Long time, no Internet

It’s been a long time now, and I almost don’t know where to begin… We have traveled about 3000km since we left Pete’s Fish Farm, and we’re now in Albany, Western Australia. After we left Penola and the fish farm we traveled through Adelaide and spent the night at an over-night rest area before we went to Port Augusta. We stayed there for a night, because that would be the last place before the great outback we could buy new tiers for our car. JT have been stressing about our tiers since we bought the car, and when we got the cherry picking job he said that he would buy new tiers as soon as he got paid. We didn’t earn that much, I guess we just got enough to pay for our stay at the fish farm, but when Pete commented our worn down tiers when we were about to leave we knew that the time had come. We got new tiers and started the very long drive towards Western Australia. When we got to the other side of the border we drove 145,6km on Australia’s longest straight road. The scenery looked completely the same all the way that it was impossible to know where we were (there was signs to let us know that we were going in the right direction, fortunately).

We got to Albany yesterday, after spending five nights in the most beautiful place I have ever seen. JT read about it in one of our travel books, and I’m so happy that we went there. Cape Le Grand National Park is absolutely a place to visit if you’re ever in the area (or even if you’re not in the area, it’s worth getting to the area to visit it)! The beaches were AMAZING! The sand was whiter that white and the water was so clear that you could be tempted to drink it and the color were so vibrant blue that it took my breath away. If it weren’t for the lack of drinking water I think we would still be there now. But the traveling continues… it always does….

Today we have washed our car (something we should have done a long time ago) and tomorrow we’re going to a guy called Steve to repair a small crack in our windscreen. After that we’ll follow the coast further west to a national park somewhere where we can relax and enjoy life.

Because we haven’t been online in a while I would like to congratulate my mother-in-law, Margit, with her birthday on Monday, January 28^th. We celebrated your birthday on the most beautiful beach in the world. We love you!!! Hugs and kisses from both of usJ

Live life and love it.

Lotte

After three months sleeping in our car we got a motel-room in Esperance (we stayed one night before we went to Cape Le Grand National Park). It was a big contrast to staying in a national park, where we paid $18 per night (2 people) paying $139 for one night in the motel.

Cape Le Grand National Park

 

Lucky Bay



PS. It's impossible to capture the beauty of the beach, but you get the idea...

The journey continues

The cherry work is soon done, and we're moving on.... There will be one day or so left of work (but we don't know when that is yet) so when the pay check is ready we'll be heading west toward Perth and the west coast of Australia. There's no more work here at the moment, and we now feel that the time is right to get back on the road. Some of the other people we've been working with left the other day, and I really felt an urge to travel and experience new things and new places. Pete's Fish Farm has been truly amazing, and the people we've met will always be in our hearts, but never the less, the time has come to move on. We haven't made that much money, but we now feel at ease with continuing our journey with what we have, and we know that the Universe will provide us with all we need (money, people and circumstances). Life is good :)

Live life and love it.

Lotte

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy new year everybody!!! We wish you all an amazing year :)
Life is still good, and we're enjoying this beautiful country down under. On new years eve we went to Beachport to see the fireworks, but after driving for a long time to get there (some of our friends had been drinking a lot so we had to stop every five minutes) we were told that there wouldn't be any fireworks. We had a nice time with friends, so the fireworks didn't really matter that much for us:)

We have been working at the cherry farm for a couple of weeks and two days ago we got our first pay check. We didn't keep track of how much we had earned, so we got a great surprise when we got the check and saw that we had earned a nice amount of money. The last few days have been really warm, somebody told me that it was 47 degrees the day before yesterday, so that makes it impossible to work, and it also makes the cherry trees draw all the water from the fruits to survive and the cherries get ruined. The hottest days we worked from 6am to about 11am and then all we could do was to go home and cool off in a pond that Pete and Kay have made for backpackers to swim in. One of the days we went to Robe to go to the beach as well. It was so warm in the car on the way there that JT almost fell asleep while we was driving. It was absolutely exhausting! But the 1 hour drive to get there was worth it! We went to a beach called Long Beach, and it was so cool!!! We could drive our car down on the beach and park on the beach close to the water. The beach was so long that we could have a big part of the beach for ourselves if we hadn't been to tiered to drive any further. Anyway, it was the most perfect beach I have ever been to :) The water was nice and turquoise-green and the beach was beautiful!!

Today we have the day off so we're heading to Port McDonnell to check out a food and music festival that's suppose to be on the beach there today. Now we're at the library in Mount Gambier to update the blog before heading for the beach.

Our beautiful niece Benedicte had her first birthday January 1st! Happy birthday, angel!!! We wish you all the best in the world :) We love you!!!

Life is good in this moment, and in this moment, and in this moment....
Live life and love it :)
Lotte

LONG BEACH - ROBE