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28Feb/081

On my way..

The Singapore Airport is great! Cheap coffee, free and fast wireless internet and even european power plugs. :)
Heading off to catch my next flight to Frankfurt soon.

I finally got to watch Kung Fu Hustle on the plane to Singapore, it was... strange.. but still fun!
Also I watched Transformers, which was.. uhm.. not too bad, but I'm happy not having paid for seeing it in the cinema.

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28Feb/082

Bye Australia!

In a few minutes I'll be in the plane back home to Austria!
So, thanks to everyone I met and especially to the ones that hosted me for making this month an awesome one!

Thanks to: Bonnie, Tom, Eliza, Romana, Aussie, Borko, Nathan, Michael, Duncan, Christine, Nathan, Christopher, Rose, Kaz, Jake, Nick, Damian, Rhett, Gai, Jon, Nick #2, Djota, Jess, and everyone who I forgot

Yesterday I did nothing special, just walked around in Sydney, spent most time in Starbucks, sketching.
The day before I've taken a tour through the Cascade Brewery in Hobart (they make the best beer in Australia):

Cascade Brewery in South Hobart
Cascade Brewery

I also met Babette from Germany there, who was the only other Visitor from overseas there.

Me and Babette in the Cascade Brewery Visitor Center
Me and Babette in the Visitor Center, fake Thylacine and Brewery in the Background

Babette had to leave for the next tour soon, I stayed a bit and got lots of free beer (at 11:00 in the morning). Almost missed my next Tour because I forgot about the time.
I still made it back to the center and catched the Bus that took me to Bonorong Wildlife Park. The Park itself was great, but the Tour reminded me why I hate guided Tours. We only had one hour there, so I split apart from the group to get to see the Quolls (Eastern and Spotted-Tail). The other visitors only saw Koalas and Wombats, because the Tourguides obviously didn't know they only had 1 hour.

Quoll at Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania
Eastern Quoll, who preferred to sleep long.

Tasmanian Devil at Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania
Tassie Devil

Kangaroo Joey at Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania
Kangaroo Joey

After it the Bus took us to Richmond, which seems to be an Attration because of very old Buildings. Boring old Buildings. I would have preferred to stay in the Wildlife Park, but a combined tour was the only Option available.. I've seen the oldest Church in Australia there, which looked quite nice, but not nice enough to waste your bandwith with it.

I'll post all Sketches I did in Australia on Friday!

25Feb/082

Hobart Photos

Spent the whole day in the City, exploring Hobart, chilling in the park and anjoying the wonderful weather!

Hobart Harbour
Hobart Harbour

I even found a DDR Cabinet, probably the closest one to South Pole :)

DDR in Hobart
DDR at Intencity in the Village Cinema

And I found another great Art Store!

Art Store in Hobart

Click "continue reading" for more impressions of Hobart.

25Feb/081

Franklin Square

Sketches

Sitting there and sketching a bit. Internet connection is slow as my provider doesn't have an UMTS network here, only EDGE, which is slow.
More photos to come when I'm back at my hosts place.

23Feb/080

Welcome to Hobart

Welcome sign at the Hobart Internatinal Airport

Just Arrived, rains every now and then, but from what I've seen now, Tasmania is beautiful!
More photos to come.

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23Feb/080

Bye Melbourne

Packing my stuff at the moment and leaving for Hobart in 2 hours.

Not much to tell, only watched John Rambo 2 days ago with the people here, been to the city yesterday, no amazing photos though, weather sucked.
Forecast says it will be really cold in Tasmania too.

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20Feb/082

Feeding Tigers

15°C and rain today.. weird weather, especially considering that it had 35°C yesterday.. but my host told me that weather changes like this are not that unusual here.

Met up with Nick (who also organized that I could stay at Kaz' place) today, we went to the Melbourne Zoo.
Great Zoo, they had lots of interesting animals there, like tree kangaroos, meerkats, red pandas, jaguars, pumas, tigers, lions, lemurs, and most surprisingly, coatis!

Coati
Coati (cc) flickr user Timmy Toucan

Couldn't get any good shots of it myself though, because the coatis were both sleeping, and the short time when they moved I was too slow.. but well, I've seen them at least :)
Here are some other photos I took:

Meerkat at Melbourne Zoo

Tree Kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo

Nick, who was a Zoo volunteer, managed to get me to see a Tiger feeding from the Zookeepers side later. We could get up really close to the Tigers, amazing!

Tiger and Keeper at Melbourne Zoo
Tiger and Keeper "backstage"

Tiger at Melbourne Zoo
*really* close

Me, feeding Tigers
And I even got to feed one young and one adult Tiger!

It was an amazing experience, thanks again to Nick for making this possible!

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19Feb/081

Melbourne City

Had a nice (and pretty hot) day in Melbourne. Kaz, my host showed me around in the inner city a bit.

Melbourne

And I played some DDR in an Arcade there :)

DDR in Melbourne

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18Feb/084

Melbourne

Yesterday (Sunday) : Didn't do much at all, except meeting up with some friends of Michael for playing DDR in the City. I failed mostly because I'm quite out of practice and I hardly knew any Song, as I usually play ITG. Still it was fun. :)

DDR at Myer Center, Brisbane

Today (Monday): Got up early, packed my stuff and went to the South Bank Train Station, where I had enough time to go into the Art Store of the Griffith University, and it was the best Art Store ever.

Super Sculpey
All kinds of Super Sculpey!

The animators survival kit
Great Books!

Sanford col-erase pencils
And the best thing, Sanford Col-erase pencils, even green ones!

I bought 10 as they weren't exactly cheap, then catched the train to the airport. Arrived there in time and had a late departure.

Looney Tunes on Airplane
Watched Looney Tunes, Simpsons and Futurama for the whole flight :)

Sketch
Also sketched a bit with my new pencils :)

Aerial View of Victoria
This is what Victoria looks from above.

Arrived there, but didn't have a host as none of the couchsurfers replied. Luckily Kaz, a friend of a friend of Michael agreed to host me, thanks again!
No plans for tomorrow yet, I guess I'll just explore the city a bit.

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17Feb/080

Australia Zoo

Went to the Australia Zoo yesterday (Saturday), which was totally awesome!
Lots of Kangaroos there:

White Kangaroo at Australia Zoo

15Feb/081

Parrots

Friday: feeding Parrots at O'Reillys National Park, they have really sharp claws, ouch!

Feeding Parrots at O’Reillys National Park

Parrot at O’Reillys National Park

O’Reillys National Park

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14Feb/081

Movie World

Yesterday: Lots of Laserforce, but no photos.. battery dead. Still it was very fun to play with Michael and his friends. Also the Arena was alot better than the one in Sydney.

Today Michael, Dash and me got up early and went to the Warner Brothers Movie World on Gold Coast.

Me and Dash at Warner Brothers Movie World

It was really awesome!

We have been to the following Attractions:

  • Batwing Spaceshot
  • Batman Adventure
  • Police Academy Stunt Show
  • Shrek 4D Adventure
  • Road Runnter Rollercoaster
  • Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster
  • Lethal Weapon Rollercoaster (4 Times.. awesome!!)
  • Wild West Falls

Superman Rollercoaster was sadly closed..

I met the Looney Tunes
And I met the Looney Tunes ;)

Other Photos:

Sylvester

He is Batman

Lethal Weapon Rollercoaster

Superman Rollercoaster

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13Feb/081

Lone Pine

On Monday, Michael showed me around in the Brisbane Suburbs, and to some Mountain where you could see all over Brisbane. Also spotted some wild kangaroos. For some reason, the photos are missing (argh).

On Tuesday, we went to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in the morning, to be there before all the Japanese Tourists are.

Kangaroo at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Not only Koalas but also lots of Kangaroos there

Kangaroo at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Lizard at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Koala at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Kangaroo at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Me with Kangaroo at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

After that, we went to the Brisbane Museum, sadly they didn't have the animatronic tasmanian Tiger anymore.. still it was nice and interresting.

Brisbane
View from the Museum

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10Feb/080

Brisbane

Today was my last day in Sydney for a while.. slept until 10, then walked around in Newtown a bit.

Art Store in Newtown, Sydney
Found another great Artstore, they're everywhere!

People making music
Later, back at Bonnies House, some friends of her showed up and started making awesome music. They told me that they actually got the drums from a dumpster. They sounded great though.

Eliza, me and Bonnie
and that's Eliza (who lives in the same House), me and Bonnie!
thanks for hosting me!

Later, Nathan picked up Micheal (my host in Brisbane) and me and took us to the Airport, had a nice flight.
Those Virgin Blue Flights have live satellite TV with 20 channels on every plane, amazing!
Getting some sleep now and looking forward to a having good time in Brisbane.

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9Feb/082

Party

After having some sleep, I explored the area around my hosts house a bit, and found this:

Sculpting Supply Store
They sell everything for sculpting and casting, and it's the second store that I found that sells Super Sculpey. There are specialzed shops everywhere, I really like this about Sydney.

Central Station
The central station looks for some reason very similar to the one in Zürich.

Met up with Michael later, who will host me in Brisbane yesterday, going to a friend of him who lives near Bondi Beach.

Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach!

Nathan took us to a party on the north shore, which was really awesome! Met lots of great people and had alot of fun. I got the chance to try out the Canon EF 17-55mm f2.8 and the EF70-300 f4-5.6 lenses, they're great!

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The next day we went to play Laserforce, which was also fun, even though I need some practice because I never played something like this before (I think there isn't even anything like this in Austria). After it we had lunch and then I went to my hosts apartment again, looking into "Goulds Bookstore" on my way there, which is a huge Store that sells all kinds of books. I hope I'll have enough time tomorrow to look around a bit more.

Goulds Bookstore
Goulds Bookstore

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