Just come back to Tasmania for a Elements of Shipboard Safety (ESS) course. Yesterday we heard something about Safe Work Practices. It seems that Austrailians like formes and paper work. For everything you need a permission or you have to fill out a form. Today there was a bit of swimming on the program. We learned how to survive in hot and cold water, how to handle life rafts and other safty equipment. It was a great fun. After some basic survival methods in wa...

After half a day in Coober Pedy I drove further south again. I made it to Port Augusta, before I stoped for the night. At the next day, July 5th I decided spontaneously to make a side trip to Kangaroo Island on my way back to Melbourne. So I drove down to Cape Jervis and jumped on the ferry to Penneshaw. I was lucky and I got the ferry at 6 in the afternoon, although I was booked in the ferry at 8:30. But there was still a free space on the earlier ferry. The ne...

After I compleated the Glies Track in the Watarrka National Park, and had a nice evening back in the Kings Canyon resort, I drove back south to Coober Pedy on July 3rd. I arrived there when it was already dark, but this time I decided to drive into the city to have a look for some underground motel or something like that. This first obvious thing I saw was a underground hotel. I stoped and walked in. There was a man at the reception but he said he cannot help me,...

After the Uluru I drove to the Kings Canyon. There is a resort as well, but it's much smaler then the one at the Uluru. Nevertheless I met Julia there. She is from Hamburg and in the same scholarship then I. Once again that shows how small the world is. I drove to the Kings Canyon Resort after I watched the sunrise at the Uluru on June 30th. On the first of July I did the Kings Canyon Rim Walk in the morning. This is a 6 km loop through the canyon. It is said to ...

It is quite a long way to the center of Australia. I left Adelaide on June 27th and drove north. I reached Coober Pedy in the evening and I decided to get some sleep there after a day on the road. It was already dark when I arrived there, so I decided to sleep in the car outside the city. It is always hard to find something in a foreign city, when it is dark and everything is kind of closed already. The next morning I decided to drive further and have a loo...