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Australia 26. january - 2. march 1998

Australia (week 3)

Henning Nielsen
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there's a koala sleeping. A few yards from there there's another. "Watch the spider-web" says an aussie-girl on the bus, before we go over there. And she is right, there's a huge spider-web between 2 trees - and I have been told that it's a bad idea to bother the local spiders. They might be dangerous. So you better walk the other way around.....

From here on to a local sheep cutting - for the second time - and then to the highlight of the tour Seal Bay. We walk around on the beach among the seals, who are up on the beach for a 3-day nap before going fishing again. Even though most are sleeping there are some kind of activity - and you can watch at a few yards distance. This is real nature - no wildlife park or the like.

From there it's on to a local wildlife (?) park. Feeding the kangaroos and emu's, cuddling the koala's - if you're into that - and some very cute kangaroo, wombat and possum-youngsters.

Back to Pennishaw, and the boat to the mainland - this was a mistake, I should have stayed on this island for longer - and then by bus back to Adelaide. Back to the motel right after midnigh - so there's been 18 hours of sightseeing today - don't come here and say that traveling is relaxing.

Saturday 14'th

Once again up at 6 am and exit Adelaide. On Greyhound Pioneer to Broken Hill. Broken Hill is "far out", desert - more desert - and plenty of dead kangaroos on the road, all hit by the trucks and cars. There are hours between the towns. The last one before we reach Broken Hill is not that big - 7 people live there. One get of the bus there - "now we are 8" he says.

The trip is annoying . A mother and her 4 extremely badly behaving kids makes everything possible to make as much noice and trouble as they are able to.

Broken Hill in the afternoon. VERY hot out her. Checking in on Mario's Palace Hotel - the most fancy hotel on this trip. The lobby is something special with huge wallpaintings all over. The rooms are real nice - and it seems like there's noone else at the hotel.

Checking out the city, into a pizza-hut - and back to sleep.

Sunday 15'th

Halfday-trip to Silverton, some kind of ghosttown 20 miles from Broken Hill. Very much the outback. This is a new record - we are only 3 on the bus today. I Silverton we are taken to some local galleries, meet some con-man who has made a living out of cutting the kangaroo out of old 1-cent coins, and sell them to the stupid tourists. We end up in Silverton hotel - and it's time for a VB. (Victoria Bitter - their local beer - and a very good one)

Severel films - and especially commercieals - have been shot in Silverton. You know, those with beers, thirsty men - and far away from everything.