This is what we wrote yesterday, just to find out that noone knew the internet password in that bar, so we had to wait one day, and here it is. We are now in Byron Bay, the surfer version of Nimbin (see below).
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A peace and love message to all the world through our blog from the rainbow heart of Australia! We made it to our first goal, Nimbin.
Our plan wasn't actually swiftly executed, but we made it. Our departure on wednesday failed due to our baby car who needed a bit of a fix. So we delayed everything to the day after, and as soon as the sun was up...well, as soon as we had the car at noon...well, as soon as we had the car loaded, the lunch eaten, the housemates saluted, we left. We then got lost in Sydney to try and find our favourite cheap supermarket, failing and going then to one of the most expensive ones, just in time to get stuck in the peak hour traffic.
At sunset, we were safe and happy 100 Km north of Sydney (which in australian distance is about 10 minutes out of Sydney: our first stop was planned 700 Km up), eating our dinner beside a very picturesque lighthouse (and shitting ourselves every time we heard a noise coming from the bush, picturing ourselves eaten by dingoes and found weeks later-we were actually just outside a town which I guess could be considered outskirts of Sydney)
"No worries, tomorrow night we'll be arriving anyway"
We then woke, said good morning, drank coffee and started driving, drove all day, drove far beyond the ipod battery, past the big banana (what a crushing disappointment that was), past tea time and the sunset, and our goal wasn't yet on the horizon.
We decided to stand out in the backpackers crowd driving up and down the coast by leaving the highway and venturing inland, thus exposing ourselves to the risk of kangaroos and koalas crossing the road in the dark and truck drivers driving within the speed limit (100Km/h) in the opposite direction, on a country road not even wide and straight, on the Wrong Side of the road.
The body count was not too bad: 1 possum (might have been a koala, but we like to hope it wasn't; after the kangaroo ragu we made the other day, we don't want to be responsible for any more national symbols slaughter), and 1 Unidentified Flying Object, who made a huge Donk but luckily didn't crack the windscreen.
We slept in a rest area in a town smaller than most of Sydney's supermarkets, admiring the milky way and the way you could hear a car arriving a couple of minutes before it passed the town, to find out the morning after that the outback we were picturing as the toughest desert looks actually like the hobbits' Shire. Maybe we have to go farther inland.
The next morning we arrived in Nimbin. In the 70's a bunch of hippies decided that they had had enough of war, consumerism and pollution, so they left their homes and set out for Nimbin where they created a community based on being auto sufficient in nearly every way, living in harmony with the aboriginals and learning to help each other out in every way, growing their own crops and sharing washing-machines.
They're still there today, and so are we, and every year thay have a hippie festival that we couldn't miss, could we?
From here we dont really know where we are going, we are thinking of harvesting mandarines close to brisbane, but we have to go there to see if they need any more people... we still have money (big plus) and are both very happy (periodically).
we'll write again as soon as we can.
Our new house, our new backyard (on the best days only)
Idillic countryside, Nimbin Rocks (most of the times)
The festival's final parade, people watching it
Hair
Unreal and real police
11 comments:
Great great great. this is what we all want from your trip.
We would like to be all in your car, almost our souls.
enjoy each hour of your wild wild life.
kisses
Hi Guys
Well done, and so the travels continue, dont let people scare u with their horror stories just remember to have at least 2 safety pins handy, useful for everything, I once repaired my car with one, sewing the skin together after a bad accident, keeping your trousers up, the list goes on.Oh and keep at least 5l of water in the car!
Lots of love from Denmark where the sun is shining day after day, Where are u going next??
Glad to see u got a new camera,
lol John
Great luck, lot´s of sun, self-reliance, selfishness as well (never hurt), eat well and stay moving. Lovely to hear from you guys.
mom
indispensable my comment,in my bad english. sob!
wildlife is beautyful in the north of australia! but the people are right too! have a good trip
kisses from galgani's family and me
silva
thank you all lovely parents for your great advice and heartwarming cheer
hows teh local shrubbery treating you?
But even in the sterminated desert of Australia you can update (dawn, secondo babelfish; solo gli italian users possono apprezzare al meglio...)?
So today we have learn something so important:
1. the Australian desert is full of Internet points;
2. the Australian desert is full of fish (when I first read your post I immediately thought the same of Giorgio, but he had already written his comments).
I'll make the parents of the situation: be carefull of scorpions, kangaroos (is it truth the kangaroos love crossing the desert streets during the night so it's too easy to invest one?), koala, snakes and fish.
I think that you have to worry if you find a fish in the desert. If one morning, back at home, you would find a Kangaroos, an echidna of something like that, crossing the river Pesa, I think you would be a little scared about it.
So be careful about fish.
I Think it's enough.
Lots of kiss,
I'm very proud of Yvonne's math lesson and of my postcard,
ciaociao
I just beat Egill 7-0 at pool, drank 2 beers, ate microwave kálbögglar, read your blog and smoked half a cigarette. Nothing more to report. Good to see pictures again.
Peas and carrots.
dicevo...ma per il palio del ciuco a cerbaia tornate?!?
no dice non lo fanno quest'anno perche' non ci siamo.
(in realta' l'ho visto una volta sola e avro' avuto tipo 10 anni)
then i would like to smentisc the fact that we are in the desert. in fact we are working in agriculture, which it's not common in the desert, as the fishes.
we found out pretty surprisingly that in australia they also have countryside with trees and grass and stuff.
we are very aware of the kangaroos on the road, but never hit one so far. and the encounters with locals are rare, and they were drunk (we only went out once on friday night for a pizza at a pub, so they were drunk, and at the town show with cows and horses and people dressed like cowboys and they were getting drunk i think)
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