pictures, pictures and more pictures

I have taken a lot of pictures and I'm preparing a selection. Here are already some, I'll be adding more and more as well as make some post to comment them :)

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Australia: looking for the free camp spot

We arrived yesterday in Sydney after leaving Melbourne on monday. We rented the same type of car again and as it was for a short period, it was more expensive. To compensate we decided to camp as much as possible for free. On Monday We drove to Lorne by the Great Ocean Road and stayed in a free camp spot in middle of the mountains (only toilets without lights). Tuesday we drove to Wilson's Promontory and as a national park We paid 24$ for the camping. Wednesday we stopped near Genoa again in a free camp spot. This one had almost everything as in the past was a real camping: toilets with lights, cold showers, picnic table and BBQ (see picture). Thursday we had a free area in the kangaroo valley in mind, but probably because of the rain and flooding it was closed. But we found a camping in the neighbourhood, which was just 20$ and where we got DVDs for free :)

Australia is wonderful for camping, you don't need to look too hard to find something nice.

Ayer llegamos de nuevo a Sydney después de salir el lunes de Melbourne. Volvimos a alquilar la misma clase de coche y como era sólo una semana, salía mucho más caro. Para compensar decidimos  buscar campings gratis. El lunes fuimos a Lorne por la Great Ocean Road y encontramos un camping gratis en medio de las montañas que sólo tenía dos retretes y sin luz. El martes dormimos en Wilson's Promontory, como es un parque nacional hay que pagar 24$ por el camping. El miércoles encontramos una verdadera joya cerca de Genoa. Tenía casi de todo: baño con luces, duchas con agua fria (el agua caliente es lo único que le falta), mesas de merendero y BBQ! Para el jueves teníamos previsto un camping gratis en el área del "valle del canguro", pero cuando llegamos allí estaba cerrado probablemente por las lluvias y el riesgo de inundación. Pero encontramos otro camping en los alrededores por 20$ y en el que prestaban DVDs gratis :)

To Cape Tribulation

We got as far as Cape Tribulation. Here the view from the lions lookout on the way to Mossman from the Tablelands.


Y llegamos al final de la carretera: Cape Tribulation! Estas son las vistas desde el mirador del león de camino a Mossman desde las Tablelands.

We're missing the crocodiles

So far we have seen and interacted with many of the typical australian animals: we cuddled a koala, hand fed kangaroos, helped little turtles to reach the sea, saw little penguins, swam with sea turtles in the reef.... the only we haven't seen are the crocodiles despite all the warning signals in the north and the couple of walks we did. But who does want to swim with a salty?!

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