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We start­ed going up to Clare Val­ley and as it was always the very first days, many things remind­ed meof home. In Castle­maine I met an Aus­tri­an woman who is a friend of a friend of mine.

Now in Clare Val­ley we were at a wine tast­ing of Jesuits. As you might know the Jesuits helps me and my friend with our project in Zambia.
We had our lunch at Mount Remark­able. If we start in Aus­tria with nam­ing moun­tains like that we need to give them num­bers: Yes­ter­day I was at Mount Remark­able 3467, it was great. But it is remark­able that this moun­tain is the rain bor­der. Up to north it is only 200mm rain a year (when it rains) and farm­ing becomes quite impossible.
We saw the first ruins of farm houses.
And also the first abo­rig­i­nal secret place.

At the end I could say that I nev­er felt good at males places and there were more till the end of the jour­ney. The curios­i­ty won but I don’t know if I would go the next time.
In the evening we arrived at Wilpe­na pound. This is a dead vul­cano. I decid­ed to sleep out­side in a swag it is some­how a water­proof matress. Beside all the oth­er ani­mals I could imag­ine, it was fun­ny to be awaked by the hop of a skipy (a wal­la­by — for us Aus­tri­ans a kan­ga­roo). I was­n’t aware that this was we got up late (between 6 and 7). The first group (the ear­li­er ones) went up to over­see the crater. I belonged to the lat­er group and we went into the crater in a nice walk. 

On Sun­day we stopped in Mel­bourne lis­ten­ing to Milk.

and it was nice that I was remem­bered on a friend: They played at Hotel Union. At the very first days many mem­o­ries came to sur­face. That was quite inter­est­ing cause I did­n’t expect it in no way. 

Vor 2 Stun­den bin ich in Alice angekommen.
Nur kurz, weil ich jet­zt gle­ich noch Abschied feiern geh.
Ich hab mir frei­willig eine Tour aus­gewählt, wo man täglich um 5.00 (es war auch 4.15, aber auch 6.00) mor­gens auf­ste­ht, um Son­nenaufgänge oder Wan­derun­gen zu machen.
Heute war der erste benei­denswerte Tag, ca 27 grad. es kann auch heiss­er gewe­sen sein, auf jeden fall fühlte es sich kühl an.
Aber ich dachte nicht, dass ich 50 grad überlebe.
Eben­so hab ich 2x draussen geschlafen, let­zte Nacht war der Mond zu hell, da bin ich in ein Luxu­szelt gewandert.
Mor­gen geht es nach Dar­win und wenn ich gut aufgelegt bin, gibt es noch Aus­führlicheres zu den let­zten Tagen.

hal­lo ihr alle,
now it’s my 4th day out, 2 nights sleep­ing out­doors with the milky­way above me and one night like in school times with a bunch of peo­ple in the room. It is ter­ri­bly hot but I still live. Today we arrived in Coober Pedy and we have now 50 degrees. But in side the mines we had 24 and we are look­ing for­ward to the night indoors with 24 degrees and no ani­mals. Although it is fan­tas­tic that I sur­vived till now. I saw Emus, skip­ies (kan­gu­rus), rep­tiles (alive!!!), drometar, sheeps and cows of course, goats, dogs and cats, I put a big, big spi­der away, swam in 2 mil­lion old water which was spar­kel­ing and more alive than any oth­er water I saw in my life. And I don’t under­stand that I can be so hap­py when it’s so awful hot.
Next days I will be on the road again on Wednes­day I will arrive in Alice. But now I go for a swim. More next time!!!