Hey!
Now it's almost over, at least my time in the Mt. Nelson villas. I've gotta move out on Sunday and I just finished booking my flights, trains etc. for my mainland-tour. Next week I'll stay in Hobart at some backpackers, before I'll leave to Melbourne.
The last weeks were filled with studying and preparation for exams and then finally writing the exams. I finished on monday. Since the last week-end there's a whole lotta leaving going on, here in Tasmania. Yesterday my Austrian fellows left, some other friends left already last Sunday. Yes, it really seems like I'm the last man standing here in Hobart, so I'll get a little taste of how it is, being alone.
I just made my mainland-plans and I figured out that I won't stay in one place longer than 3 days. Most of the time I only booked the backpackers for 1 or 2 nights. And the only group of people I'll see longer than 2 days will be the hiking group in New Zealand. I'm really lookin' forward to it and I wonder how it's gonna be, being on the road for 1 1/2 months.
Last monday I sold my car, it was a sad goodbye. I probably spent more time with my car than with my friends, because: Passengers change, the car won't!
well then, stay tuned. Next time I'll write, I'll probably be somewhere else ;)
cheers!
Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2009
Samstag, 13. Juni 2009
back again and how are you doing?
Well, I know it's been a while since I wrote you something new. But hey, here I am and here we go:
There were some trips between cradle mountain and today, and also some funny things. But probably I'm not gonna talk about funny things, I'll keep them, to have stories when I come home. And since I found out that I'm a sleeping pill it's now my task to bore you, so better read the following lines before you go to bed (I'm serious).
However, I've been to the bay of fires. Apparently that's THE tourist destination of 2009. We were quite alone there, but it was beautiful. It's a nice bay, with some sand, some rocks. The rocks appear redish, thus bay of fires. The drive up there was nice, well coastal drive and I finally finished my 6,000th km in my awesome yellow car.
Times are getting sad these days, so the period of farewell-parties has started the following friday. And it was a good party with no time to cry...
On the following sunday I did an airwalk, not very spectacular but nice view though. You know, it's some kind of "Baumkronenweg". And however, I found out that money grows on trees, well at least the coins. The leaves are not made of dollar-bills.
Wow, and now we're reaching June, my 5th month in tassie. finally I managed to get up on Mt. Wellington on a beautiful day to get some photos of Hobart from above. Photos of this trip are exclusively provided here, not on facebook, nowhere else.
Good that I say nowhere else. For those of you, who want to go nowhere else, I can tell you, it's not worth the long journey, I've been there. However, if you're around then go there, because the view is better from nowhere else.
I made it to the west coast, finally. There's a lot of almost uncharted land *gg* Well actually there are maps available, but the roads ain't sealed, and all the men around are archer. Yej, in Queenstown there are some miners as well. Together they work hard to destroy the land, and they're good in what they do. However, there was some nature on the trip so we finally could see a platypus and a tasmanian devil in wildlife.
The roadtrip was awesome, 1405km, including 200km gravel road, and so I reached my 7,500th km with my awesome yellow car.
Yesterday, when driving down to the south for a day-walk, my car had to cross this puddle... and it savely made it, I could call it yellow submarine from now on, but that's already the name of oscar's car.
Next week won't be spectacular, believe it or not, I need to lock myself up in my room and study. Since I've not done much I've gotta study hard and maybe even harder. But I can see some light at the end, 3 exams next week and then I'm free =)
cheers, sorry if I've bored you, but hey, I'm a sleeping pill, good night then ;)
Luke
Well, I know it's been a while since I wrote you something new. But hey, here I am and here we go:
There were some trips between cradle mountain and today, and also some funny things. But probably I'm not gonna talk about funny things, I'll keep them, to have stories when I come home. And since I found out that I'm a sleeping pill it's now my task to bore you, so better read the following lines before you go to bed (I'm serious).
However, I've been to the bay of fires. Apparently that's THE tourist destination of 2009. We were quite alone there, but it was beautiful. It's a nice bay, with some sand, some rocks. The rocks appear redish, thus bay of fires. The drive up there was nice, well coastal drive and I finally finished my 6,000th km in my awesome yellow car.
Times are getting sad these days, so the period of farewell-parties has started the following friday. And it was a good party with no time to cry...
On the following sunday I did an airwalk, not very spectacular but nice view though. You know, it's some kind of "Baumkronenweg". And however, I found out that money grows on trees, well at least the coins. The leaves are not made of dollar-bills.
Wow, and now we're reaching June, my 5th month in tassie. finally I managed to get up on Mt. Wellington on a beautiful day to get some photos of Hobart from above. Photos of this trip are exclusively provided here, not on facebook, nowhere else.
Good that I say nowhere else. For those of you, who want to go nowhere else, I can tell you, it's not worth the long journey, I've been there. However, if you're around then go there, because the view is better from nowhere else.
I made it to the west coast, finally. There's a lot of almost uncharted land *gg* Well actually there are maps available, but the roads ain't sealed, and all the men around are archer. Yej, in Queenstown there are some miners as well. Together they work hard to destroy the land, and they're good in what they do. However, there was some nature on the trip so we finally could see a platypus and a tasmanian devil in wildlife.
The roadtrip was awesome, 1405km, including 200km gravel road, and so I reached my 7,500th km with my awesome yellow car.
Yesterday, when driving down to the south for a day-walk, my car had to cross this puddle... and it savely made it, I could call it yellow submarine from now on, but that's already the name of oscar's car.
Next week won't be spectacular, believe it or not, I need to lock myself up in my room and study. Since I've not done much I've gotta study hard and maybe even harder. But I can see some light at the end, 3 exams next week and then I'm free =)
cheers, sorry if I've bored you, but hey, I'm a sleeping pill, good night then ;)
Luke
Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009
hey there!
okay, now I have my new haircut for 2 weeks and I'm really happy with it.
However, some things happened during the last weeks. First there was this geophysics excursion, which made me miss another party in hobart, but hey, who cares. It was fun anyways.
We went to a place in the north of Campbelltown, once again to investigate some farmland. This time electromagnetic measurements. And there was one important thing I've learned that weekend, well actually there were two things:
1. you should not be afraid of walking, when you want to do geophysics. I was walking 30km up and down this paddock, carrying survey instruments. And I can prove that, the track was recorded using a GPS.
2. One shearer can shear 3 sheep per hour and 4 shearers are hired for 3000 sheep. This was the takeaway-message of a conversation with the farmer in whose shearers quarters we were staying.
So then, another week was coming up, the most stressful week since I'm in Tassie. There was nothing to do before this week, and there is nothing left after this week. But during this week there was this Astronomy test and 6 reports to hand in. I don't tell you the details about that, they might bore you to death.
After handing in the 5 pharmacology reports on friday I left hobart to drive way up north, to Cradle Mountain, planning to climb the summit. However, saturday morning was covered in snow and the wind was blowing the hell outta the trees. So I reduced my plans to a nice walk to marion's lookout at 1245m.
Pearce has finally seen snow, for the first time in his life, and he was really afraid of the cold. His gloves didn't have fingers.
Well, it was a nice weekend, and the way home was awesome. Unsealed highway at 1,000m above sealevel, highland lakes, just great.
On monday I had some work to do, finishing my geophysics report. I finished just in time, so I could go and play tennis. First time tennis after 6 years. It took me quite a while... I should practice more often.
However, later, while I was in the gym I got a phone call of a professor, that we're meeting (astronomy class) at night to get on the roof of the uni, to observe some stars and other things in the sky. And hey, I saw Saturn with its rings. That's really incredible =)
alrighty, that's all the news I think. have a nice day!
okay, now I have my new haircut for 2 weeks and I'm really happy with it.
However, some things happened during the last weeks. First there was this geophysics excursion, which made me miss another party in hobart, but hey, who cares. It was fun anyways.
We went to a place in the north of Campbelltown, once again to investigate some farmland. This time electromagnetic measurements. And there was one important thing I've learned that weekend, well actually there were two things:
1. you should not be afraid of walking, when you want to do geophysics. I was walking 30km up and down this paddock, carrying survey instruments. And I can prove that, the track was recorded using a GPS.
2. One shearer can shear 3 sheep per hour and 4 shearers are hired for 3000 sheep. This was the takeaway-message of a conversation with the farmer in whose shearers quarters we were staying.
So then, another week was coming up, the most stressful week since I'm in Tassie. There was nothing to do before this week, and there is nothing left after this week. But during this week there was this Astronomy test and 6 reports to hand in. I don't tell you the details about that, they might bore you to death.
After handing in the 5 pharmacology reports on friday I left hobart to drive way up north, to Cradle Mountain, planning to climb the summit. However, saturday morning was covered in snow and the wind was blowing the hell outta the trees. So I reduced my plans to a nice walk to marion's lookout at 1245m.
Pearce has finally seen snow, for the first time in his life, and he was really afraid of the cold. His gloves didn't have fingers.
Well, it was a nice weekend, and the way home was awesome. Unsealed highway at 1,000m above sealevel, highland lakes, just great.
On monday I had some work to do, finishing my geophysics report. I finished just in time, so I could go and play tennis. First time tennis after 6 years. It took me quite a while... I should practice more often.
However, later, while I was in the gym I got a phone call of a professor, that we're meeting (astronomy class) at night to get on the roof of the uni, to observe some stars and other things in the sky. And hey, I saw Saturn with its rings. That's really incredible =)
alrighty, that's all the news I think. have a nice day!
Dienstag, 5. Mai 2009
Hello again!
Well, well, now it's may, the last month of uni. Actually in June there will be a lot of exams (3), but no lectures. I'm lookin' forward to that time.
However, unbelieveable how fast the time runs by, on Friday I can blow the half-time whistle, I reckon I'll have a 15mins break then.
Alright, you might be asking if I made it to the rafting trip, if I finished the report on time and what else is going on there?
Well, yes I could hand the report in, just at the right time (hopefully I also threw it into the right box) and I could go to that rafting trip.
We did the Blythe river, which means a long trip to the north of Tasmania. We stayed at the house of Josh (a rafting club guide and the one who organized this trip) at Burnie (check out a map to find out how north this city is) and had a couple of beers. The next morning we drove to the river, just 6 rafters and 2 kajakers.
It was fairly cold and rainy, probably you had to be a badass to go for the rafting-trip, that's why there was only the 6 of us.
But the river was great, the rain filled it, so it was possible to enjoy some grade 3 rapids and one grade 4!
Whilst rafting down the first half of the grade 4 rapid, I almost fell out, just my foot stayed inside the raft, held by a fellow paddler, I was hanging on the rope around the raft and my ass was surfing the rocks! Nice experience. However, the second boat flipped in the middle of the rapid. Unfortunately I don't have any fotos of this trip, because the weather was so bad.
On thursday I got a cold, once again, so I stayed in bed the whole friday... the whole friday? erm, no, when you've got a cold you should do something about it, so I bought handkerchiefs, peppermint infusion, some aspirin and a bottle of vodka for the evening. I was meeting with a friend to emty a bottle of vodka. She was actually really keen on getting drunk and during my last cold I figured out that vodka is a really good cure.
Prior to this, of course I found out that I must be allergic to aloe vera, since my lips were enormously swollen after using the new handkerchiefs. Funny, I was somehow looking like Earl (those of you watching the TV series My Name is Earl know what I'm talking about, those who don't: start to watch it, it's cool!).
Next day followed a nice trip to Mt. Field, yes I've been there before, but alone, so, hey it's not wrong visiting a nice place twice.
When we returned, we first got some McDonalds meal followed by a haircut. Well I got my hair cut. For some reason I had to prove that I don't talk shit, when I'm drunk and so it happened.
I'm really happy with that and find those who did this to me really did a good job.
Oh well, today I had another pharmacology test. I think it went well, or let's say not too bad. Now times are getting a bit stressful, for the next 2 weeks, since I've got to hand in 6 reports and then there's another test by the end of next week.
But now I'm looking forward to another geophysics field trip coming up this week-end. Somewhere in the north, this time probably no shearer's quarters but camping.
see you then!
Well, well, now it's may, the last month of uni. Actually in June there will be a lot of exams (3), but no lectures. I'm lookin' forward to that time.
However, unbelieveable how fast the time runs by, on Friday I can blow the half-time whistle, I reckon I'll have a 15mins break then.
Alright, you might be asking if I made it to the rafting trip, if I finished the report on time and what else is going on there?
Well, yes I could hand the report in, just at the right time (hopefully I also threw it into the right box) and I could go to that rafting trip.
We did the Blythe river, which means a long trip to the north of Tasmania. We stayed at the house of Josh (a rafting club guide and the one who organized this trip) at Burnie (check out a map to find out how north this city is) and had a couple of beers. The next morning we drove to the river, just 6 rafters and 2 kajakers.
It was fairly cold and rainy, probably you had to be a badass to go for the rafting-trip, that's why there was only the 6 of us.
But the river was great, the rain filled it, so it was possible to enjoy some grade 3 rapids and one grade 4!
Whilst rafting down the first half of the grade 4 rapid, I almost fell out, just my foot stayed inside the raft, held by a fellow paddler, I was hanging on the rope around the raft and my ass was surfing the rocks! Nice experience. However, the second boat flipped in the middle of the rapid. Unfortunately I don't have any fotos of this trip, because the weather was so bad.
On thursday I got a cold, once again, so I stayed in bed the whole friday... the whole friday? erm, no, when you've got a cold you should do something about it, so I bought handkerchiefs, peppermint infusion, some aspirin and a bottle of vodka for the evening. I was meeting with a friend to emty a bottle of vodka. She was actually really keen on getting drunk and during my last cold I figured out that vodka is a really good cure.
Prior to this, of course I found out that I must be allergic to aloe vera, since my lips were enormously swollen after using the new handkerchiefs. Funny, I was somehow looking like Earl (those of you watching the TV series My Name is Earl know what I'm talking about, those who don't: start to watch it, it's cool!).
Next day followed a nice trip to Mt. Field, yes I've been there before, but alone, so, hey it's not wrong visiting a nice place twice.
When we returned, we first got some McDonalds meal followed by a haircut. Well I got my hair cut. For some reason I had to prove that I don't talk shit, when I'm drunk and so it happened.
I'm really happy with that and find those who did this to me really did a good job.
Oh well, today I had another pharmacology test. I think it went well, or let's say not too bad. Now times are getting a bit stressful, for the next 2 weeks, since I've got to hand in 6 reports and then there's another test by the end of next week.
But now I'm looking forward to another geophysics field trip coming up this week-end. Somewhere in the north, this time probably no shearer's quarters but camping.
see you then!
Freitag, 24. April 2009
Hey homeboys and gals!
It's been quite a while since my last post, I'm sorry for that. I actually created a photobucket account, but I still haven't uploaded photos.
Actually I'm wastin' my time with travelling around and having fun rather that uploading photos twice (facebook should do for the moment). However, I'm sorry for those of you who aren't on facebook and thus can't see the photos, I'll fix that (someday).
During the last few weeks I had some time for day-trips, first there was easter break and secondly I skipped some of my lectures, coz I had company of probably the 2 hippest austrians.
On Maundy Thursday together with Markus and Thijs, I headed of to the Tasman Peninsula, first to throw a glance on Tasman Arch and the devil's kitchen, then doing the Cape Hauy walk to the candlestick and the totem pole, to really impressive rocks.
The easter weekend was really relaxing then, and I got back to activity on monday, when I did a daytrip to Mt. Field national park, where one can visit some nice waterfalls. Unfortunately I didn't take money with my, so I couldn't stay for the night. For some reason they want $10 for the campsite. By that time most of my friends left for New Zealand or some nice place on the mainland. Those who stayed in Hobart had plenty of uni-work to do, so I had to use the self-timer of my camera during this trip.
Skipping some days of my life, we'll focus on the following weekend, when I was on geophysics excursion in the Upper Esk valley, about 3 hours drive from Hobart, in the north east of Tassie. We were acquiring some magnetic data and doing some seismic measurements. It's probably some basalt that's causing a big magnetic anomaly there. However, the weather was nice, we had fun and we were sleeping in a Shearers quarter. Really cool.
While I was driving home from Fingal on sunday, the two hip austrian dudes Clemens and Sam were arriving at Hobart at making their way to my home. The following week I skipped some lectures to show them Tassie.
On Monday I had prac though, so I sent them off to Wineglass bay. I reckon it was a nice trip for them.
The pharmacology prac instead revealed my shocking blood-pressure, but I'm sure you don't wanna go into detail on that.
From tuesday to wednesday I had some time for a trip with my friends, so, well, we headed up the east coast for maria island. Unfortunately there was no ferry on that day, so we changed our plans. We drove further on up the road (now it's time to get the eric clapton song for the right feeling) to taste some wine, eat some pancake and camp in a national park. Yes we had a great time.
But now I've gotta do some uni work, write a report which is due on monday, I have to finish that, so I can go rafting on sunday. We're leaving tomorrow, camp at the river and go down the river on sunday. I reckon it's gonna be a great trip. The forecast says rain and snow in the mountain, so there's gonna be a good water-level, and probably a nice snowy surrounding.
catch you later!
It's been quite a while since my last post, I'm sorry for that. I actually created a photobucket account, but I still haven't uploaded photos.
Actually I'm wastin' my time with travelling around and having fun rather that uploading photos twice (facebook should do for the moment). However, I'm sorry for those of you who aren't on facebook and thus can't see the photos, I'll fix that (someday).
During the last few weeks I had some time for day-trips, first there was easter break and secondly I skipped some of my lectures, coz I had company of probably the 2 hippest austrians.
On Maundy Thursday together with Markus and Thijs, I headed of to the Tasman Peninsula, first to throw a glance on Tasman Arch and the devil's kitchen, then doing the Cape Hauy walk to the candlestick and the totem pole, to really impressive rocks.
The easter weekend was really relaxing then, and I got back to activity on monday, when I did a daytrip to Mt. Field national park, where one can visit some nice waterfalls. Unfortunately I didn't take money with my, so I couldn't stay for the night. For some reason they want $10 for the campsite. By that time most of my friends left for New Zealand or some nice place on the mainland. Those who stayed in Hobart had plenty of uni-work to do, so I had to use the self-timer of my camera during this trip.
Skipping some days of my life, we'll focus on the following weekend, when I was on geophysics excursion in the Upper Esk valley, about 3 hours drive from Hobart, in the north east of Tassie. We were acquiring some magnetic data and doing some seismic measurements. It's probably some basalt that's causing a big magnetic anomaly there. However, the weather was nice, we had fun and we were sleeping in a Shearers quarter. Really cool.
While I was driving home from Fingal on sunday, the two hip austrian dudes Clemens and Sam were arriving at Hobart at making their way to my home. The following week I skipped some lectures to show them Tassie.
On Monday I had prac though, so I sent them off to Wineglass bay. I reckon it was a nice trip for them.
The pharmacology prac instead revealed my shocking blood-pressure, but I'm sure you don't wanna go into detail on that.
From tuesday to wednesday I had some time for a trip with my friends, so, well, we headed up the east coast for maria island. Unfortunately there was no ferry on that day, so we changed our plans. We drove further on up the road (now it's time to get the eric clapton song for the right feeling) to taste some wine, eat some pancake and camp in a national park. Yes we had a great time.
But now I've gotta do some uni work, write a report which is due on monday, I have to finish that, so I can go rafting on sunday. We're leaving tomorrow, camp at the river and go down the river on sunday. I reckon it's gonna be a great trip. The forecast says rain and snow in the mountain, so there's gonna be a good water-level, and probably a nice snowy surrounding.
catch you later!
Donnerstag, 2. April 2009
Good evening!
Now I'm back for another post. Call it appendix to my last one, since it includes the last weekend, again.
So let's focus on friday night, when I played my first game in Tasmanien Soccer Premier League. That day was really weird, since I didn't expect to get the clearance in time. However, After a big lunch I was sleeping, when suddenly my phone rang and someone from the soccer club told me, that I can play!!!
Since this wasn't clear until a couple of hours before the game, I was substitute, and played only the last 30mins. Unfortunately I wasn't able to turn the game, so we lost 3:0.
The rest of the weekend you already know from my last post.
Now there's nothing more to say, I reckon. This week was again a week of uni-life. Well, on monday I tried some eyedrops in the pharmacology practical, phenylephrine. I was lucky, of the 4 "human subjects" I was the one who got the drug, not affecting the vision, but only the constriction of the pupil. I must've been looking like a maniac, one pupil 0.8mm in diameter, the other one 0.4mm. Unfortunately I don't have a photo.
This weekend I'm planning to fill the photobucket with a whole lotta photos, that I wanna share with you. I hope I can add some slideshows to my blog!
have a nice day!
Now I'm back for another post. Call it appendix to my last one, since it includes the last weekend, again.
So let's focus on friday night, when I played my first game in Tasmanien Soccer Premier League. That day was really weird, since I didn't expect to get the clearance in time. However, After a big lunch I was sleeping, when suddenly my phone rang and someone from the soccer club told me, that I can play!!!
Since this wasn't clear until a couple of hours before the game, I was substitute, and played only the last 30mins. Unfortunately I wasn't able to turn the game, so we lost 3:0.
The rest of the weekend you already know from my last post.
Now there's nothing more to say, I reckon. This week was again a week of uni-life. Well, on monday I tried some eyedrops in the pharmacology practical, phenylephrine. I was lucky, of the 4 "human subjects" I was the one who got the drug, not affecting the vision, but only the constriction of the pupil. I must've been looking like a maniac, one pupil 0.8mm in diameter, the other one 0.4mm. Unfortunately I don't have a photo.
This weekend I'm planning to fill the photobucket with a whole lotta photos, that I wanna share with you. I hope I can add some slideshows to my blog!
have a nice day!
Mittwoch, 1. April 2009
Good Morning!
I just had a wonderful weekend at Bruny Island, we were a group of 12, very mixed group, you couldn't find a trend of who we were and we drove to Bruny Island for a nice camping adventure.
Again we were so lucky with the weather. On saturday it got up to 26°C and it was a starlit night. Camping in Tassie is awesome! There are many campsites around and you don't have to pay anything. Just put up your tent, a couple of meters away from the beach.
When swimming you can see some nice animals. This weekend I saw an octopus, some starfishes and a stingray. The stingray made us a little bit nervous though.
However the night was great, because we had a campfire, a guitar, 5.8kg meat and 120 bottles of beer.
I think you can imagine, that it's been a great weekend.
Monday, which was the day before yesterday, obvisously, was also great. I was at uni, when I got informed that Jeff plans a trip to clifton beach for surfing. Well nothing better than that, after finishing uni, I had 3 hours time to waste, before the pharmacology practical. So I drove out to clifton beach for some surfing experience. It was my first time, so I didn't have a lot of time standing on the board. Furthermore one of the three fins of the board was broken, not the best for stability.
After some time 2 dolphins showed up, how exciting.
And there is one thing you might not want to hear, but I simply can't always talk about the good things in life: Well, I've got a terrible pain in my back. It's because of the matress, I reckon. The next days I'll try sleeping on the floor and let you know, how this worked out.
I just had a wonderful weekend at Bruny Island, we were a group of 12, very mixed group, you couldn't find a trend of who we were and we drove to Bruny Island for a nice camping adventure.
Again we were so lucky with the weather. On saturday it got up to 26°C and it was a starlit night. Camping in Tassie is awesome! There are many campsites around and you don't have to pay anything. Just put up your tent, a couple of meters away from the beach.
When swimming you can see some nice animals. This weekend I saw an octopus, some starfishes and a stingray. The stingray made us a little bit nervous though.
However the night was great, because we had a campfire, a guitar, 5.8kg meat and 120 bottles of beer.
I think you can imagine, that it's been a great weekend.
Monday, which was the day before yesterday, obvisously, was also great. I was at uni, when I got informed that Jeff plans a trip to clifton beach for surfing. Well nothing better than that, after finishing uni, I had 3 hours time to waste, before the pharmacology practical. So I drove out to clifton beach for some surfing experience. It was my first time, so I didn't have a lot of time standing on the board. Furthermore one of the three fins of the board was broken, not the best for stability.
After some time 2 dolphins showed up, how exciting.
And there is one thing you might not want to hear, but I simply can't always talk about the good things in life: Well, I've got a terrible pain in my back. It's because of the matress, I reckon. The next days I'll try sleeping on the floor and let you know, how this worked out.
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