Montag, 14. September 2009

Shannon and Silvia in Vorarlberg


Unfortunately the photos are not in chronological order...but trip-wise they are. The first few photos are from a hike we did on saturday. The weather was not perfect, but the walk was worth it as we got served an awesome gulasch-soup up on the hut on 2385m.

The walk looks actually more difficult than it was!
Cait with a lake and a sea of fog in the background
Caitlin did not tell me what Mr. Root said, but it must have be some stupid comment hence this reaction.

The next picture was taken on a walk through the Rappenloch-Gorge which is carved about 70m into the rocks of Gütle-valley. Pic of gorge will be added soon.

Another trip was leading us over the boarder to the beautiful island-town of Lindau at lake constance.
In Cafes at the promenade, or on top of the old light house you can enjoy magnificent views of the lake.



Some old building in Lindau. The old town hall if I recall correctly


On the Hohe Kugel-Mount our lil Austrian-Australian-crew was jumping frolicly due to the nice vistas and terrific weather conditions.



Montag, 20. Juli 2009

Malaysia and a bit of Thailand...

Hello down under,

this is a lil travel-blog entry from our travels through peninsular Malaysia

After flying out of Melbourne we arrived in Kota Bharu that monday eve, went out to the night market stocked up on dried calamari to get ready to the trip to the islands.





Whilest on our arrival day the sun was still a bit shy, we had beautiful weather and conditions for snorkeling the next day. Besides sharks bigger than 1m, giant turtels and heaps of fish, we saw the most amazing coral reefs we have ever seen.




Beside all the marine wildlife we could also spot massive monitor lizzards...


From the Perhentian islands we traveled to Taman Negara, which is apperantly the oldest jungle in the world....even older then the oldest jungle in the world in Australia....the have the oldest everywhere....especially in Malaysia.
We did nice walks where we could observe plants and also heaps of insects. We did a canopy walk up to 30 meters up in the trees, went swimming in the river and dined at the floating restaurants.



We had to be very carefull as there are still tigers living in this jungle. the photo above shows how to get away if a tiger shows up.Besides tigers there are other dangerous things such as the "mean strangling root"....
....and more weird plants and little nice insects...













After our jungle experience we stayed for a night in buzzing Kuala Lumpur. China town is very busy, colorfull and every street stall owner tries to convince you to buy his products. You can get anything from food to genuine rollex watches (really cheap!!!)....dvd's and juwelery and more and more...
From KL we flew to Phuket, where we drove around on a scooter, watched Thais play Sepatakra at the beach (like volleyball without hands),drank out of pineapples and ate amazing thai food....here we also went surfing.....without wet-suit...terrific!!

Dienstag, 5. Mai 2009

Camping mit den Vorarlbergern

Nach einigen Verzoegerungen aufgrund des Abhandenkommen des Passes schafte es Samuel letzten Montag doch noch in Melbourne anzukommen, sodass wir das Auto voll packten und in die Grampians Berge zum Campen fuhren. Der Campingplatz lag vor an einem See, der leider ein bisschen ausgetrocknet war und hatte eine schoene Sicht Richtung Bergkette. (naechstes Foto wurde am Grunde des Sees aufgenommen)

Um in den Naechten nicht kalt zu werden, sammelten wir gehoerig Brennholz und machten ein Feuer um uns warm zu halten.
Neben den schoenen Landschaften konnten wir auch viele Tiere beobachten, die einen waren wilder als manch andere.

Ausserdem konnten wir auch ein Paar uralte Hoehlenmalereien ankucken...

Dienstag, 21. April 2009

Ostern mal anders

Zu Ostern sind wir mit Freunden raus aus der Stadt aufs Land gefahren um auf einer Wiese (ohne richtiges Grass) die einem Onkel unserer Freundin Heidi gehoert, Autorally und Motocross zu fahren. Heidi's unzaehlige anwesende Proleten-Freunde und -familienangehoerige sorgten dabei fuer lustige Unterhaltung...

Troy der wilde Teifel jagt seine Cross uebers Feld und ein bisschen durch die Luft...

....waehrend Caitlin auf dem Motorrad eher gemuetlich unterwegs war.


Der Osterhase war auch anwesend und hat am Morgen Ostereier vor die Zelter gelegt...
...ein Hase zu sein kann in Australien aber auch gefaehrlich sein...gut dass der "Jaeger" nicht hingeschaut hat.
Neben Hasen wurden auch Oppossums (aehnelt einem Siebenschlaefer) gejagt. Verrueckt!!!

Verschiedene "Substanzen" landten ausserdem im Feuer und brachten Farbe in dieses Outdoor Wochenende...