Waiting for the turtles

Today we drove from rainbow beach to Bundaberg (210 km). Our aim here: see the turtles hatching and laying eggs. It's a matter of time and patience, they said. We can be waiting until 1 in the morning if nothing happens before. It works as following: they assigned you to a group (We're in group 2), rangers patrol the beach for turtle activities, as soon as  something happens the first group is taken to the beach. On the next event, the following group is taken to the beach and so on. Yesterday the first group went at 20 to the beach, group 2 around 22. In between you can watch documentaries or listen to ranger talks... we'll see

Brisbane

Brisbane

A good night sleep

The first two nights in Australia were quite bad, I was constantly waking up feeling very hungry and at 3 am (5 pm CET) I couldn't fall sleep again.
Now we got it, two nights ago we were sleeping in a surf camp, in Arrawarra (not far from coffs harbour), where we could hear the waves of the ocean from the camper. Maybe because of this we were able to sleep through the night in once.
But waking up is also nice, you can hear the birds and the nature around you. Even today, in the city. Last night we stayed at Jacquie's, someone we met in Halong Bay three years ago. She took us to a mountain to see the city and the views were amazing there.
Today we'll be a zoo day

We're set up!

Today we picked our spaceships camper, which was very time consuming: the office was somewhere outside the center, 30 min by train to be exact. From the train station we had to walk about 2 - 3 km and this was the tiring part. It's not far if you're not carrying 15 kg. Fortunately half way a car stopped and a friendly lady asked us "are you going to kea campers?", they dropped us at the door and said "welcome to Australia". Yes, that was the welcome we're needing :)
Next thing after all the paper work was to buy some groceries. And guess what, there was an aldi just around the corner.  Perfect!
Finally we drove to the Hunter valley and for the first time we're going to sleep here. There's enough space, but I think tomorrow we need to arrange our bags in a different way.

We finally arrived!

After 36hours, we're finally in sydney