Le 07/03/12, 3:15
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So I finally made the hitchiking in a day to Adelaide, thanks to 4 aussie “red necks” the kind of old car and tuning freaks...I cut the details, but they were nice.
Then two cool days in Adelaide, another relaxing town with a lot of parks, smaller and warmer than Melbourne, maybe too quiet alghtough we are in the Festival period (one of the biggest cultural events in the South hemisphere, theatre, concerts, performances....even a play with Isabelle Hupert this year !). Once again my stay has been more enjoyable thanks to Klay (australian this time) who hosted me there in a very nice and fancy apartment downtown with a great view. Not much to see here anyway, except from the Festival shows.
Then bus and ferry to finally arrive at Kangaroo Island, 13 kms from the mainland shore.
I’m staying wwoofing at Liz and Scott’s place, who have a nice property near Pelican lagoon, in a typical bush landscape of the Island which means a Mallee tree forest (kind of eucalyptus) and actually reminds a little bit to a Mediterranean lanscape.
There I found 3 other german young wwoofers (who make me remember how “unfinished” you are when you are 19). I discovered actually that Liz and Scott are two retired aussie who use wwoofing as cheap labour force to maintain their property, they have just a big veggie garden, and great part of our job here consist in construction work for a new bungalow. We have to work much more as well (compared with my first wwoof experience ), an the accomodation is a little bit crappy (from outside it looks nice, in the midlle of a forest, but inside, you have spidernets, bats, mice...it’s really dirty, and I could spend one hour to explain how “the shower” works) !
Still the place is beautiful and quiet, the weather is unfortunately regular (a few very bad days), there’s a nice beach nearby (water is so warm!) and the wildlife amazing and literally living with you (kangaroos, wallabies, possums, birds, pelicans.... They also make their own beer, yogurt and bread, so I can’t really complain.
Actually living here is a perfect experience to understand Australian bush life...the have to collect their own water (so have lot of huge tanks they fill with rain water), and produce their own electricity (solar panels), and everyone talks as much about bushfire as how the weather is like.
The island is big, and we are a little bit lost in the middle of nowhere, so it is not as easy to visit, and I have less free days too.
Ok I finally spent 11 days here, and the stay was globally positive especially for the wilderness of the island and the wildlife watching. But time to go back to the mainland and the civilization for a few days, before going to the bush again, this time the desertic outback from the center of Australia, with the famous Ayers Rock.
Then two cool days in Adelaide, another relaxing town with a lot of parks, smaller and warmer than Melbourne, maybe too quiet alghtough we are in the Festival period (one of the biggest cultural events in the South hemisphere, theatre, concerts, performances....even a play with Isabelle Hupert this year !). Once again my stay has been more enjoyable thanks to Klay (australian this time) who hosted me there in a very nice and fancy apartment downtown with a great view. Not much to see here anyway, except from the Festival shows.
Then bus and ferry to finally arrive at Kangaroo Island, 13 kms from the mainland shore.
I’m staying wwoofing at Liz and Scott’s place, who have a nice property near Pelican lagoon, in a typical bush landscape of the Island which means a Mallee tree forest (kind of eucalyptus) and actually reminds a little bit to a Mediterranean lanscape.
There I found 3 other german young wwoofers (who make me remember how “unfinished” you are when you are 19). I discovered actually that Liz and Scott are two retired aussie who use wwoofing as cheap labour force to maintain their property, they have just a big veggie garden, and great part of our job here consist in construction work for a new bungalow. We have to work much more as well (compared with my first wwoof experience ), an the accomodation is a little bit crappy (from outside it looks nice, in the midlle of a forest, but inside, you have spidernets, bats, mice...it’s really dirty, and I could spend one hour to explain how “the shower” works) !
Still the place is beautiful and quiet, the weather is unfortunately regular (a few very bad days), there’s a nice beach nearby (water is so warm!) and the wildlife amazing and literally living with you (kangaroos, wallabies, possums, birds, pelicans.... They also make their own beer, yogurt and bread, so I can’t really complain.
Actually living here is a perfect experience to understand Australian bush life...the have to collect their own water (so have lot of huge tanks they fill with rain water), and produce their own electricity (solar panels), and everyone talks as much about bushfire as how the weather is like.
The island is big, and we are a little bit lost in the middle of nowhere, so it is not as easy to visit, and I have less free days too.
Ok I finally spent 11 days here, and the stay was globally positive especially for the wilderness of the island and the wildlife watching. But time to go back to the mainland and the civilization for a few days, before going to the bush again, this time the desertic outback from the center of Australia, with the famous Ayers Rock.
