne we had dinner and I bought a book, because the one that I’m reading at the moment is almost finished. The book I got is made by Dalai Lama and some American psychologist, talks about happiness, haven’t read it much at the moment, but seems to be good book.

At the moment we are in Hobart, in some backpackers, but we were too late here, so reception was close and we couldn’t check in and all the other places we called were full. So today we are sleeping on a couch in the backpackers here and tomorrow we will see what we are going to do.

Later…

“Genius produces great ideas and concepts. Hard work produces the results.”
“Great things are accomplished with slow movement. Nothing is accomplished by standing still”
“Our words reveal our thoughts- manners mirror our self-esteem. Our actions reflect our character, our habits predict the future.” William Arthur Ward
“Success is determined not by what you get for reaching your destination, but by what you become reaching it.”
“Deal as gently with the faults of others as you do with your own.”
“Intelligently selfish people are completely unselfish because they know that it’s the best way to win big-time”
“Doing ordinary things in an extraordinary way will assure you of an extraordinary future.”
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

19. Jan 2009

Here I am, still in Tasmania, tho couple of things have happened in these few days that are worth talking about. As I was saying last time that we didn’t get a room to sleep in and we had to sleep on the lounge of the backpackers. That we did, but it didn’t end so good as we thought, at least not for me, because I put my phone charging before going to sleep, but when I woke up in the morning it was gone. At first I was panicking, but soon I got to the understanding that I can’t do anything about it anymore, because I didn’t know who took it, so only chance to get it back was to go to the police.

But in the morning we still had to find a place where we could sleep next upcoming nights. We walked around awhile, looking for other backpackers, where they might have room for us. Found one where they had room, but still we said that we will look around a bit more, because we saw one next to this one. But when we reached there they said that they don’t have any room for us. So we got back to the last one and got room for 2 days, because we wanted to sleep long next day, we hadn’t slept well for ages. After moving in we decided to look around, find the police station. We got there, I told them all I knew, but they told me that the chance to get my phone back is quite slim. What ever, worth of try anyways. I am still bit mad what happened to my phone, but it only a phone, I can buy a new one, tho that was quite new. Trying to cheer up now.

Anyways on happier topic, we kind of booked the test to make our license, kind of, we wanted them to contact us, because we didn’t want to pay with credit card. Don’t remember the date, but it was in the beginning of February, so we have over 2 weeks time till then.

At first didn’t know what to do, but now we have found lot of things we actually wanna do. We visited the visitor information centre here in Hobart and saw lot of cool things to do. There are lot of tours around here to see different places, but I don’t like doing tours that much, rather explore by myself. Because there are lot of cool trails all around Tasmania, we are going to visit them, or at least some. At the moment the first place we are going is Maria Island, which is pretty much inhabited island, where backpackers and hikers go. Next one is the Wineglass bay and areas around there. At first we thought about going on trails near Port Arthur, but Kaupo wanted to go to Maria Island, so I agreed with him, maybe some other time then. Besides these three there are 2 more bigger trails, one is in South Tasmania, not very popular one, and people have to fly in or out there with plane, depends where you start. But there’s one real popular one in north, but I read that you have to pay to do that and there are limits how many people can get on it a day, so we have to book it. Maybe we will do it after we have our licenses. So we will try to spend our 2 weeks on the Maria Island and Wineglass Bay, we are heading out on Wednesday this week.

We have been looking around in Hobart now past few days, also doing some shopping, for the hike. Kaupo is trying to keep his bag as light as he can and spend as less money as he can, but I’m not on the same opinion. Tho I agree that keeping bag light is wise, because it’s easier to move around, but still I think there are things that are needed, like Kaupo wanted to go on a hike at first without gas stove (making fire is not allowed in many national parks) and pot. I also got myself a mat, because last time we did the Six Foot Track we slept on real hard ground, so I think it’s wise to have something like this. But I am getting worried about things not fitting in my bag. Oh, I also got one waterproof bag, which can be compressed, to get the air out and make everything more compact, use less room, maybe this will help, we’ll see, but maybe I just have to throw few things out.

We still have to figure out where can we leave some of the stuff we don’t need next few weeks, to keep our bags as light as we can, because there’s gonna be lots of food that we will be carrying with us, also I think we need to get one more gas for our gas stove and get food for our trip.

Over and out…

31.Jan 2009

It’s been quite some time again since I have wrote anything, but it is not because I haven’t had any time, well maybe a bit that too, but I couldn’t have anyways because my computer haven’t been with me. What I am trying to say that we have been kind of out of civilization for almost 2 weeks. Now I have few things to write about, not so much, because we have been doing lot of walking and looking around, it is a bit hard to put views and sights into words.

So we left Hobart on 21st of January, got on the bus and headed to Triabunna, which is the place where the ferry goes to Maria Island. Had to leave quite early and the bus ride took couple of hours. We couldn’t of made it on the morning ferry no way, so we got there after that one had left and had to wait for the evening one for 4 or 5 hours, so we were just chilling there getting some sun.

The ferry we got onto was quite small actually, but I think for this purpose it is enough, because there isn’t that much people using it anyways. Ride was quite scary because when we got onto the sea the waves were huge, tho good thing is that anyone didn’t get seasick and we even managed to see one dolphin jumping out of the water next to the boat. It doesn’t seem to be much, but it gave me much energy and made me calmer, made me feel that everything is going to be real good (not that I have had any doubts :P)

When we got on the island it turned out to be smaller than we thought and we already had booked the return ticked out of the island for the next Tuesday, so we had to spend 6 days on there. Didn’t bother me much, we had enough food for that and we weren’t in no hurry to anywhere either. We spent the first night in Darlington, which is the place where usually people go and from where they usually don’t make much further. There was few houses there, rangers cottage, BBQ area and was possible to take hot showers, so it was actually still quite civilized.

Next day we headed up the island to campsites away from Darlington. On our way we passed the Painted Cliffs, which was actually quite interesting, cliffs made of sandstone. And there were waves on the cliffs, which looked like they would have been painted, from there the name too. We reached to the first campsite, which seemed to be quite boring so we headed to the next one, after we filled our bottles with water. Next campsite wasn’t that far of it, so it was a easy hike and it was more interesting too than the first one.

That was the place where we stayed for like 3 days. There was awesome beach near by, so we spent one day just chilling there, getting some sun, swimming in the sea (tho the water was freaking cold), doing nothing. Next day was just a lazy day, Kaupo got little too much sun last day, so he didn’t want to get much sun. He was just chilling in the tent and later he went for a run too. I was walking around and just enjoying life. Later that day went to the very end of this side of the island, to see the Haunted Bay, which was actually further than I thought, so when coming back ran little low on water, then I decided I never go anywhere without enough water and right now I’m thinking it was wise decision.

Since we didn’t have much need to know the dates and days I have already forgotten, what did we do when. But anyways, when we started coming back we used different way, so that we could climb up to one mountain, the Mt. Maria, which is over 700 m high. We left our bags in the bottom, in the bush and climbed up. It was quite a climb, but the view was awesome and also the feeling, after you have done it, something you have to experience yourself. We got to Darlington in the evening, set up our tent, ate and got to bed. Next day we climbed one other mountain, the second biggest, The Bishop and Clerk, which was over 600 m. It was just amazing, made me feel real good and happy. Tho this day was the Australian Day, the day when everyone goes to parties and gets drunk, but I think we spent it in much better way.

On 27th of January we got once again on the ferry, but this way heading the other way, back. I think the Maria Island was quite good when wanting to save money, but also real good experience. I think the money part is important for Kaupo, because when he is going to school, then he can use it for that or just buy the stuff he wants in Estonia, but for me the money is the way to get experience here, tho still gotta choose wisely on what experience to spend it on.

Since the bus to Freycinet only went once a day and that one quite early, then we couldn’t get on it and we had to spend a night in Triabunna, in the local caravan park. In there we met this cool Australian guy, who told that Melbourne is the best city and spoke a bit about his travels in Vietnam and other places. It was really interesting. Later on we taught him a card game, but he had little hard time understanding, because he had already had quite a few beers. One Dutch girl also joined us to play cards and we had really good time. The Dutch girls were heading to Maria Island for a day and then to Freycinet too. The Australian guy was coming on the same bus with us.

So next day we got on the bus and headed to Coles Bay. Had to switch buses at one point, but otherwise everything went smoothly. Got off in front of the Coles Bay visitor centre and then headed towards the walking track. And so it begun. Since there was everywhere written that the water is hard to find in the park, so I got 3 litres of water and 2x600 ml Gatorade and hoped that there will be enough water somewhere to make food, but turned out that I was wrong. The first camping place had some water, but there were some things living in it, but we didn’t know what, so we kept away from it just in case.

The next day we had hard day ahead of us had to climb a mountain with our bags, about 600 m, which was quite challenging, but I was comforting myself that it gets me fit, if I am going to go to Tibet. The next campsite in the Wineglass Bay didn’t have any water, so we had to rely on our own water, save as much as we could.

We were so low on water that we didn’t cook any food in the morning, because there wasn’t any water to spare. Good thing was that next day was the last day in the bush and the water was basically behind just one more mountain. Night was really hot, I didn’t sleep well because of it and the morning was terrible too, didn’t feel like doing anything, but as we were low on water we had to keep going. Positive thing was that we had sea next to us, so we could cool us off in there, plus the little cooler breeze from the sea.

While walking up the Wineglass Bay beach I saw dolphins swimming right there, just incredible feeling, this time there were 3 of them, I just stopped for a bit and enjoyed just being near these fabulous creatures. In the end of the beach we had a swim before heading up the big mountain, the last challenge. Wasn’t actually that hard anymore, because the bags were heaps lighter, but still with every step it got harder and harder, and the water was just like vaporizing. On our way up we made a stop by the Wineglass Bay lookout, before heading to the car park where we could get fresh water and just relax for a moment. We talked with one of the tour guides also there and he said that the creatures in the water in Cooks Bay were mosquito larvae’s, nothing dangerous.

After we had filled our bottles we headed back down the mountain, to the town. As soon as we got out of the car park one car stopped by us and asked if we wanted a lift to town. It was pretty awesome of them, so we didn’t have to walk down there in all that heat. They told us that last two days it has been the craziest heat in ages, that usually it is not that hot, they said it has been around 40 degrees, which was surprising, because it actually didn’t seem to be that hot.

We got to town and were thinking what to do, actually were going to make some lunch, when that Dutch girl, that we met in Triabunna walked past us. We had a little chat and she said that she is staying in the backpackers in here and there should be some room left in there. So we decided to go check, because no buses were going anywhere at that moment anymore. In the reception they said that there are no backpacker rooms available, but we can stay in the tent, so we did. While we were setting up our tent, we saw that the guy from Triabunna was also there, what a coincidence.

We had our lunch after we had set up the tent, then headed down to the beach, chilled there for awhile, had a shower, had dinner, got some beers and chilled on the beach again.

Next day was Saturday so there were no buses going anywhere, so we had to hitchhike. Was kind of weird and had to wait for quite some time, but got on the car back to Hobart. Now we are back here in our hostel, where we left our stuff. We got us rooms for 2 days. After we had settled in we went to have a big nice pizza and later on went to the movies to see the “Yes man”.

Don’t have much plans at the moment, so won’t talk about that at the moment.

I know that I have already written quite a lot, but there are few things I started to think about when I was out there. One thing, which I don’t know why came up to my mind, bit weird, but at that moment felt really important was the animal that I would be (not like to be) or that I were in previous life or what ever anyone wants to think. Tho I didn’t think of any specific animal, I thought of what kind of animal. So I am guessing, that I would be a bird that is closely connected with the water or which is doubtable, fish that dreams of flying :P. I’m guessing that it is because I am quite often thinking about flying and also that I am into the water and water animals.

Another thing that I started thinking was that travelling isn’t actually so easy, it is harder than it seems to be. Maybe when you are staying in the city, having one job and spending your time and money on drinking it might be easy, but not the way we have been travelling. Just carrying your stuff all the time and trying to think one step ahead, but not planning everything ahead, is quite tiring sometimes, also because you basically don’t have anything guiding you, to base your travels on, especially if you don’t want to have another touristy trip.

Thing that has been bothering me for awhile is if I should stay in Australia for a longer period of time or just leave in the summer like Kaupo is planning to. I haven’t made any specific decision yet, but I think I will stay here for a longer, I don’t know yet how long or how I can do that, but there are different ways, but I’m not gonna talk about it yet. At the moment I have basically anything back in Estonia, other than my friends and family, but I can’t let that to stop me learning and experiencing stuff. Little selfish I know, but there was a quote little back about, so I hope that lot of good things are going to come out of it. I still haven’t forgotten anyone and I am thinking coming back to Estonia for a while, not sure exactly yet when, but I am guessing either this summer with Kaupo, or maybe if I am going to do the Tibet and/or Thailand trip then probably by next Christmas. I think staying here gives me more time to travel and learn things, but also save some money, to make my one dream come true one day, this is setting up my own company.

Real quickly about things I would like to do here in Australia and/or when going to New Zealand:
*motorbike license
*diving/ divers license
*bungee jumping
*snorkelling
*fishing
*see wild marine animals
*sky diving (maybe, but not tandem)
*learn to surf more

Quite a lot of stuff here now, but there has lot happened, so just wanted to share it, so that everyone would know that I am alive and well and happier than ever :P.

Leaving soon...

7. Jan 2009

I just have to write something about today, because it was me day off and did something different :P. Actually I had day off yesterday too, but didn’t do much, well did the usual stuff, like surfing in internet for a bit, going for a run, do some workout, watch a movie, have a beer and so on. But today Zev had a day off too, so we decided to go to Lithgow, with no specific purpose tho, just to spend some time and get off from Jenolan. On our way there Zev let me drive his car, which was pretty awesome, because I haven’t driven a car for awhile now. In Lithgow were just chilling around, went to the shopping centre, looked into one motorcycle store, went to maccas :P, that’s about it, nothing special, but better than staying in Jenolan.

Anyways after that we headed back, we wanted to check one place out, that said Black Marsh, but when we went down the road it seemed to go nowhere. On that road we almost drove off the cliff, because Zev was bit speeding and showing off :P. But all was well and he let me drive back. After this we decided to just spend some time by driving and looking around. And I could practice driving on roads that no one uses. After making one round, I had to go back on the highway to get back on the small roads and then I forgot that we are driving on the left side here and drove into wrong direction and almost crashed the car, scared me shitless. Good thing is that we are all good, car is alright and we had quite interesting day. But that’s for sure, I never ever wanna forget that we are driving on the left side here.

After all that we went to Kym’s (Owens “wife”) place for a while, hanged out there, later got back to Jenolan. Played Xbox for a while, till Huey wanted to go to Oberon to get some pizza and asked if I wanted to go with him and Chris. Didn’t have anything better to do anyways so went with him, but when we got to Oberon we saw that the pizza place is closed. Huey and Tubbsy were hungry so we went pub, where they got their dinner, I didn’t care much, because I know that there will be free food waiting in Jenolan :P. Anyways after they had eaten we got back to Jenolan, I had my dinner, after that went up to the flats and now it is bed time.

Today would have been real good to go to the beach, because it was so damn hot. No clouds, basically no wind and that sun. I almost could of gone to the Fosters beach with Sam and Tara, but then it turned out that Tara needed to go home and I couldn’t of stayed there for the night. When they would of stayed in one of their friends place, like they thought at first, I could have been in the beach.

Tomorrows gonna be work day again, so I better get some sleep.

Gn and hf!

14. Jan 2009

Well today is the last day in Jenolan, so we are doing nothing at the moment. We are going shooting today and should do some packing too, but at the moment don’t care much actually. Yesterday had last work day and day before that was the last day in the kitchen.

Last day in the kitchen was kind of as usual, tho this time I didn’t do much, because most of prep was already done and I had no point doing more for next day, because I wasn’t going to be here anyways.

But yesterday was awesome, we had to work for James, clean his “garage”, which was full of shit and we had to take all of it down the mountain. We also got these overalls, like felons have, but James didn’t find orange ones, but still it was cool. Emptying the garage was easy, but taking it down not so easy. Was pretty good workout. Also there was like really steep hill next to road down and under the hill there were the flats. We almost dropped the cupboard down the hill, but luckily the tree stopped it, but it didn’t matter because later on Adam anyways pushed it down, so now someone has to get ropes and clean the hill of all the cupboard pieces. There was one more funny situation during moving. There was one old TV, which was actually broken and which we had to take down. I was trying to throw the TV screen, the tube or how ever you call it on the lower level, but it actually started rolling down the hill and when it reached down the hill there was that big boom. Scared the shit out of me and then James were yelling at as: “What the hell was that?”. Everybody started laughing. James didn’t get mad and he said that if anyone asks we slipped :P. During cleaning the garage also there was an situation when James yelled that “Stop, don’t move”, I didn’t understand what and how he was saying that and turned out that I had that huge spider on me, bit scary, but everything turned out well.

After we got everything done James said that there’s cold beers waiting for us in the bistro, we finished all up and went down to the bistro, had some beers. After that had an shower, got something to eat and then we went for a swim. It was awesome, hadn’t swam for a long time and there was a place where we could jump too, so I could practice jumping again, tho with the last jump I hit my ass :P, but I will survive.

Few days ago I had some problems with my stomach, it was hurting a lot, didn’t have much appetite either, almost would of gone to see the doctor, but as I don’t like them a lot I decided to wait and see. Now it’s a lot better and I have my appetite back, tho it’s not the best still, I am not so worried anymore.

Tomorrow we are going to leave and I don’t know when is the next time I will update my blog, but I hope it is soon. I think I haven’t written it yet, that I broke my computers charger and so I can’t use my computer at the moment, I’m using Kaupos. When I get to Sydney I’ll try to find new one, also I need to buy new thongs (no, not the ones that girls are wearing :P).

I want to get a tattoo :P. That is kind of the reason I have been looking for different kinds of quotes for so long time. Finally I have chosen some. Oh, and the tattoo would be on top of my back and would be written with white ink, so it would look like a scar a bit. Kaupo’s computer is dieing, so time to finish it up. Here’s the quotes I’m thinking about:

Happiness is not

pleasure. It is

victory.

I love not man the less, but Nature more…

Embrace the pain and you will win this game.

The things you own end up owning you.

3. Jan 2009

Haven’t written for ages, even that long that I have started to forget about some stuff I have done, tho not that I have done so much. It has been like half the month that I haven’t written. So we have had Christmas and New Year’s Eve in that time. After Christmas it got really busy at work and I haven’t had many days off. During New Years Eve was first time in my life I reckon, that I have had home sickness, not like a big one, but kind of started thinking what are the people doing in Estonia. Thought also about my family and that I’m missing quite a lot from their lives, especially the young ones, which actually really surprised me, so I’ll put it under home sickness :P.

Christmas and New Year’s Eve went real quietly, read working :P. We had a little party after these both occasions with the people who are working here. Bit sad that we had to work, but I think it was for greater good, so after we have finished working here we have enough money to get by for awhile. We are trying to save like 6000 dollars by the time we have finished here before going to Tasmania on 17th, at the moment we both have around 5000.

Oh, I haven’t written about our plan yet. We bought plane tickets to Tasmania, the plane is leaving on 17th January from Sydney. We are thinking about going to Sydney little bit before that to buy some stuff and catch up with people, like Danielle and maybe Jaye. Jo should be in Tasmania with his family by the time we go to Sydney, so we can’t see him, but maybe we will see him in Tasmania. Well it Tasmania we want to do our licenses and Kaupo was also thinking maybe we will find a work for a bit too, so we could stay there for free :P, but we will see about that. At first we thought about going there by boat, but we didn’t find any boats going from Sydney, only from Melbourne, so after we are done in Tazzie we might go to Melbourne by ferry and go see Kaupo’s uncle who is living there.

One thing I have thought about, that would be cool to do, but it’s gonna take lots of time and there are other buts too. Anyways the thing I would like to do is to go to Canada, get a motorbike and drive all the way down to the south, as far as I can. But first I gotta see how things go around here, how I like it. And I think I don’t want to do it alone either. That’s besides that I wanna go to New Zealand and Tibet too :P. Big dreams, short life.

One more thing that I want to talk about is that, our head chef, Owen, offered me that I could do apprenticeship, to become a chef. I have been thinking about it, that it could be quite interesting, but becoming a chef takes like 3-4 years. Well studying something takes some time I know, but I don’t like staying in one place for so long :P. Studying to become a chef is actually quite easy, you are learning new stuff by working, there is school too, but you have to go there only in the beginning for a while and after that there is like after awhile different tests, where you have to show your cooking abilities on different fields, plus there is some homework you have to do, well its not that easy actually when to think about it :P. Tho, good news is that while I’m doing it I could travel around bit too, because usually people who are studying it are working in one place around a year and then going to different place, probably its possible to move around even more. Another good point about is that you basically get paid of doing all that, in the beginning you will be paid to get chef stuff, you will be paid some extra annually, plus you earn money when working, all schooling expenses are paid by the place you work in. So I’m thinking about it, but I’m not sure, it can become quite boring sometimes. There’s still time to decide, so I’m not hurrying with the decision, besides I want to travel at the moment.
Ok, what good has happened around here. My supervisor, not the chef, but James, the manager gave me to cartons of beer because I helped him move :P. In here people usually buy beers by cartons, which is 24x 325 ml. Tho beer is lighter than in Estonia too, its usually 4,7% Toohey’s New, 5% for Extra Dry, these are the beers we are usually drinking around here. Yeah, been drinking quite a lot actually lately :P, but what ever, I’m here to have fun and enjoy myself. Also we have had BBQ all this week, and basically everyone of us in the kitchen has had a go and all of this has become kind of competition, who is earning most money one day. Sam started all of this, he earned 600 or 800 dollars with one day, then Zev had a go, he earned 1100. Then it was my turn, I earned 1200. I had another go next day, but the grill didn’t work, so I moved to bistro and did some of it there, but it didn’t count as a BBQ, we just had to get rid of the stuff we had made ready. Today (yesterday) it was Zev’s turn again, but he still couldn’t manage to beat my record, tho it was a close one 1160. He will have another go tomorrow and on Sunday its me again. So I’m the BBQ king at the moment and I’m doing my best to keep it that way :P.

We have 5 new people working in here. Two boys and one girl from England, one girl from Ireland and one Aussie guy, who wants to become an apprentice. All of them are quite fun, but also kind of weird their own way too. Can’t actually explain, have to see it yourself. Well about the new girls, the one from England is quite pretty, but bad thing is that she already has a boyfriend, on of the English guys. Anyways things look kind of sad from this side, not much chance with these girls around here :P.

I’m trying to read a book by Zig Ziglar “Something to smile about”, which is really good actually, to keep motivation up, also it has some real good stuff to learn too. Tho I’m only on the 69th page at the moment :P. But I’m trying not to hurry too much with it, if I have time I’ll read one or two chapters before going to bed. And I actually feel much happier than I have ever been, tho work is dull sometimes or I’m tired quite often or there’s not much to do around here, don’t know if it is a good or bad sign, but I think the feeling still isn’t good enough to settle down around here, gotta move around, besides I didn’t arrive that long time ago, there’s heaps to do and as everyone told me I can always come back.

Didn’t write much about what I have done, but if I’ll remember anything good, I’ll try to write it here and I’ll try to find some time to write instead of drinking. Oh, I got answers from some of the people who I wrote Christmas cards. My mom, who wanted me to write some more, but I didn’t feel like it. My dad, who said that it was nice to get a card in there and then started talking about how good was it in Cuba. Also got answers from Heigo and Eek, who’s letters really made me happy, so thank you both. Tho my answers to you weren’t much, because only time I have had the chance to answer were after work, when I was exhausted. Also Kati answered me and she was happy too. Sometimes its just good to know that there are people who care about you, so thanks to all and tho I’m far, far away, I’m still around and still here for all.

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
“Humble people don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”
“If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
“Much of what we see depends on what we are looking for”
“People forget how quickly you completed a job, but they will remember how well you did it.” (don’t like the quotes about work, but this helps me to get by of some things at work)
“When you are the right kind of person, doing the right thing, help and encouragement come from all directions”
“It’s not just the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog”
“How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live”
“Our future would be assured if we did as much today as we expect to do tomorrow.”
“A person is no greater than his or her dreams, ideals, hopes, and plans. A person dreams the dream and dreams of fulfilling it. It’s the dream that makes the person”
“Problems produce patience; patience produces persistence; persistence produces character; character produces hope; hope produces power.”

Good night, sweet dreams!

16. Dec 2008


Haven’t written anything for a while, so I think it’s time to write some down. Tho I haven’t done basically anything :P. So what has happened after last time I wrote. Emm… work… more work… staff Christmas party and that’s pretty much it. Have ran around here also few times with Kaupo, trying to keep myself fit and it seems that I am doing much better at running than I have ever done and I am in mountains. I actually feel myself really good also, except the fact that I haven’t gotten much sleep lately, because have been working a lot. Like tonight I didn’t get any sleep at all, because I got to bed like 1 am this morning, couldn’t get any sleep and then the time was already 2 am when I looked at it and I had to be up like 6 am so I decided to stay up for the night. Today did brekkie and after this got like 4 hours of sleep :P. What ever, tonight have to go to the party to, Jo got 21 today, it’s gonna be a long night.

Also we got new people working here now, because Agathe and Rosie are leaving tomorrow, Chris already left, Jo is leaving after Christmas, Jaye is leaving on 20th December and we are leaving soon too, not sure exact time tho. We got two French guys, one girl from Thailand and one more girl, but have seen her only once. And someone more is coming if I’m correct.

Nothing new about future plans.

19. Dec 2008

It hasn’t been so long since I wrote last time, but there has been couple of things that has happened, like Jo’s birthday and last night going to the pub. I haven’t talked much about drinking in here, because I don’t see that it is so important, but this time I have to talk about it a bit.

Jo himself started drinking already after work, like 5 pm in the bistro, later on he had a dinner with Agathe in the restaurant and after that we went up to the flats for the party. Usually we have been drinking beer, but this time we didn’t have no beer, we only drank whisky, bourbon, scotch. Well the beer in here aren’t so good anyways, for me it is real hard to get drunk only from drinking the beer (beers are lighter than in Estonia), but otherwise the taste of the beers are alright, maybe at first needs a bit to get used to. Anyways everybody got really drunk. Party was calming down already when me and Kaupo got a phone call to the flat that we should go down to reception, that there is some kind of problem. When we got there it turned out that Agathe had called the police, because Raphael had hit her, but I think she was bit over reacting, because she was alright and that was an accident probably. Lynett came down there from her home because of that, I think the police woke her up to see what’s going on. So while she was trying to understand what is the problem about I threw up in front of the reception :P. So then it was time for me to go to sleep. Next day had to go to work. When I woke up in the morning I felt shit, like really shit and through all day. I was always ready to run to the sink to spew :P. In the morning it turned out that Frenchies had gotten fired (Jo, Raphael and Lorenzo, Agathe had finished her work anyways). At that moment I was like wtf, if anything going to happen to me too, because I had threw up in front of reception. But the reason actually why they had gotten fired was because after I had gone to sleep they went to the room that Jo had gotten for his birthday for free and did some wrestling there. Were noisy and ruined the room. All of them left that day, bit sorry for them, especially the 2 new guys who had been here only for 2-3 days.

And well yesterday we went to Lithgow to the pub with Sam, Tara, Jaye and Kaupo. It was actually quite boring in there, drank a bit and just sat there, doing nothing, checking out the girls. And I think I saw there so far the most beautiful Australian girl, I wanted to get her name, but by that time she had already left, I was too late :(. Anyways I told Jaye and Sam if they see her again, they gotta get her name for me :P. So long I will enjoy the song by Darin “Who’s that girl”.

About plans, not much still :P, decided to leave this place before New Year and thinking of spending New Years eve in Sydney, with Jo and Agathe, probably Jaye too. And after that go to Tasmania and make our licenses there. Maybe do some fruit picking too. Nice plan tho, but we will see how it all works out.

Catch ya’ later!

Darin “Who’s that girl”

I saw her last night
Standing in the crowd
And in a sudden flash of glory
I was blinded
And though everything was moving
My hole world came to stop
Now I need to know
Please I need to know

Who's that girl, tell me what's her name
Who's that girl, does she feel the same
Who's that girl, this is no ordinary crush
If I have to I'll go halfway round the world
Who's that girl

Angel eyes of mine
Where have you gone to
Were you really here
Or was it just a dream
In a sea of smiling faces
Someone special caught my eyes
Now I need to know
Please I need to know

Who's that girl, tell me what's her name
Who's that girl, does she feel the same
Who's that girl, this is no ordinary crush
If I have to I'll go halfway round the world

Who's that girl
In the white dress
With the deep blue eyes
And the magic smile
hHas anybody seen her

And though everything was moving
My hole world came to stop
And now I need to know
Please I need to know

Who's that girl
Who's that girl
Who's that girl
If I have to I'll go halfway around the world
Who's that girl

Who's that girl
Who's that girl, this is no ordinary crush
If I have to I'll go halfway round the world
Who's that girl

Has anybody seen her

5. Dec 2008

Hey again. It’s been quite some time that I have written here last. But that’s not because I’ve been lazy, either because there has nothing happened or there has happened quite a few things and I just haven’t had the chance to write anything.

But actually I won’t write anything here yet what I have done. I am quite tired so everything I shortly say is that we can’t do our licences in NSW. We went to Lithgow and Katoomba, did some shopping and after that did the Six Foot Track again. Just got back today. We had few drinks and now I ready to bed. I kind of got pissed today too, with no reason and not obviously. I mean that we were having drinks with bunch of people, later on one guy and lady came to the bar and someone started talking with them, guy made some card tricks and was ok. I didn’t have anything against it. Only thing that might have been annoying was people talking over each other and disrupting, when talking, but I am kind of used to it and that’s what happens if there is many people. But the thing pissed me off when Rosie started screaming and was kind of moody with no reason. She is nice girl, but somehow this was last I could stand and I decided to come to bed, and I don’t really know the real reason. People kind of seemed to be quite drunk too and I felt too sober to just stay there, because there is more better things to do than just doing nothing. Anyways it made me feel better now after I have written it and it is time to go to bed, so I will talk about what I have done later.

Tomorrow gonna see if we can do the Mammoth tour, not sure if we can, it might be booked up, so gotta wake early. Maybe in the evening we are going to Megan’s birthday, we weren’t invited directly tho, but Rosie wants us to come with her I think, mostly Kaupo. We will see about it. So long, good night.

6. Dec 2008

I think I haven’t written here so early before, but the reason I am doing it is because the Mammoth tour is booked up and there isn’t much else to do.

We are having week off at the moment and have already been off from work since Monday, so it’s 6th day today and I am feeling awesome. On our first day we went to Lithgow to do some shopping, Sam took us there. First thing was that we found ourselves a place to stay at night, actually Sam did. We stayed in one pub in there, which was actually quite expensive, tho it looked like those cheap motels from American movies, that place was quite alright, small, but we had our own bathroom and breakfast was in the price.

We got in Lithgow quite late, so most stores were closes. We spent little time to get to know the place, bought our dinner, ate and went to sleep. In the morning woke up quite early to have breakfast, check out and go shopping. They let us to leave our bags in there, so it was good.

We went to see bikes, went to second hand store where we found few things. I found bongos that I wanted, but I didn’t buy them yet, because I didn’t want to carry them all the day. We found some cards that we are going to send to Estonia. Also I bought that Christmas hat, don’t know how you call it and hairspray :P. Looked for joggers and sleeping bag too, saw couple of them that would have been good, but joggers they didn’t have the sizes I needed and sleeping bag I hoped to get a better one, so decided to get them from Katoomba then. I bought another pants for Six Foot Track and more sporty. We found one place where we got some cheap nuts too, otherwise all the nuts in Coles and other stores are fukin expensive, like 10 bucks for small pack, so we just had to buy some :P. Kaupo was trying to find a jumper, but didn’t find a good one.

We headed to Katoomba now, because we hoped that there will be cheaper place to stay, we find the stuff we need and we had to go there anyways to do the Six Foot Track. Got our bags from the pub, I bought my bongos and we went to train station and waited for the train. On our way to Katoomba I fell a sleep on the train, but I still managed to see some breathtaking views of the mountains.

When we got to Katoomba, one guy started talking about Jesus with us and said that Katoomba is the place where you have to find yourself or you die or something like that, what ever. And he also asked us to come to Spain in the year 2011, something youth thing is happening then.

We went to the backpackers and got ourselves a room in there. Left our stuff in there. And once again because it was quite late all the stores were closed so we just looked around. Went to Coles, get some food for the night and then got few beers also. Headed back to backpackers, ate, drank some beer and went to bed.

In the morning once again woke up quite early, because others were coming there quite early. Had quick shower and after that it turned out that they are already in Katoomba, so we had quick breakfast, checked out and went to see where they are. Surprisingly we took another way and found them straight away, because they were in the other place we thought. Jo was in the Coles, we left our bags next to the car and went to see him and buy some stuff.

In Coles we bought some sausages, noodles, beans and something more too I think, but don’t remember all. After that we went to the liquor store to buy some Jack, but Jo left his ID in the car so we couldn’t get it, stupid rules here, asking ID from everyone who you are with. We went to the car, Jo grabbed his ID and we went to find gas for our gas stove, I needed sleeping bag and joggers too. So we went to see couple of stores, but didn’t find any gas. I got my sleeping bag tho, it was more expensive than I hoped for, but also I got smaller one too than I thought I would. We also bought the Jacks we wanted before, now when Jo had his ID with him. I remembered that Judith had bought the gas for us last time from Coles I think, so we went to see there again. We did find the gas from there, but I was still missing joggers, so I went to K-Mart next door. I didn’t find as good joggers I hoped I would, but I needed them real badly and they were actually quite cheap. In general I think I am happy.

So we all packed our bags again near car and Hugh took us all to the Six Foot Track starting point, tho he needed to make 2 trips. That’s how our second Six Foot Track journey started.

Beginning was quite easy, tho I think my bag was heavier than last time, but it wasn’t so bad, little harder to go down than last time maybe. Rest of the first day trip was quite boring, girls were quite dead in the end of the first day and they actually wanted to quit and go home. But it wasn’t going to happen that evening, because there was problem with getting signal and no one could pick them up this evening too.

So we set up our camp again in the same place we did last time. Jo saw a snake in there, when we went swimming there, I wanted to see it too, but it already left by the time I got there. Me and Jo went to get some water from camping grounds near us, where there was fresh water, because we actually had drank quite a lot of water that day and needed more for dinner and morning. We set up our tents, made fire and cooked food. Later on made sausages on fire, drank Jack and just chatted. After girls went to sleep we stayed up for a bit and just sat and talked, but not for very long because we were actually quite tired.

In the morning I was the first one up, made fire and walked around a bit. It was beautiful actually and only noises you heard were the river, some fishes in the river sometimes and wild animals, just wonderful. Little bit later Jo waked up and after that Kaupo. We were just sitting there and waited for girls to wake up. Rosie got up first and I think she was really hungry because first thing she did was made some pasta for herself. Anyways after her we made some beans to get our bags lighter and cooked sausages on fire. After all got up and had eaten, we packed up our camp and moved on. We got to the swing bridge and there me and Kaupo actually found another real cool camping place, but not this time. After little walking we reached to camping ground, there we filled up our water bottles.

After that the hardest part of our trip started. And the girls decided to stay with us. I just went in front, because I wanted to go in my own pace and not to worry about others, because I knew how hard it is and had enough problems of getting myself up from the mountain. Actually girls did really good there. Kaupo helped Rosie and Agathe just made stops every 2 min, but in general all got up in one piece. During our way up I managed to see 2 snakes and one fukin big lizard, SCAREY. When we got the hardest part done we decided to continue walking for a while, so it would be easier next day. We passed the 15 km sign and I found us a quite good camping place, only problem was tho the ground, it was real hard, but we had to survive, because we wouldn’t have found a better place that night.

We set up our camp in middle of nowhere in the mountains and in the bush. Nothing special, but we were real tired and that place did well for us. Usual thing, put up tents, light a fire and made some food, of course we finished Jack. Went to sleep, but before we put all we could find on the ground, so it would be softer.

In the morning there was some rain, but nothing real heavy and anyways we were still sleeping at that time. This time Jo was first one up, then Kaupo, but I stayed to sleep for a bit more. And girls were the last ones up. We had our breakfast, packed up and started walking again. I felt really good in the morning actually, nothing really hurt badly, maybe only shoulders where I got little sunburnt, but not like muscles or anything much. And this time I had done much better than last time, didn’t have so many breaks and had been faster than others so far. Tho there was a moment when my bag got really heavy for me, that was like half way through second day, but at lunch time got it little lighter and Kaupo and Jo helped me.

We were quite low on water so we had to save as much water as possible in that evening and morning. So when we started walking in the morning only thing I was thinking about was reaching the water. On our way to the camping grounds where the water is we passed through three other guys doing the Six Foot Track, but the other way. When I reached the camping grounds I filled couple of bottles, drank as much as I could and waited for others. So when they reached there they had fresh water straight away.

In there we stopped for a while. We ate as much as we could and tried to make our bags as light as we could. We ate a lot, left few things behind too tho. After like hour or two break we packed up and started walking again. We only took two bottles of water each, because Jenolan wasn’t so far anymore and bags were light. That part we just kept going to reach to Jenolan, so only few small stops. Near Jenolan Caves Cottages, we met Hugh who had started walking to meet us too. So there we had little longer break. After that we kept going, near the Cottages there were kangaroos eating on the field and others stayed there to feed them, but me and Rosie just kept going. And we kept going till we reached Jenolan.

In Jenolan we went to the bistro, had cold drinks and just sat there for a while. Then we went to take a shower and after that we headed to the bar to have a beer. Rosie was already there with Hugh and Gary, so we joined them. Later on Jo came there also. We sat there pretty much whole evening and drank few beers and later started drinking rum with coke. I think everyone got drunk really easily, because not much food and we just finished the Six Foot Track. And anyways I already talked about that night.

So this should be enough for the moment.

Time to go to eat.