Months and months I have been looking forward, saving money and bit by bit my trip to Australia 2014 got its shape. And now it's over, in a couple of hours I am in the plane back home. The very long flight form 14 hours and 45 minutes to Abu Dhabi, followed by the plane to Amsterdam. I am supposed to arrive in our capital city tuesday afternoon at 14.00 local time. Last year I had troubles going back to normal life, but this time I m actually looking forward to g...

Since when does the ground feel like a sea too? Ever since I left my sailboat this morning, I still feel like being on the sea, quietly going up and down. But wow, I have seen some amazing things the last few days. Friday afternoon at 12.30 pm was the time to meet the crew from Boomerang, as the boat was called. We were with a group of 28 people, mostly Europeans. I was lucky to be fast in the boat, now I had a bed for myself. I'm glad with the name Boomerang, b...

Sometimes the wireless connections are a b**** to me here, but now I have a steady one, in the bus to Airlie Beach. Time to tell you about Magnetic Island, my place for 24 hours yesterday. I did manage to get up early enogh to catch another ferry, the 7.45 one from Townsville. Funny to see how this place looks like with daylight, I only saw it in the middle of the night with a sleepy head. This ferry only needed 20 minutes, so with a connecting bus I was in my Y...

From now on I am not sure how regular I can make blogs for the days that I have to go, so I make the two about both Islands that I have visited these days. Tuesday was a day on Fitzroy Island. To get there we had to take a 45 minutes lasting ferry ride. I usually love ferries, they remind me of the holidays we had when I was a kid. We never went to foreign countries, but to the islands in the north of our country, with a ferry. So yes, this was a nice one too. Th...

I am still in the sunshine state without any sunshine today. The day began early, because the bus picked me up at 6.55 am for a tour to Cape Tribulation. They advertise this as a tour to a place where Reef meets Forest, so that sounded promising. The first stop was at Port Douglas, and I was surprised to find out that I apparently booked the whole package, this means that a visit to the Zoo and a lunch later was included. Unexpected, because I booked this trip b...