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wet-happy new year ...

cuddly mood ...

Those who have followed in recent weeks, next to the "Sandman", "BravoTV" "and" Exclusive "sometimes the news on TV, which will be known, that in Australia, more Queensland at the time, land in 'there. The fact that our little Odyssey was not spared, should be here now described briefly.

Tewantin

The New Year's evening is spectacular but beautiful in a circle two of us. We empty a few bottles of wine (note: sweet = headache), Refreshing us on cheese fondue and talking heads off. The next morning the computer stretches the legs up - well, Happy New Year! The error is, however, solved during the course of the day so that the atmosphere is rising again - in spite of repeated flood-like rains.

Pretty beetle ...

On the second day in the new year we left the rainy Tewantin to Bundaberg us to approach, although some rain for the previous closures in this Region had seen. Accordingly, our steps become slower and we turned to each tourist Ausgucksort. On one of our walks, we could then not only enjoy the beautiful landscape shrouded in clouds, but the snake species we ran across. Or rather, we lay in the path. Nice to watch but personally I feel uneasy about these animals!

... sizzling ...

Rainbow Beach

Our next stop on the trip should be the starting point for beautiful activities. At Rainbow Beach radiated the sun, the locals and tourists besieged the three-meter stretch of beach, which was controlled by the Baywatch people and we walked the beach again up and down. (the full three feet and still back!) moved in the late afternoon we are on the camping site, in the National Park we found a fine spot on as it should be otherwise, the beach! Under a starry sky, it could then also sleep very well!

Happy Camper ...

Poisonous little beasts, the jellyfish: a Portuguese galley here (if I'm wrong ...). non- Better not connect up!

But here we are not spared from technical problems, this time the camera breaks down. As well, the video camera also produces passable photos, or tomorrow's trip to Fraser Iceland would be the total Kracher become.

The town of Rainbow Beach got its name because of the way, in different colors, bright sand dunes that are found in the area. The exploration of these mountains of sand then conjures many different shades of red in our faces, but compensated with pretty pictures.

Huge dunes mean huge perspiration on Bastis Shirt ... see

... and no sweat for Jenny ... mmh

Fraser Iceland

early morning at 6.30 clock us the alarm clock out of bed, waiting for us for the adventure of Fraser Iceland. This largest sand island in the universe can be exclusively on four-wheel drive. Our camper is this so similarly useful as a "lollipop that tastes like divorce * e" (quote from dodgeball legend Patches O'Houlihan). The majority of Australians would not interfere with, yet felt any Ozzie runs an SUV. Something like that looks even the beach. Where else is splashing and geflätzt to drive around here as on a motorway jeeps. But I digress ... We are so early in the morning picked up by a four-wheel-bus, which is chauffeured us and 28 other adventurers on the island. The bus driver can then speak the same action, allowing the engine (and some older inmates semester of back pain) rev. I am glad after a short time the Fasten Seat Belt to find. These moments of weightlessness are amusing in the short term, the pain of landing it are not! While possessed by the devil, laughing and snorting driver plowed through the jungle or beach, I try to get some photos, and fail miserably. The first stop is a holiday resort that invites you to breakfast. Overjoyed, the people get out of the vehicle, forged in the hell of back pain from. They lie in the arms, tears roll down. I wonder why. The matter is still not even begin to pass ...

a huge ... Tree on Fraser Iceland ...

Now began our trip the character to take a walk in the park: we were towed to the resort, lined with coffee, tea and muffin and then it went even further over hill and dale. The next stop was Central Station and was the first settlement on the island. Today the place is used as Wissensort, the tourists will be guided by a piece of rain forest and provides information on the history of the island. Fortunately, our guide has been full of energy, otherwise, this part can degenerate into effort at 30 degrees in the shade.

swimming in Lake MacSchönheit ...

Next, the Lake Mackenzie was controlled. "The" lake here in Australia. He is attracted by its bright blue and impressed us with its warm temperatures. Just one hour we had time to explore this beautiful lake, or more accurately, more precisely, to tear the clothes from his body and jump into the serene waters. Unfortunately, in such moments, time passes too quickly.

... a beach made of flour ...

The hour was fast around and we went to dinner. This was then announced Kaffeeklatsch atmosphere. But what we did not stop to enjoy the buffet extensively!

went after the meal it then, but now no longer through the interior of the island but on the beach highway. The journey was as much quieter. First we got to see a rock formation that illuminated colors that are similar in the Rainbow Beach, then to marvel at the wreck of the Maheno.

Use it or lose it!

This boat was once the fastest ship in the world (beginning of the 20th century ... to run at the end of his career to and from the Australian Army in the 1970s used as a bombing site). After this experience it was then a splash Süßwasserflüsschen in the Basti then was allowed a bit (I had to wear the backpack).

order for our outing was then already finished, and despite Kaffeeklatsch character we enjoyed every minute of this unique island.

hat in the flood ...

The flood

The next morning promised no improvement. The radio reported little positive in terms of flood. The highway to Rockhampton was still blocked, and perhaps our only chance to come to Cairns, was a further 3000km detour. Maryborough, the city in which the inventor was born Mary Poppins, but we tried a very nice lady at the information center vane that we would have enough time. Well ....

... man on the move as pitcher ...

Nevertheless, we are moving toward a flood zone. After a night in the vicinity of the Port of Gladstone is again checked the situation, then the next day from Biloela (further inland, closer to the flood) to find out a way through the flood area. The stormy rains at night (in some 150 mm in an hour, in comparison, I think Berlin has so around 600 mm a year!) Have certainly not helped to reduce the level. Nevertheless, we go the next morning in good spirits to the Visitor Centre in order then to get the news that the roads are still closed and probably the next few days will be locked. Our mouth descend. How should we get the cart now to Cairns? And how do we get to Cairns? A few hours of internet research revealed that the campers made with the consent of the booth rental in Brisbane, and there is also a plane could be climbed. The car rental (Camperman) is not very enthusiastic about this idea and threatens to $ 750 penalty if we do not give the camper in Cairns. That just half the country is under water, does not seem to matter. Shaking his head, and tears slip away, we take out the nice conversation. Can not be helped, yes, we think, and break back towards shore, there to wait / to try to enjoy the holiday.

If it's a nice page of the flooding there, then here ...

The disappointment was great, but we wanted to have some stuff from the Great Barrier Reef. So the plan was forged in Agnes Water and Town of 1770 to look at the coral formations, and then break up in a few days to Brisbane. Camperman we had tags on it still a derisory offer, but to bring the van back to Melbourne. Sometimes you doubt on the minds of other people.

any case, Mother Nature also received us in Agnes Water with rain, which prevented them but we do not find a beautiful campsite on the beach.

Constant companion: nasty storm clouds.

We deserve an extensive beauty sleep in order to explore the area at lunchtime. The Internet is once again proclaimed that all access roads are blocked. Shrug. On the way to the beach there is a message that a few roads (which we fit like chalk and cheese) are open to traffic. We look at short and rotate tires screeching around, back towards Biloela (Otherwise, by 500 miles! Crap!). Once there, a road, according to Internet information is already closed again. We have the faxes but now thick and proceed towards flood. And it can not long coming. While the streets were otherwise "only" pulled through holes nasty affected, this whole sections of pavement are washed away. It smells disgusting. If my training shoes had a 10 on the smell scale, it would be here ne 11 or 12 But we move forward. Here and there we go through about 20 cm deep, flowing over the road, rivers, which in itself is no problem, but somehow still exciting, because you do not even know that it's just flat. On a sandy stretch the abilities of the camper but then a little to be explored. With a bit of tooth and nail to be mud puddles and other obstacles skidding way overcome. But actually, the remaining streets are surprisingly easy to drive. We decide to drive through that whole area, so as not possibly be stuck in the morning somewhere. Finally, on the radio constantly storm warnings and heavy rain will be made public. After 11 hours (including 5 hours in the dark), exhausting trip, we leave our apartment as it is romantic on the highway to catch a few hours deserved sleep.

... is always sunshine after rain!

The next morning promised us nothing but good. The sun shone and we made us at seven clock further on our way. After another 433 km we come to the Whitsunday Islands, and may the first time to breathe really, because now we have left the flood area, more or less behind us and we can engage entirely on the adventure of the Great Barrier Reef!

... Bud Spencer and Jenny Lake McBartig