Month: May 2018

despite it’s name sharks are not the main attraction here. there are, however, so many other things to see in shark bay it’s hard to know where to start. so let’s back right up. we left horrocks – which as a special nod to nat, harry potter’s greatest fan, we called horcrux – and briefly…

thank god. we love perth but our visit there was a bit longer than we were prepared for due to a bit of an issue with the car. the gearbox has now been re-manufactured, i.e. the parts that were not designed as well as they could/should have been have been replaced with improved items and…

our poor sick disco is being taken care of but that means we can’t go far. nat and i have some studying to do but of course every now and then a little break is in order. for nat that means time with her friends alex and vivi. i still have a few changes to…

i hate the idea of going backwards; probably because even though i was born in austria i was always australian at heart. as you may know the two animals in australia’s coat of arms, the emu and the kangaroo, can’t walk backwards either. very metaphoric. the reason i am bringing this up is that the…

today we started our journey north. we started in busselton, best known for it’s jetty. construction on the jetty started in 1853 and the jetty was extended multiple times until the 1960ies. it is almost 2km long and the longest wooden jetty in the world! when it reached it’s use-by date – i.e. when the…