Australia - East coast

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:08:36 +0000

Within 3 weeks I’ve travelled the Australia East Coast. I’ve started in freezing cold Sydney and took a flight to Brisbane. From Brisbane I’ve travelled with the Greyhound buses up to Cairns and had a stop in Rainbow Beach (Fraser Island) and my favourite place Airlie Beach (Withsundays).

My personal highlight of this trip was the diving in the Great Barrier Reef. With Prodive, the biggest diving company in Australia, I’ve spent 2 days in the training center and 3 days on their boat with other divers. I accomplished the courses for the Open Water certificate which allows my to dive down to 18 meters and I also received the Adventure Diver certificate which allows my to dive down to 30 meters. This experience wasn’t cheap, but worth every penny. The scenery was absolutely astonishing, the colourful corals let you feel like you ended up on a another planet. Thanks to the experienced instructors (most of them have done over 2000 dives) I was able to see some rare creatures like a Lionfish, Elizabeth’s Chromodoris and a Manta Ray. Definitely a memory I’ll never forget.

This time I’ve added 2 more pictures to the usual 10, enjoy it:

Of course I got a picture from the Sydney Opera House. The hole building is like a big bathroom, the walls and roffs a covered with bathroom tiles.

A monument in Sydney Hyde Park. It's only beautiful there during the night time and evening.

I forgot about the name of thais plant. Our guide in the blue mountains described this pine as the most australish plant. It seeds only due to bushfires.

The three sister peaks are very popular for the a ablue mountain sightseen. What most tourists don't know is the funny fairy tale about these cliffs. Look it up on Google. It's worth it.

Koalas, they stink, don't do anything else than sleeping and eating. They're boring as fuck. But they're so cute <3 Look at him!

Le me doing a backflip on a dune in the most boring town on the east coat. People only go to Rainbow beach for a Fraser island trip.

You'll find this ship wreck on Fraser island. The interesting thing is the funny story about how this ship ended up here.

It's not cheap but an awesome adventure. The Fraser island are definitely worth seeing.

A beautiful morning in Cairns. This was the start of my 3 day Great Barrier Reef trip.

The withsundays, some say it's the most beautiful beach in Australia.

A gorgeous coral scenery at Flynn Reef - Tracey's Bommie.

Found him! Wasn't that difficult to find Nemo.

Summer break

Thu, 29 May 2014 15:36:13 +0000

This summer I’m going to travel around the world. Based on the idea one month one country, I’ll visit Thailand/Malaysia, Australia and America.

Here on my blog I want to share this experience with you. I’ll show you how I’ve planned this trip, what I’m going to take with me and finally share my most favourite pictures of this journey.

Let’s start with the planning. To keep my notes, documents and thoughts together, I’m using Microsofts OneNote, it’s the perfect tool for this kind of task as it’s very easy to handle and is able store any kind of note.

In addition I save important documents such as vouchers or IDs in my OneDrive online storage, in case my document will be lost or stolen I still can retrieve them online.

In OneNote I’ve made a timeline with the most important events, stops and flights:

Based on this table my travel agency booked the flights and events. I was amazed that they could book the flights without an exception according to my table, I didn’t even had to rewrite it once.

I recommend to book the flights half a year before the first flight, otherwise it’s getting more difficult for the travel agency to book the flights you’ve asked for.

Australia on Janik von Rotz