Farming down under

Hi, back again!
A lot of things happend since my last Blog-update. Micha, Katja and I went down to Jindabyne near the Snowy Mountains, but then then went further on to the south and I wanted to go on the highest mountain of Australia. It's the Mt Kosciuszko with ~2230m (big big mountain...) and it's quite crowded on the top, was not the best walk I did here but it was a funny feeling to be on the highest point of this continent (2 pictures)! The other picture with the dead trees gives an impression how it looks like after a big fire, which happens quite often during summertime.
But then I decided ( because it's called Work&Travel and not only Travel, thanks Alex for reminding me=)) to do something useful and now I'm working on a Farm near Canberra since one week and I will be there for about two more weeks, before I 'll fly to NZ in the beginning of February.
They have more than 2500 trees with apples and pears, some vegetables, chickens, sheep, one cow (it's more a pet and it doesn't do anything except feeding) and one horse. So I'm doing a lot of different things on the farm and it's interesting, especially moving the henshouses and therefore catching all the chickens and bringing them to their new home was very funny!! But mostly they sell the apples and the pears, all the other things (eggs, vegetables, ..) are for themselves or custumers coming to the farm to buy some things. One picture shows me with one of the pte-shppe and the other picture shows the clouds after a big thunderstorm on the farm. It was a great view!!
Perhaps I'll post some more pictures of the farm soon.
See you!

Funny animals and stuff

Hi!
Here I'm again. After we started successfully the year 2006 in Sydney we went southern along the coast (which was a very good decision because it's not that hot than in Sydney!) and grabbed some very funny pictures of some parrots and some wallabies (therefor you should have a look on Michas and Katjas blog, I put the link in my linklist on the right) in the Murramarang NP. (I'm sorry I'm not able to turn the picture of me and the parrots, it's this odd mac problem...)
And one evening we try to catch a crab (and in the end we were successful, what a great adventure=)) and cooked it afterwards. The arms with the claw (or whatever it's called) were really tasty but the body was 80% digestive tract, so that wasn't very tasty at all...Next time we'll try to catch prawns, I hope they'll be more tasteful than this crab.
The Beach was a really nice spot at Jervis Bay where we went snorkeling and we saw sting rays, a lot of fishes, one nice jellyfish and Micha and Katja saw even saw two blowfishes!!
Now we're in Canberra celebrating Petra's birthday, having a shower, ... and tomorrow I'll head to the Snowy Mountains.

Happy new Year!!!

Happy new year to everbody!! I hope you've got a great Party and a graet start to 2006!!
After I've left the Grampians NP I went to Batenams Bay to spend Christmas together with Petra, Doug, his father Harold and his twinbrother Eric and Betty. On the picture you can see Petra, Doug, Harold, me and our lovely Christmast-Tree on the Beach =)!
But there is no comparison to christmas in Germany!!! It's completely different.
Afterthat, I met Micha and Katja in the Blue Mountains and to New Year we saw teh amazing firewokrs of Sydney Harbour!! We've got a nice spot in one of the suburbs of Sydney, were we've got a nice view on the Harbour Bridge and the Skyline of Sydney. One of the pictures shows the view we've got at our nice little Beach. And there was a guy on a boat coming around (other picture) selling coffee, ice cream and softdrinks. Very clever, I think he made good money this day.The other two pictures are taken in the Blue Mountains. But it's sticky hot at the moment (35 Grad), so I'm glad to leave this place and go a bit more southern, perhaps to the Snowy Mountains
I wish all of you a great year 2006!
*Martina*