Bye Bye Australia

Hi everybody,

We are flying out tomorrow to Indonesia. We sold our car at the last minute to some very nice Tongans. We are really happy about it because it goes to polynesians and I really liked them. Their will be 4 of them sleeping in the car when they go to work out of Perth to pick fruits. We spent the afternoon with Bunny, we are so much the same, open hearts and happy, it gave me more energy for the rest of the trip.

We arrived in Perth 4 days ago and we stayed with Meike, my german friend I met in Sydney at the beginning of our trip, at her uncle's and aunty's house, Fritz and Suzanne. They are very nice people and being able to have somewhere to stay after selling our house car is really helpful. What makes it even nicer is the beautiful garden they have, full of flowers, hibiscus, monette, palm trees, roses, plumeria... 

We got time to see more of Perth too, while waiting for some potential buyer. We visited 3 museums which was really interesting. 

Perth is our favorite Australian city, not too busy, with a lot of parks and roses gardens, water in the middle and not too cold. We saw a lot of aboriginal with white Australians which warmed my heart as I can see a better future for Australia.

English and Australians people call the country's strongest beer "the wife beater"... Their favorite and national food is meat pie.... Oh, they also eat french fries with white vinegar... I have to try that some day.

Poema

Western Australia

Yallingup, 17^th of April 2009

It’s been a while since I haven’t wrote anything about our trip around the world.  We are in Yallingup, Western Australia since 2 weeks. We stayed in Perth the first night we got in WA to get our India visa.

Perth is built around the water. It is a very nice artsy city where buildings are growing faster than weeds, sculptures are left on the beach,  bus stops are colorfull, a ferris wheel takes tourist in the air and Le Cirque du Soleil spread its magic in the middle of the town… We followed the train line to go South and find the waves. Land is for sale everywhere and gated communities are growing all along the highway.

Religious campsites welcome us as we enter the Cape to Cape area. We started our wave search from Cape Naturaliste, then drove all the way down to Margaret River. Trees spread theirs branch to give cars shade, grapes are waiting to be picked under their veils, the sun comes up and slowly pours her golden light over the earth, the car shakes as we drive on the dirt road, rabbits run away to hide. Down the cliff the waves are breaking, red rocks emerge from the sand and cut the beach line, my feet are numb walking in cold sand. 20 minutes walk get us to Noah's favorite spot, a nice right and left peak wave. 

Noah bumped into a friend of ours, Daniel. He is Brazilian and have been living around the Pacific for the past 10 years. He's spending some time here in Western Australia surfing and enjoying the place. We hang out with him everyday. His house mates are Australians, Lyndall and Adele, they became our friends from the first night. Lyndall works at a winery and we get free wine every night, which Adele and I enjoy !

I met Claudia thru Daniel, she is a Brazilian-Austrian yoga teacher living in Australia for few years now. We became very good friends and she teaches me yoga everyday of the week. I'm learning about raw food with her and discovering a new culinary world. 

We are coming to the end of our Australian trip and selling our car. I feel sad about selling our Australian house and leaving my new friends but at the same time I'm very excited that we are going to be in a new country very soon.

Poema

Western Australia

Nous sommes arrivés a Margaret River depuis deux jours maintenant. Nous avons beaucoup roulé ses derniers temps et le coin semble parfait pour nous poser et digerer notre "road trip". 

Cela fait presque deux mois que nous avons attéri en Australie et deux semaines que nous avons quitté Byron Bay. 

Le voyage vers Uluru était tres spécial, a faire si vous avez l'occasion, n'oubliez pas vos chapeau moustiquaire si vous ne voulez pas que les mouches vous gachent la journée. Les road-house (station services avec restaurant et douches si vous avez de la chance), road train (camion a trois remorques), les tombes, les carcasses de voiture et d'animaux tout le long de la route, les buissons argentés, bleutés, les couchés et levés de soleils uniques, une terre rouge, orange, beige, la chaleurs des couleurs, la secheresse du vent, tout ca c'est un petit bout du desert australien... La ville de Coober Pedy avec son opale et ses maisons sous-terraine est egalement a visiter. Tout le monde se salue sur la route des la sortie de Port Augusta, le desert ca rend plus social et solidaire...

Apres ce voyage, la traversée entre le South Australia et le Western Australia a été moins difficile que prévue. Le desert cotier n'est pas aussi extreme qu'au centre, je n'appelerai pas ca le desert d'ailleurs. 

Nous campons aux alentours de Yallingup. Il y a des vignobles tout le long de la route entre les deux cap, des grottes, des sentiers de randonnés, des plages vides, des moustiques, un peu de vague, de l'eau bleu turquoise, du recif.  Le climat est comme en méditéranée je dirais, il est agréable, un peu frisqué mais tant qu'il y a du soleil, tout roule.

Perth est une ville agréable, nous y avons passé une journée et une nuit. La ville est construite tout autour de l'eau. Les routes sont larges et le traffic n'est pas difficile a gerer. La ville est en pleine expension, des immeubles en construction de partout, des terrain  et lotissements a vendre tout le long de la cote entre Perth et Margareth River. La nuit tombée, coté mer, au  large, vous pouvez appercevoir les cargo en attente, de vrai train sur la mer. Un esprit artistique plane sur toute la ville, les plages exposent des sculptures modernes XL, les arrets de bus sont décorés, une tour de verre attire l'attention, le cirque du soleil campe au milieu de la ville.

La mer nous berce ce soir,

a bientot

Poema

+ photos

Hi everyone, coucou tout le monde

Je n'ai pas trop le temps d'écrire en ce moment mais j'ai posté quelques photos avec des sous-titres (cliquez sur la photo pour voir les sous-titres). J'actualise le plus souvent la carte pour que vous puissiez nous suivre. 

A bientot

I don't have time to write nowadays but I posted some new pictures with subtitles (you have to click on the photo to see the subtitles). I update the map as often as I can so you can see where about we are.

Take care

Poema

From North to south...

Hi everyone, I posted some new pictures of our trip from Eastern Australia, all the way up to Noosa and down to Torquay where you can find very famous point breaks like Bells beach. We are staying in that area for the week end swell and then drive toward the west. I miss the east coast tropical weather. It was 16C here today and I spend almost the whole day under my blanket. I hope it will get warmer but I doubt it, I heard it's warm weather for here, what a joke !!!

For now I will try to not get blown away by strong winds, take care,

 

Je viens de poster de nouvelles photos de notre trip de Noosa (Queensland) jusqu'a Torquay (Victoria) ou se trouve le fameux spot de surf de Bells Beach. Nous resterons dans les environs pour la houle du week-end et ensuite nous nous dirigerons vers l'ouest. Le climat tropical de la cote est me manque deja, il fait froid ici, jusqu'a 16C. J'ai passé presque toute la journée sous ma couverture. Espérons que ca se réchauffe plus tard, mais je doute, a ce qu'il parrait il fait chaud en ce moment... quelle bonne blague !!!

En attendant les vagues, j'essayerai d'éviter de me faire emporter par une rafale,

A bientot

Poema