Sydney - Ferry Manly - Ferry Palm Beach to Ettalong Beach - Wamberal - New Castle - Nelson Bay - Ferry to Tea Garden - Buladhelah - Taree - Port Maquarie - Kempsey - Barranganyatti - Coffs Harbour - Grafton - Maclean - Ballina - Byron Bay - Coolangatta - Bilambil Heights - Southport - Brisbane km:1.111 days on bike: 17
achieved: 20.000km only by pushbike. over 7000km in Australia highlights: again so many friendly people and terrific hosts, freediving course not so nice: weird car-drivers, yelling and swearing and giving you no space.....
bye bye Sydney and I am sure I will come back.
Manly
ferry to Ettalong Beach
awesome view from my room in Wamberal
Rob and Deb with their fluffy friends. had a great time at their home :-)
Big Pete: more weight in total than me ? yes, possible. especially with two hugh solarpanels on the front and the rear and a body weight of 114kg :-) funny meeting. have a safe trip, mate !
Fernleigh Trail on the way to Newcastle
smooth pavement, very very good !
Paul and his wife Ash hosted me in Newcastle, we had a great evening with his parents :-)
this tower looks like a .... ? ask the people in Newcastle ;-)
Nelson Bay
Captain Bruce on the ferry to Tee Garden
what a beautiful ferry and I was the only passenger
Tee Garden
in a cafe in Tee Garden, a couple recognized me from my interview on ABC News. after a short conversation the man gave me a 10-Dollar note. well, I wanted to refuse it instantly, but he told me , that I should take it as a souvenir and explained me all the persons on this note. there are so many friendly people on this world :-)
Taree, Railway Motel. very cosy and a heritage sight.
if you want to have a dental treatment, feel free to use it ;-)
awesome meeting with Sibylle from Germany. she is a friend of a very good friend of mine and travelling in Australia :-)
coloured rocks in Port Maquarie
Stephen and Jacky, my WS-hosts in Barranganyatti :-)
Stephen and Jacky with their friends Peter and Sally. Peter brews his own beer ! so tasty :-)
the "croqs-tree", which only grows in Australia ;-)
my room mates in Coffs Harbour. a boxer (I grew up with one) and a Great Dane. so cute !
banana plantation
highway with no broken glass bottels on the shoulder and good asphalt. what a luxury !
sugar cane, and the climates changes... more humid .
old ferry at the visitor center in Maclean
sunrise after Maclean
old railway track for transporting sugar cane.
very friendly captain, did not charge me anything :-)
bike friendly ferry , amazing :-)
the largest prawn ever caught. thanks to gene technology :-)
lighthouse in Byron Bay
Hele and her daughter.
Hele is a friend of a friend in Germany and we only know each other from FB. She is German, but now resident and a painter. great meeting :-) if you want to know more about her:
tunnels in the countryside of Australia.... very rare !
Linda and Arie , my WS-hosts in Coolangatta ! big pleasure to know them !
Sally, Marcus and their three nice children Nick, Milla and Ember. my friend "Animal" found a new home :-)
one of my best homestays at all: Sally is a friend of a friend in
Germany, and she invited me to stay some days to their home close to
Coolangatta. I planned to stay two nights, and there were five ! what a
great family and nice children. all very relaxed :-) hope to see them again !
good job, well done Marcus !
dangerous rabbit protecting my room :-)
Well, 2013 I joined a course in freediving on Phuket/Thailand. Richard Wonka from http://www.wefreedive.org/ did a great job and I can recommend "we freedive" very
much. for myself this experience was a mental desaster . as a child I
had so many surgeries and during some
off-shore lessons I got some insane recalls from all this stuff.not funny ! but I will never give up and will try it again and again...
not for becoming a good freediver or competition or breaking a new
record.... only for myself :-)
