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Around Sydney

From Brisbane to Sydney

The end of Viti and back to Brisbane

After almost 4 weeks of Viti time…it was time for me to leave this beautifull country. I would like to thank the Verebasaga family, for the lovley company they gave me. The VoliVoli diving team. I really had a good time and too bad i didn’t had more time. Also a big thank you to John and his friends from ClubMasa... Bula and TakiTaki to all I met....

Manta-Ray Island Resort

Beach-Comber

Die Deutschen sind da

What happens when you eat shit!

Beqa Shark feeding

For me this is like a dream comes true....
Diving with: Whittip-, Lemon-, Blacktip-, GreyReef-, Nurse-, Silvertip-, Bull- and Tigersharks!

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I was surfing with this creatures for years. I knew there were in the water but I never saw one! For me it was important to see how this animal are in live how they react to people. Beqa Adventure is an organisation to protect this reef and the sharks. They already got many awards for this project. I knew about this place from my Dive-instructor Maddy from Carins. Thanks for the Info, was great.
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So we went down to 30 meters for the first dive and it didn't took too long, until we were surrounded by 4-5 meter Bull- and Tigersharks. We were diving between almost 15 sharks, which were touching you sometimes. They are so big and powerful this animals, but not aggressive at all to us humans (welll not this time). The best thing was when they were passing me and I got a straight look into his deadly eye. I could feel that he was watching me.

Two dives I'll never forget. Diving unprotected with Bull- and Tigersharks (and many more).

Fotos taken by Beqa Adventures, will get my DVD sent home soon.

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This were our two Shark feeders from Beqa!

It has something to do with there religion.

They believe in the Shark-God or so.

Voli Voli Diving

Nananu I Ra

Surf-Trip with Ryan "Iron" Wright!

After a few nights in ED's Bar and too much BountyRum, me and Ryan (who I met in Tavarua) decided to go surfing for a few days. So we took a cap to Nadi town, where we got a suecide Van (because they drive so creazy, that's why we call them so) to Singatoka "Club Masa". $30 a night, incl dinner and breakfast. It was just me, Ryan, Chris (German) and John (cook) at this joint.We checked the surf in the avo but it was absolutlely blown out. Messy and not surfable! But the german had a go and got his first record of two.... the shortest surf ever...30sec. then he came back.

Surfing Cloudbreak Tavarua

10.08.07 Day trip to Cloudbreak in Tavarua. Pick up 6 o'clock in the mornin... ohhh that's not Fiji-time! Me, Ryan (Oz, Melbourne) and Glen (NZ, Pilot) took the Viti-surf-legend boat out to Tavarua, where we got to the outer reef Cloudbreak. The Worldclass left-hander from endless summer 2. 6 foot offshore.... 4 h surfing straight, what a nice sunburn, even after two layers of suncream. After a nice surf-Day, we had a big night out at ED's Bar. Bounty-Rum....uhhh
The next day was relaxing, until I met Ryan again on the way to town. This night already started at 3 o'clock in the avo and ended for me at 8 o'clock in the morning!!! Big party with Fiji-Locals. Suecide-Tequilla rules!!!

Arriving in Fiji (Viti)

Goodbye from the Germaniens in Brisbane

Ahhhh what a sad day!!! Say goodbye to the two german bastards...Manny the Mammut and Chris die Bremse. It was good fun guys and maybe we will see us in Fiji or Melbourne, who knows. Don't forget to send me a DVD with all the Pictures and movies, MannY!

Puravida guys!
Claudio

Nimbin and Surfersparadise

Short visited by Nimbin, because of its famous cheese and the time was wasting to fast and the trip went to an end. The last day we spent in Surfers Paradise and after that we returned our car in Brisbane. Everything was fine but we had to pay a washing fee. Nevermind, life goes on.

Australia Zoo

The day before we staid in Noosa. As long as we were there, we heard on the radio that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are walking around the town. WoooW. We went surfing and finally we watched the Simpson's movie. Then we had a stay in the Glass House Mountains. We got the first Warning for sleeping in public!!!!
Almost three weeks no warning and then at the last few days, BANG... we even got a flayer, how lovely! But we were just parking, tried Manny to explain to the police man! It's not working Manny, he saw us sleeping!!!!






Australia Zoo. Me Manny and Chris, ah no sorry, wrong just me and Manny. Chris staid in the car because of his broken foot!!!! Sorry for taking the piss Chris. We tried to get him an electric scooter but he didn't want it. Well everybody knows Steve was a great MAN and I would like to say how amazing his Zoo is, but to be honest, it wasn't that great. It's more built up for kids. So it got a bit boring after 20min... The most fun we had was joking around with the Kangaroos and touching and getting too close to the Kolas. Oh and Chris there was an other guy with a scooter, so you wouldn't have been the only one! Result of the day: $40 for 4h Zoo and no blood.

Fraser Island (Team A)

Next destination was Hervey Bay. It is the major access point to Fraser Island. All the people met each other in the Beaches Backpacker. What a good start, we were 1h too late (we already made friends) must be the Germans. We got into a group with 5 other people. Everything was well organised. 2 went shopping, 2 checked all equipment, camping gear and stored all the luggage , 4 got driving instructions. 1x 4WD, 2 tents, 3 slaps of beer, one bottle of Gin and 8 people ready to rock!! But not for long, because we already got stucked after a few minutes! It is said that all the sand on the east coast of Australia eventually ends up at Fraser Island, it is a gigantic sandbar created by thousands of years of long shore drift. Fraser preserves a variety of landscapes, from vast, rolling sand dunes, to dense tropical rainforests and deep mysterious freshwater lakes. What ever... The sand was pretty deep, the beer went pretty quick and it was a lot of fun driving that old 4WD around the island.
1 Day.: a few lakes, a lovely river, a good dinner and a lovely drunk night at the beach. Sorry Malte that you lost your camera again that night.
2 Day.: Driving on he beach (how boring), we saw whales, dolphins and turtles. But what we couldn't see was Liams backpack, because he lost it!
3 Day.: 3 more lakes (lakes again). Chris kicked Manny in his ass and thought he has broken his foot, but he didn't! then on the ferry back to the main island. No food at Subways. Then we were celebrating all together our last night. Which started pretty quiet and ended up in a illegal 3 o'clock swim in the pool.


The Highlights were Lake Wabby, Champagne Pools, Indian Head and our quite good group (Liam, Ali, Emma, Vincent, Charlie, and the three of us) . Also our crazy crusades, where everybody jumped through the car, some banged their heads on the top. Oh, I have just forget to mention our chilly beach parties. Our group was that good, that Malte (German guy) swapped over into our group. Like always, we had fantastic vibrations and breezy atmosphere. We saw Whales, Dolphins, Turtles and Dingos.


Special thanks to: Team B for missing the Ferry and driving so slow!!!! Idiots!

Diving SS Yongala

We should dive the Yongala at 23.07.07. But unfortunately they have canceled this dive because of rough sea.... so we had to change the date and drive back 200km from Airle beach for this dive.... but it was worth it! It was amazing... a 100 years old shipwreck which is now a beautiful reef!!! We saw big marble rays, logger head turtles and sea snakes!!! I Even had one of this sea snakes in my own hands!!! It's the worlds most deadliest snake!!! Just 2 dives, that was just not enough! It is announced as one of the top 10 dive spots in the world. Then after the dive a good old ozzy barbie at the familiar diving company... all that was already perfect, but there where also the two sweet dutch ladies, Jess (my dive buddy ; ) ) and Iris (hi ladies) which made it even better. Thanks to the whole crew it was all perfect, would come back if it wouldn't be that f* expensive :)
Cheers Claudio






Later on we drove to the town of 1770 (Agnes Waters). The things are less hectic in the beautiful and tranquil town. Very nice beaches, actually we wanted to go for a surf, but the waves were not that good.
By the way, one of the reasons why it is good to travel with a campervan is to sleep where you want, to go where you want and to always be comfy with a microwave, fridge, cooking facilities. So it didn’t matter what happened, we were always cruisy on the road. Not to forget Homer J.Simpson who was showing us he right way in front of the windscreen!!!

Withsunday islands

Next place to be was Ayr and Alba Beach to go diving the SS Yongala, but they postponed the dive, because of the strong current and windy weather.
So we rode down to Airlie Beach and caught our sailing boat to Whitsunday Island. Our ship was the SV Whiteheaven. We had an awesome trip, met lovely people from France, Chile, Netherlands (the best Borad imitation i have ever seen), Sweden, England, Australia and Denmark. Saw sand, whiter than white, laughed that our six pack hurt and ate that our assholes burnt. On our return way to Port Airlie Beach we had that luck to see some humpback whales jumping out of the water. Amazing!!! The last hours of the day we finished at the beautiful Airlie lagoon with the guys from the sailing boat and then we had to drive back to Ayr to go diving the SS-Yongala.

River-Rafting / Dunk Island

Splash and wild, or a bit less. Rafting near Mission Beach on Tully River. By accident we met the the couple (Helen & Dan) from England again, which we were diving with on the Pro-Dive boat. Yeah awesome! So the group was founded and we were keen to go. Put your helmets up, put the nice yellow live-jacket on, look stupid and take a picture (good work Manny). Our instructor was awesome, a small Japanese guy, with sunny's, overdressed and looked really funny. I guess it was the best one we could get. Great fun…. And we got him wet as well...

The Day after we went to Dunk-Island which is about a 30min ferry ride from Mission beach.





It is a small island with a camping area and a resort. One night in the resort would cost about 200$ up to 1000$. Camping ground we're coming, yuhuu! Anyway we had the possibility to explore the resort by our own, which we were not allowed to do if we not stay in the resort. Not to bad this resort! It was all for free. We played night Golf watched tennis, had a quick dip in the pool and were impressed how much the people will spend to stay on this island. We got in touch with interesting people, one bestseller author Edge Meier and Captain Maza from the Navy (which was a bit destroyed from the drugs he took) at the lovely campsite we stayed. We had good chats with Edge and spent funny hours on Captain Mazas’s boat. The original reason why we wanted to stay on the Island was a friend of me from Melbourne, however we just saw her for a couple of minutes. To much to do with the Captain...
Harrrrrrr...Seemann!

Cape Tribulation and back to Mission Beach

Cape Trib we are coming... ready to start the huge journey along the east coast. We drove up to Cape Tribulation, have seen the Daintree Rainforest and walked around the beaches. It was really nice to see the change of the landscape from the rainforest to the beach. We whiled away our first night in the campervan. Before we went to bed we had an awesome BBQ, made with our on board facilities. The next morning Manny realised that we had a fart-monster (my self) and a snore - monster (Chris) on board. Manny, you snoring as well pretty good! Oh my god, that will be really long three weeks. So everybody got an ice cream and we headed down (Aber zuerst geht jefer nochmal aufs Klo und dann reiten wir weiter). We watched the spectacular Mossman Gorge, lookouts, boardwalks and a visit to Port Douglas. Then we drove through Kuranda (nice alternative town) and had a look at the Barron Falls. Later we passed the Millaa Millaa Falls, sadly at night. It sounded beautiful but don't ask me how it looked! (Sorry Manny, half of the story is stolen from your site!)

The trip down to Brisbane

Me, Chris (Dive Buddy) and Manni (friend of Chris), we decided to rent a van together and drive down to Brisbane. I just know Chris from diving, but I'm pretty sure that's gonna be great fun!!!! Probably not 2 Germans, there are two too many!!! We got a three bed camper van with a little kitchen and a fridge. Pick up the van, load that peace of sh* with our stuff, close the door and hit the throttle. (nasty skit marks, if you are going to Cairns, you are probably still able to see them) Take care QLD the three Cowboys are on the way!!!! Yepycaye Schweinebacke!!!

Pro-Dive

My training for the diving licence starts. Two days of pool and classroom training and 3 days on a boat. It was great fun and the instructors where good fun to.(Thanks Maddy!!! Ride on "swiss"bro) The three days on the boat included a night dive, which was awesome. We saw sharks, big turtles and devil rays. I also went one step further and singed up for the adventure diver. Which included a deep dive of 30 meters and a rubber boat trip to an outer reef! I would like to say thanks to the hole crew and especially to our cook Erin. She made the best chocolate cake I have ever eaten.

Dinner and Drinks back in Cairns at the Rattle 'n' Hum, Good Fun!!!