Australia 2005

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  A View from our hut in the crocodylus hostel at Cow Bay between the Daintree and Cape Tribulation National Parks.
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  One of the large spiders, which lived next to our hut. I liked the crocodylus especially because of this "in the middle of the jungle"-feeling.
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  In the hot air, the swimming pool below huge trees was a great relief.

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  This little melomy lived below the pillow in our bed and was not amused about sharing it with us. Nevertheless he stayed for the night and enjoyed our (double wrapped!) choclate bars.
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  Unfortunately we have never seen any crocs at the beach. (Fortunately if referred to katja)
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  This fruit looked and semlled so tasty like a honey pine apple. Later we heared it is poisonous. Too bad.

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  The Robinson Crusoe bay. Only 45 minutes rock climbing from the cow bay.
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  It truly deserves this name.
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  We had a great day there. Sharing the beach only with Mr. sand goanna.

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  Yes I know. It is stupid and took me one hour. but the villain coco nut has challenged me mental.
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  A sand goanna (1,50 m long) tries to camouflage. It would have worked, if he had not walked first across our place.
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  The green ant. An common species in North queensland. And very aggressive if you are to close to their nests.

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  We had luck to meet a big cassowary close to the road. And I had the luck that it did none of the bad things, the warning brochures told about. Note: Inform yourself before you try to get close to an unknown animal to make pictures.
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  A nice beach close to cairns.
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  Poor bananas. The hurricane Katharina destroyed most of the plantations in North Queensland.

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  And poor ants. Where do they live know? I hope not in grungy asylums.
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  A termit hill on the way to the Tablelands. Actually this was a kind of a termit city with many, many hills.
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  Deeper in the country, I had fun with this funny red soil. As tourist I must do that.

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  The atmospheric Grand Hotel in Atherton. Great prices, great people (who like the ZZ Top look), great Xmas decoration. And AC DC all the night! Great!
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  Strangling figs start to grow on trees. Later they strangle the host tree with their roots. Scary. This is a huge one.
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  No, this is a huge one. The Curtain Fig close to Yungaburra, which strangled two trees.

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  The Tablelands offer you some stunning walking tracks.
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  A "green hell"
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  And to play around.

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  A water fall only for me. I must have missed the "track closed" sign. Word of honour.
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  The track was slippery, decayed, exuberantly grown and hemmed with loose rocks. I loved it.
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  A permanent resident on the Milla Milla falls wants its share.

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  After this day, we didn't really fancy pitching the tent.
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  We built it in Bramston Beach. Where the sea was as hot as in a bathtub.
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  It was so hot, we spent a lot time hanging around in the "jumping cod", eating chips and listening to Pete Murray.

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  The owner was very proud of this big cockroach. I like this kind of entertainment.
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  The metallic starlings.
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  A dawn at the beach. Like a wallpaper from the 70ies.

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  Sugar cane harvest. Sugar cane is a great chewing gum substitution.
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  Toads. In one night they were everywhere. Maybe a try of world domination.
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  A look at the great dividing range.

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  A befuddled butterfly. Well.. it looks befuddled, doesn´t it?
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  Looks like a beautiful butterfly, but it is a beautiful moth.
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  It´s still funny for us to see such a lavish Xmas decoration in the summer.

Before we went to New Zealand we spent some beautiful and hot days in north eastern Australia. It was so hot that we woke up at 6 o'clock and got immobile at 11. The time we usually get up in the morning.