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<title><![CDATA[Scenic Sunday]]></title>
<link>http://shakatak66.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/scenic-sunday-3/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anne S</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shakatak66.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/scenic-sunday-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is my choice for this week&#8217;s Scenic Sunday &#8211; Mossman Gorge, near Port Douglas, Quee]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Here is my choice for this week&#8217;s Scenic Sunday &#8211; Mossman Gorge, near Port Douglas, Queensland.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2382472940047689748yggcGP"><img src="http://inlinethumb22.webshots.com/43029/2382472940047689748S600x600Q85.jpg" alt="Mossman Gorge, QLD" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://scenicsunday.blogspot.com/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1954" title="Scenic Sunday" src="http://shakatak66.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/scenic-sunday.jpg" alt="Scenic Sunday" width="125" height="125" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img style="background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54486/290/EC676FE312405438C99A6329270E9BE4.png" alt="" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia #1: lo spettacolo dei tropici]]></title>
<link>http://giupan.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/australia-1-lo-spettacolo-dei-tropici/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>giupan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Finalmente ce l&#8217;ho fatta!  Ho iniziato a buttare giù i racconti del viaggetto in Downunder orm]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-1430 aligncenter" src="http://giupan.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/map-au_cairns.png" alt="Prima tappa a Downunder: Cairns, nel Queensland!" title="Prima tappa a Downunder: Cairns, nel Queensland!" width="509" height="472" /></p>
<p>Finalmente ce l&#8217;ho fatta!  Ho iniziato a buttare giù i racconti del <em>viaggetto</em> in Downunder ormai 2 mesi fa (28 Aprile &#8211; 10 Maggio 2009).</p>
<p>In realtà ci sono così tante cose da raccontare e da mostrare che più che un blog sembra di scrivere un romanzo&#8230; ma visti i tempi, vanno più di moda le fiction e pubblicherò questo viaggio <em>a puntate</em>, anche perchè il tempo di scrivere tutto in una volta non ce l&#8217;ho.</p>
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<div id="attachment_1425" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 250px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1425" href="http://giupan.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/australia-1-lo-spettacolo-dei-tropici/dsc04673_2/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1425" title="Alla lagoon di Cairns" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3365/3664150883_18d31287ec.jpg" alt="Sguardo tropicale" width="240" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alla lagoon di Cairns</p></div>
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A questo scopo ho creato una <a title="Australia" href="http://giupan.wordpress.com/australia"><strong>pagina apposita</strong></a> (vedi menu in alto) che conterrà il viaggio per intero, incluse le foto, anche se la aggiornerò di volta in volta dandone notizia qui sulla Home.</p>
<p>La prima puntata è ambientata nell&#8217;Australia tropicale del Queensland. Facendo base a <strong>Cairns</strong>, dal 29 Aprile al 1 Maggio ci siamo veramente goduti lo spettacolo dei tropici, dalla <strong>Grande Barriera Corallina</strong> alla<strong> foresta pluviale</strong> con un&#8217;infinità di specie viventi che non si trovano altrove!
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<p>Non vi anticipo altro, a parte queste due foto, e vi lascio al romanzo augurandovi <strong>buon viaggio virtuale</strong> in <a href="http://giupan.wordpress.com/australia">AUSTRALIA</a>!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://giupan.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/australia-1-lo-spettacolo-dei-tropici/dsc04673_2/" rel="attachment wp-att-1425"><img src="http://giupan.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/dsc04673_2.jpg" alt="Sguardo tropicale" title="Vista tropicale" width="510" class="size-full wp-image-1425" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Oz Trip - Day 3]]></title>
<link>http://theunaustralian.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/oz-trip-day-3/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 12:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theunaustralian</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theunaustralian.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/oz-trip-day-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Port Jackson, the Daintree &amp; Mossman Gorge So we wake up the next day, the weather is sucking ba]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em><strong>Port Jackson, the Daintree &#38; Mossman Gorge<br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o242/theunaustralian/Australia%20MAR2009/P1020875.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="474" height="355" /></p>
<p>So we wake up the next day, the weather is sucking balls as usual &#8211; but we have to take a cab to the Airpot to pick up the car I hired from Avis. It was a tiny, red Hyundai Getz. Fukn awesome car to drive around, especially because it was manual! Seriously, drive one &#8211; you&#8217;ll love how crap it accelerates. I am not lying, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Especially because <em>my biche </em>isn&#8217;t used to my way of driving (bah ha ha ha &#8211; no, I think I am a good driver though). Anyway, I decided to hire a car instead of doing a tour, since I have already done the last year &#8211; I can show her myself. So we started off with the 1.5hr drive to Port Jackon and then the 30min drive to Mossman Gorge (as seen above). Last year, I wholly regretted not being able to swim in the Daintree, and luckily I was able to do it this year. Marine on the otherhand was hesistant because of the Crocs (bah ha ha).<!--more--><em><strong>Port Douglas</strong></em></p>
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<p>Breakfast was at this health food place on the main strip of Port Douglas, across the road from the Coles. We were trying to halt the onslaught of fatty foods that Australia has to offer. I didn&#8217;t really care in the end, food is food &#8211; I just want my jelly (which you can see on the top, right hand corner). I had the big breakfast of course, perfectly presented with proper hash browns. Must have been $18 I think. I fucking missed baked beans with eggs and toast!</p>
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<p>Marine&#8217;s one must have been $12. God &#8211; usually I am good with the prices, but usually (when I used to do this blog properly anyway, and I used to convert everything to Australian dollars) I completed the blog on the day it happened. Nowadays, I don&#8217;t have the time to do that. I don&#8217;t like poached eggs, boiling a cracked egg is just not right. But my experience of the Australian tomato has been good. That stuff tastes sweet in Australia, cos seriously &#8211; in England it has the taste of lime with the texture of mashed potato.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o242/theunaustralian/Australia%20MAR2009/CIMG6585.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></p>
<p>Anywho &#8211; I had already taken photos of Port Douglas beach last year, and though we spent an hour or so on the beach, it wasn&#8217;t worth taking a photo since it had recently rained and the beach looked like shit. It had washed up leaves/bark/sea weed/dead animals etc strewn across the sand so it wasn&#8217;t a very pleasant sight. The tour guide said last year that the beach was shit, and he wondered why people came there &#8211; I guess he was right, but ma biche got some sun, so it was all good. So did my cool Hyundai Getz, I looked cool driving it &#8211; and it went faster cos it was red!</p>
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<p>Anywho &#8211; we hung out at the Sunday Markets &#8211; filled to the brim with white people. No ethnics in sight, except the odd Aborigine and random Asian (me). There were these little kids playing the flute for money (beggar kids) who looked absolutely dirty, definitely Mt Druitt types. But who could blame them when the whole market was bloody muddy. The place was a tourist trap, people buying shit imported from Asia and sold 1000% profit. There were some bags that Marine liked, and it looked like Filipinos were selling them &#8211; they ended up being Thai people &#8230; god damn it, I hate Thai people assholes look so much like us.</p>
<p><em><strong>The Daintree &#38; Mossman Gorge</strong></em></p>
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<p>As we were lying on the beach, we were deciding what to do next. The weather wasn&#8217;t really good for sunbaking (it was a bit cloudy, and like I said &#8211; the beach was a bit shit house). So we headed off to the Daintree. Was much more beautiful this time round, considering I didn&#8217;t have to listen to some guy pointing at random fern. AND we could go at our own pace. Even got to point out the Aborigine Communities they had nearby (was sort of hard to explain how that worked). But yeah &#8211; got to the Daintree, I can&#8217;t believe I remembered how to get there (cos I fucking rock). I was expressing my deep excitement to swim, couldn&#8217;t freaken wait! <em>Ma poor biche </em>was still scared of the crocodiles. (Btw &#8211; the photo above wasn&#8217;t taken with my camera, it was Marine&#8217;s).</p>
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<p>(Again not my camera) &#8211; Last time, I wasn&#8217;t really able to take it all in. Seriously, this time round it was excellent. The photos definitely did not look like this. There was no rushing around this time, and no me complaining about some fat emo who put me on a tour bus with all these bloody old pepole. Instead, I was stuck with a hot French chick! Bah ha ha &#8211; or she was stuck with me. She had no one to translate her French into the local dialects, otherwise we would have been lost. The Queensland derro is quite similar to the Mt Druitt derro accent &#8230; my Marayong dialect is still effective though.</p>
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<p>Anywho &#8211; quick snap of a local near the white water of the Mossman Gorge. The water tasted NICE!!! It was yellow looking for some reason, it was aqua last year &#8211; but it was NICE! I thought it was cold at first, but it really wasn&#8217;t &#8211; it was just cold in comparison to the 30degrees outside the water. It was fucking HARD to swim through that current though, seriously &#8211; no wonder people are killed underneath those rocks &#8211; there&#8217;s no pushing past that. But you would have to be bloody stupid to do that anyway.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o242/theunaustralian/Australia%20MAR2009/img023.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="479" height="297" /></p>
<p>Anywho &#8211; managed to coax Marine into the water. Convinced her that a crocodile would have a shit load of difficulty climbing up the moutain, through the white water into the Mossman Gorge, past the hungry Japanese folk. She was quite afraid at first, but the bugs outside the water scared her. Or was it a tiny ant &#8230; I don&#8217;t know which. But she got in. So we left out passports in a bush and we both got in the tranquil water of the Daintree, with some fat white woman staring perplexed at the mixed race couple getting it on in the water.</p>
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<p>I make it look like there was only Marine &#38; I &#8211; but there were a lot of families there on the easter weekend. Heaps. Germans too (and they&#8217;re the only ones who would be likely to be bitten by a Crocodile, even in the Mossman Gorge &#8211; I love the Germans, but they seem to be the only people in Australia stupid enough to approach Crocodiles besides the experts). But I have to say, swimming in the Mossman Gorge was nearly equal to snorkling in the Barrier Reef. I really enjoyed myself there, and was glad to have finally done what I genuinely wanted to do last year. Probably made even more better because I was able to share it with <em>ma biche</em>.</p>
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<p>Again, not much wild-life this year. Which was a bit disappointing, though we did catch sight of a wild turkey. He he he &#8211; get it? Wild Turkey &#8211; only figured that one out recently. Bah ha ha ha. I am so funny. Wobble gobble.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Honeymoon, the rest.]]></title>
<link>http://tashish.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/honeymoon-the-rest/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tashish</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tashish.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/honeymoon-the-rest/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The notes get a little sketchy from here. All I know is that Thursday was spent cruising from Palm C]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The notes get a little sketchy from here. All I know is that Thursday was spent cruising from Palm Cove to Kuranda, then on to the Atherton tablelands, stopping for rainforest walks and Devonshire tea at Lake Barrine along the way.</p>
<p>Friday, I think, we headed up to the Daintree. Palm Cove and the actual town of Daintree were underwhelming, but Mossman Gorge, and the Daintree river were lovely.</p>
<p>Saturday, Sunday and Monday were spent lazing by the pool, in defiance of the impending trip home, and also in defiance of every sunsmart commercial ever made, because by the time I returned home, I looked like Dr Zoidberg.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Saturday 17th January 2009]]></title>
<link>http://feefeeontour.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/saturday-17th-january-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>feefeeontour</dc:creator>
<guid>http://feefeeontour.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/saturday-17th-january-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today we got up early and had breakfast. We once again made sandwiches to bring with us as we were d]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Circuit #4 - Days 40 &amp; 41]]></title>
<link>http://90daysinaustralia.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/circuit-days-41-42/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>90daysinaustralia</dc:creator>
<guid>http://90daysinaustralia.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/circuit-days-41-42/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nous sommes partis pour un circuit qui nous emmenera dans la partie la plus septentrionnale de notre]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:left;">Nous sommes partis pour un circuit qui nous emmenera dans la partie la plus septentrionnale de notre voyage : <span style="color:#339966;">Cape Tribulation</span>.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Jour 1</span></p>
<p>Nous avons fait un premier arret a <span style="color:#800080;">Port Douglas</span>, une ville tres chic apparament frequentee par les stars. Nous nous sommes baignees dans l`eau chaude de la mer. Mhhh</p>
<p>Puis nous sommes arrivees aux <span style="color:#993300;">Mossman Gorges </span>reputee pour leur rainforest. Nous nous sommes balladees pendant une heure dans cette foret qui se caracterise par de grands arbres dont les racines sortent parfois hors de terre, des lianes, des bruits inquietants&#8230; Bref on se croirait dans <span style="color:#339966;">Tarzan</span>! Et au milieu coule une riviere. Les seuls animaux que nous avons croises sont des especes de dindons qui essaient de voler! On essaie de se renseigner sur le nom exact de la bete.</p>
<p>Nous sommes arrivees a la <span style="color:#333399;">Daintree river </span>sur laquelle nous avons fait une croisiere d`une heure. On a vu deux bebes crocodiles tres mignons et un enorme croco, moins rassurant. On a aussi observe notre premier <span style="color:#cc99ff;">serpent </span>a l`etat sauvage, enroule sur une branche. Parmi les voyageurs, il y avait deux grenouilles de la meme famille que celle qui s`etait invitee dans notre douche a Broome !</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://90daysinaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/100_2957.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-553 aligncenter" title="100_2957" src="http://90daysinaustralia.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/100_2957.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
<p>Remontees dans le bus, nous avons pris un <span style="color:#003366;">ferry</span> qui permet aux vehicules de traverser la Daintree River sans se faire manger par les crocos. C`est ainsi que nous sommes arrivees au Daintree National Park. Nous avons roule dans la <span style="color:#008080;">rainforest</span> jusqu`a notre hotel.</p>
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<p>Apres avoir range nos affaires, nous sommes alles admirer la <span style="color:#ffcc00;">plage</span> de Cape Tribulation au coucher de soleil. C`est tres sauvage et magnifique. Malheureusement, encore une fois, il est dangeureux de se baigner dans cette mer car il y a des meduses ! Il y avait de mysterieuses petites boules de sable, on se demande comment elles se sont formees !</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://90daysinaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/100_3027.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-556  aligncenter" title="100_3027" src="http://90daysinaustralia.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/100_3027.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
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<p>Nous sommes allees nous coucher vers 9h30, nos compagnons de chambre dormaient deja. Gentiment, nous n`avons donc pas allume la lumiere et avons fait le moins de bruit possible.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">Jour 2</span></p>
<p>Nous avons ete remerciee le lendemain matin par les filles de notre chambre qui parlaient et agissaient comme si personne, en l`occurence nous, ne dormait ! Ca nous apprendra a etre bien elevee !</p>
<p>Nous nous sommes de nouveau baladees dans la rainforest, mais cette fois seules. Nous nous sommes encore senties comme dans un film d`indiana jones. Et l`aventure etait au rendez vous : Un enorme <span style="color:#ff0000;">lezard</span>, mini crocodile, peut etre un dragon, se tenait en plein milieu du sentier amenage. Nous l`avons prudemment suivi et quand il est enfin reparti dans les trefonds de la foret, nous avons pu continuer plus sereinement notre chemin.</p>
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<p>Apres une petite baignade dans la jolie piscine de l`hotel,  nous avons tente de bronzer sur la plage. Mais il ne faisait pas tres beau, il a meme un peu plu. En fait a chaque fois que l`on veut bronzer sur une plage magnifique, il pleut !</p>
<p>En fin d`apres midi le soleil est revenu. Mais notre chauffeur de bus etait deja la pour nous ramener a Cairns. Il conduisait assez dangeureusement et il a meme failli perdre un <span style="color:#c0c0c0;">sac</span> (heureusement pas le notre). En effet la petite remorque a l`arriere du bus s`est ouverte et un sac est tombe. La voiture qui nous suivait a ralenti suffisemment tot pour ne pas l`ecraser !</p>
<p>Nous sommes revenue saine et sauve a <span style="color:#33cccc;">Cairns</span>, prete pour notre excursion du lendemain sur la barriere de corail !</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff6600;">PS</span> : Nous avons enfin pu mettre quelques photos sur les posts precedents. Enjoy !</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cape Tribulation]]></title>
<link>http://jsabella.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/cape-tribulation/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Allebasj</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jsabella.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/cape-tribulation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So gern wir auch in Kuranda geblieben waeren, unsere Reise ging weiter &#8211; wir haben es nicht be]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So gern wir auch in Kuranda geblieben waeren, unsere Reise ging weiter &#8211; wir haben es nicht bereut. Allein die Anreise den Cook Highway hoch Richtung Cape Tribulation hats in sich. Kilometerlang gibts solche Ausblicke zu sehen. Einfach traumhaft.</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/highway.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-638" title="highway" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/highway.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<p>Der Daintree Nationalpark ist der aelteste Regenwald der Welt. Und der einzige wo Regenwald direkt ans Meer grenzt. Einfach atemberaubend, was wir auf unseren Wanderungen durch dichten Jungle gesehen haben.</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/strasse.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-645" title="strasse" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/strasse.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Mossman Gorge</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/mossmangorge.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-640" title="mossmangorge" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/mossmangorge.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/regenwald.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-641" title="regenwald" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/regenwald.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/regenwald1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-642" title="regenwald1" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/regenwald1.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/regenwald2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-643" title="regenwald2" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/regenwald2.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
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<p>Die Cassowary kennt ihr ja schon. Wir hatten echt Glueck, dass wir welche gesehen haben. Zuerst auf diesem Schild <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  aber dann auch in Lebensgroesse. Sehr schoene Tiere &#8211; leider vom Aussterben bedroht.</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cassowaryschild.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-648" title="cassowaryschild" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/cassowaryschild.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cassowary.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-649" title="cassowary" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/cassowary.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Was guckst du? Guter Zoom oder nicht? Isa hat sich ganz nah an dieses Kroko herangepierscht und diesen Schnappschuss geschafft.</p>
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<p>Klar, dass sie hier gut lachen hat. Sie hats ueberlebt&#8230; und das Kroko auch. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/isa.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-653" title="isa" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/isa.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Von denen gibts hier im Nationalpark genug und ueberall wird man davor gewarnt.</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/croco1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-651" title="croco1" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/croco1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Unsere erste Schlange. Klein, aber fein und nicht giftig.</p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/snake.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-652" title="snake" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/snake.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Der beruehmte Strand am Cape Tribulation. Fast menschenleer und einfach traumhaft. Kein Wunder ist bei dem Anblick der gute Captain Cook vor ueber 200 Jahren hier in ein Riff gefahren und waere fast gesunken. Ach ja, waere er hier gesunken und nicht nach England zurueckgekehrt, waere jetzt Australien franzoesisch. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Und wir haetten hier leckeres, knuspriges Baguette. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/capetribulation.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-646" title="capetribulation" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/capetribulation.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jsabella.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palme.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-647" title="palme" src="http://jsabella.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/palme.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Es waren echt wunderschoene Tage und aufregende Naechte &#8211; wir wissen ja nicht, ob ein Kroko vor unserem Spike auf uns wartet. Leider muessen wir weiter. Jetzt noch ein paar Tage in Cairns und dann wollen wir mal das wahre Australien kennen lernen &#8211; das Outback!</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Das Internet in unserer Site laeuft noch immer nicht, daher sitzte ich gerad wieder im Internetcafe ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Das Internet in unserer Site laeuft noch immer nicht, daher sitzte ich gerad wieder im Internetcafe in Cairns.</p>
<p>Die letzten tage waere ich ohnehin nicht zum schreiben gekommen, da wir fleissig am Tauchen waren. Carina etwas fleissiger als ich da sie ihren Kurs hatte und gestern erfolgreich abgeschlossen hat.</p>
<p>Die ersten beiden Tage hatte Carina Poolunterricht, an denen ich mir zuerst Cairns am ersten tag angeschaut habe. Am zweiten Tag war dann eine Tour nach Mossbman Gorge, Daintree und Co. anegesagt. Noch immer habe ich Kangeroos nur aus der (weiten) Ferne gesehen. Koalas noch gar nicht. Auch wenn Inga in ihrem Beitrag wenig Mut auf die Entdeckung von Koalas gemacht hat, hoffe ich doch sehr, dass wir noch welche sehen. Wenn schon nicht in der Natur, dass aber wenigsten im Australia Zoo in der Naehe von Brisbane. Auf der Tour nach Daintree, etc. konnte ich aber zumindest die ersten Tiere sehen, die es in Deutschland so in der Natur nicht gibt. Klasse war das ca. 5 Meter grosse Krokodil im Daintree River. Laut Guide etwa 7 Jahre alt. Ein kleinen Tipp, den der Guide ausserdem gab war, dass man nicht so viel auf die Empfehlungen anderer geben sollte, wenn es darum geht vor einem Krok zu fluechten. Er meinte er haette schon gehoert, dass das Laufen im Kreis und das ZickZackL-Laufen solche Tiere verwirren wuerde. Offensichtlich aber alles Bullshit. Gerade in der Zeit von Olympia sollte man versuchen den 200m Weltarekord zu brechen und geradeaus Gas zu geben. Ich moechte mich schon einmal fuer die folgende Pauschalisierung entschuldigen, aber Russen sind einfach die duemmsten Menschen, die es gibt. Zumindest das Exemplar, das auf dieser River-Cruise dabei war. Etwa zwei Minuten nachdem erzaehlt wurde, dass es gibt die Tiere in ihrer natuerlichen Umgebung zu schuetzen, nicht zu stoeren und die Natur sauber zu halten, nimmt dieser Vollidiot ein grosses Stueck Muell aus seinem Rucksack und wirft es nach dem Krok. So stinksauer habe ich einen Guide noch nicht gesehen. Es sah so aus als ob er ueberlegt den Russen zu erschiessen oder ihn ins Wasser zu werfen. Letzten Endes hat es sich dann doch fuer nen Einlauf entschieden und waerend der gesamten Tour des oefteren Wiederholt, das er immer wieder erlebt, dass manchen Menschen doch noch eher an Affen als an Menschen erinnern. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Die letzten beiden Tage (gestern und vorgestern) habe ich auf dem selben Boot wie Carina jeweils zwei Tauchgaenge gemacht. Nach fast drei Jahren war ich mir gar mal mehr so sicher ob das noch klappt, aber alleslieft wunderbar. Die beiden kleinen (ca. 1.5m grossen) Haie, die Carinas Gruppe gesehen hat, blieben uns leider verwehrt. Dafuer hatte meine Gruppe das Glueck und konnte 2 Schildkroeten auf etwa 5 Meter Tiefe sehen. Klasse Geschichte. Auch wenn das Boot am ersten Tag mit ca. 120 Leuten recht gross war, hat alles ganz gut geklappt. Abgesehen vielleicht von Carinas kleinem Zusammenstoss mit einer Koralle, die dann gleich einen grossen eindruck hinterlassen hat. Es sah aus wie ein grosser &#8220;Brennnesselstich&#8221; der ab zum Glueck nicht lange geschmerzt hat. Schmerzhafter ist dan doch der Sonnenbrand, der uns bloede Touristen erwischt hat. Trotz Wolken und nur etwa einer Stunde in der Sonne habe ich das erste Mal erleben koennen, dass ich einen Sonnenbrand auf der Brust habe. Nicht einmal auf Hawaii hab ich das geschafft und da lag man dann doch noch etwas laenger in er Sonne.</p>
<p>Der gestrige Tag war etwas entspannter auf dem Boot. Da nur etwa 6 Taucher an Bord waren, die schon einen Schein hatten, war die Gruppe mit der ich tauchen konnte recht klein und so macht es auch mehr Spass, als wenn man mit einer 10 Leute grossen Gruppe losmuss. Zwar hatten wir nen daemlichen Englaender dabei, der wirklich nicht viel konnte. (Ich frage mich, wer dem seinen Schein gegeben hat?) Da er aber wie wild hin uns her tauchte, war er schon nach etwa 20 Minuten ausser Luft und konnte zurueck zum Boot.</p>
<p>Bevor es morgen losgeht, stehen heute noch die letzten Einkaeufe auf dem Programm bevor es heute Nachmittag mit Anna und Jonas auf eine Tour durch den Botanic Garden in Cairns geht. Morgen Vormittag um ca. 10 geht die Fahrerei los. Bisher ist mir dabei noch nicht sonderlich wohl. Linksverkehr, ne Menge Roundabouts (Kreisverkehre) und Naechte in denen das fahren wg. der Kangeroos auf der Strasse wohl nahezu unmoeglich machen, bereiten mir ein wenig Angst. Zum Glueck hat sich Carina bereit erklaert die erste Strecke zu fahren. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  Wo kann ich mir das ganze beruhigt als Beifahrer anschauen.</p>
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<link>http://buffhungerland.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/great-barrier-reef/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>buffhungerland</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Great Barrier Reef   I never imagined I’d snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef.  First, it’s way out at]]></description>
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<p><span><span> </span>I never imagined I’d snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef.  First, it’s way out at sea, and I’m afraid of drowning.  It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not a good swimmer.  I am.  I have taught swimming, been a lifeguard for a summer, and grew up with one of those Southern California kidney-shaped pools in the back yard.  I love the feeling of little gravity and the silky skimming through the water.  I relax doing lazy laps.  I’m an aging water baby.  But in the deep dark bowels of the night, I have a huge fear of drowning.  So, enjoying the trunk-full of concentration it takes to snorkel just wasn’t even on my list of lifetime must-do’s.</span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>Second, you have to go in the ocean to snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef.  Other creatures are in there with you.  Sharks and things.  Eels and things.  Whales and things.  Jellyfish who sting and things.  OK, I’m a bit scared to swim in the sea since I got caught in a rip tide when I was in my teens on the California coast.  </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>But, my daughter suggested an all-family trip up beyond Cairns, the first all-family trip we’d had in 15 years, and I got swept up in the adventure. </span> <span><span> </span>“Sure!”  I said, forgetting that I was packing around a few dozen fears accumulated over a lifetime.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span><span style="color:#551a8b;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;margin:6px;" src="http://buffhungerland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dscf2490.jpg?w=400&#038;h=300" alt="Pt. Douglas house" width="400" height="300" /></span>Friends recommended Pt. Douglas over Cairns as a walk-able, family-oriented town.  Renting a house in town in season was pricy (see house on Davidson St. at left) but having the space and a little lap pool gave us room to read and splash and travel well with a happy eight-year-old.  Believe me, when the eight-year-old was happy, we were all happy.  </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>We booked our snorkeling trip in a smaller boat that held 30 people.  We stepped out of our sandals on shore and on board were immediately fitted for fins, short wet-suits, masks and snorkels.  It was a slightly windy day and I was grateful for the motion-sickness pills we’d acquired the night before at the chemist from a wide array them on the shelf.  The excursion company had some pills on board too, along with breakfast and tea and later an interesting, but largely-untouched lunch.  Some snorklers who had not taken advantage of the pills made full use of the bright plastic buckets piled at the end of the benches, with long ropes attached for sluicing out at sea.</span></p>
<p><span>We made our way slowly out of the harbor and into the open channel, <span style="color:#551a8b;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignright" style="float:right;margin:6px;" src="http://buffhungerland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dscf2443_2.jpg?w=317&#038;h=122" alt="Pt. Douglas lighthouse" width="317" height="122" /></span>passing tiny coral islands and the Pt. Douglas lighthouse. We turned out into the reef that extends from Brisbane up to Papua New Guinea with the wind at our flank and cruised thirty-five kilometers or so out into the Coral Sea. Australia protects the Great Barrier Reef as a National Marine Park, but the reef and its creatures lose their protection beyond Australian waters.</span></p>
<p><span><span> </span> The twin engines strained against the wind and the hull slapped the wave tops.  An hour and a half later, the exhaust-breeze stilled, and we moored at a buoy leased by the tour company from the Park authorities.  </span><span>The experienced snorkelers jammed on fins, snorkels and masks and hopped off the boat like penguins leaping off the jagged shoreline to feed after months of privation.  Others of us less experienced edged off the dive platform gingerly, spitting and blowing and trying to coordinate several unfamiliar new actions all at one time.  Flutter, don’t frog kick with fins on.  Mouth breathe and ignore the warm water trapped in the mask. And the hardest &#8212; relax.  Flutter, relax, breathe, blow.  And, as my husband learned, not once but several times, don’t say “Wow!” with a snorkel in your mouth.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span><span style="color:#0000ee;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;margin:6px;" src="http://buffhungerland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bluestaghorn.jpg?w=360&#038;h=270" alt="blue staghorn" width="360" height="270" /></span>And “Wow!” was all I could think – so much to see, so many coral forms, so many colors, so much to concentrate on, such an intense experience.  And that’s without really looking at the incredible number of fish in constant motion.  </span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>The bright blue stag coral stood out, but the rest of the coral was more muted – mauve, tan, claret, citrine, olive – colors taken from the organisms that lived in each coral form.  Some forms were rounded and soft, some looked like antlers, some like plates on a stalk, and others looked like flowers opened to the sun.  </span> <span><span> </span>The fish, on the other hand, were brighter, more saturated colors but mottled and striped for protection – yellow with blue dots, green and magenta in a coral pattern, orange and black stripes – and fan-shaped, and butterflies and knob-headed and parrot beaked. (<em>photo credit:  Wavelength Reef Charters.  See url below</em>.)</span></p>
<p><span><span> </span> I just couldn’t absorb everything I saw and our little disposable underwater camera couldn’t capture the wonder.  We over-use words and over-hype things we experience, but in this case, the wonder was silencing, humbling, awe-inspiring.  I felt puny and at the same time responsible in a new way for my own choices in co-existence.  </span> <span><span> </span>We snorkeled at two more sites, swimming away from the boat and letting the wind and waves carry us back as we tired.  Breathe, flutter, spit, gasp, relax. Relax was especially elusive.  Watch carefully in those few precious seconds when all came together in awesome synergy.  Diminish the fear bit by bit.  Absorb everything all at once.</span></p>
<p><span><span> </span>We were thankful the tour company sold a CD of pictures snapped during our trip along with fifty or so of their top photos of sea life taken over the years.  Yes, there are pictures of us in our short wet suits.  No, you will never see them.  Friends don’t let friends see pictures like that. </span></p>
<p><em>Note:  Except for the photo of the Great Barrier Reef, the photos in Great Barrier Reef blog were taken by C.E. Wilkins.  Thank you.</em></p>
<p><strong>For your trip to Pt. Douglas, here are</strong></p>
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<li><span><strong>Contacts we used:  </strong></span> <span>renting a house:  Ray White Reality (www.propertyportdouglas.com.au)</span> <span>snorkling trip to the Great Barrier Reef: Wavelength Reef Charters (<a href="http://www.wavelength.com.au"><span>www.wavelength.com.au</span></a>)</span> </li>
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<li><strong>Art we loved</strong>:  Cara Stevens collages: www.carastevens.com.au</li>
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<li><span>Take a light rain jacket/wind-breaker. (They are difficult to find in Pt. Douglas, given its tropical nature, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t get stormy and chilly.)</span> </li>
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<li><span>Rent a place with a kitchen.  Restaurants are pricy, booked, and underwhelming.</span> </li>
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<li><span>Take umbrellas.  You may be out and about when a tropical shower jams through.</span> </li>
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<li><span>Book restaurant tables ahead &#8212; way ahead &#8212; especially for a weekend.</span></li>
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<li> <span>Rent a car in Cairns so you can see the magnificant Daintree River (<a href="http://www.electricboatcuirses.com"><span>www.electricboatcuirses.com</span></a>)<span style="color:#0000ee;text-decoration:underline;"><img class="alignright" style="float:right;margin:6px;" src="http://buffhungerland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dscf2412_2.jpg?w=210&#038;h=270" alt="saltie" width="210" height="270" /></span> Photo on the right:  note the saltie &#8211; saltwater crocodile- on the banks of the Daintree at right.</span></li>
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<li><span>and walk the rainforest trail at Mossman Gorge (<a href="http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=163"><span>http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=163</span></a>). (below)</span></li>
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<li><span>The drive from Cairns is about an hour and a half, depending on the weather.</span> </li>
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<li><span>What we didn’t do, but was recommended by friends:  see The Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary: <a href="http://www.rainforesthabitat.com.au"><span>www.rainforesthabitat.com.au</span></a></span> </li>
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<li><span>Rent near town so you can walk both the esplanade and the town itself &#8212; all within 5-6 blocks.</span> </li>
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<li><span>Remember, Queensland does NOT have daylight savings time, unlike most of the rest of Australia. </span></li>
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<li><span>And throughout Australia, drink-driving (DUI) laws are strictly enforced.  </span></li>
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<p><img class="alignleft" style="float:left;margin:6px;" src="http://buffhungerland.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dscf2489.jpg?w=300&#038;h=400" alt="Mossman Gorge" width="300" height="400" /><br />
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<link>http://travelforlife.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/australien-die-ersten-vier-wochen/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Nach zwei Jahren Südamerika wollte ich mal was anderes&#8230;sehen, erleben. Nach Australien wollte ich immer schon mal, also entschied ich 2007 zusammen mit Yngrid für einige Zeit nach Australien zu gehen. Nach einer wunderbaren Zeit in Medellin, Kolumbien mit <a href="http://www.kiwitz.com" title="André">André</a>, gings im November zuerst nach Deutschland &#8211; ja, Weihnachten feiern und so&#8230;</p>
<p>Knapp zwei Monate danach, Ende Januar, gings dann los mit Destination &#8220;Down Under&#8221;.</p>
<p>Der Flug über Dubai nach Sydney kam mir gar nicht so lange vor, südamerikanisches Sitzfleisch (durch 20h Busabenteuer&#8230;) nehme ich an.</p>
<p><b>Sydney</b>: tolle Stadt, eine lebendige Metropole wie aus dem Bilderbuch. Wir waren zwar nur vier Tage dort, aber die hatten es in sich&#8230;<a href="http://www.australiaday.gov.au/pages/index.asp" title="AustraliaDay">AustraliaDay </a>(mit der wichtigste Feiertag für die stolzen Aussies), <a href="http://www.opera-australia.org.au/" title="Sydney Oper">Opernbesuch </a>(Carmen, und das in der Loge), Bondi Beach, Blue Mountains. Tolles, angenehmes Klima, nette und offene Menschen, tolles Essen&#8230;gutes Bier <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8230;Sydney &#8211; eine Weltstadt, die ihr unbedingt einmal besuchen müsst.</p>
<p>Nach dem Australia Day am 26. Januar ging es am darauf folgenden Sonntag mit <a href="http://www.virginblue.com.au/" title="Virgin Blue">Virgin Blue</a> nach <b>Cairns</b>. Meine Freunde aus Ensingen, Toby und Lisa holten uns netterweise gleich am Flughafen ab. Toby hat sich vor 2-3 Jahren als Mechaniker mit dem <a href="http://www.wvw.com.au/index.htm" title="VW Center Cairns">VW Center Cairns</a> selbsständig gemacht. Die ersten Tage verbrachten wir mit den beiden in ihrem neuen Haus. Montag war gleich mal Feiertag (sind wir wieder in Kolumbien? <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  den wir nutzten, um nach <a href="http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/?parkid=163" title="Mossman Gorge">Mossman Gorge</a> , einem Naturreservat inkl. Wildwasserfluß, zu fahren. Bereits die Anfahrt auf dem Cook Highway, einer wunderschöne Straße direkt am Pazifik entlang war einfach toll. Das Reservat selbst &#8211; Regenwald pur &#8211; Australien, das ist echtes Naturerlebnis. Beeindruckend auch die jugendlichen Aussies dort, ein 10 Meter Sprung vom nächstbesten Baum in den Fluss, mit obligatorischen Salto &#8211; kein Thema.</p>
<p>Nach den ersten Tagen bei Toby und Lisa zogen wir in unsere erste WG. Wie nicht anders zu erwarten trafen wir dort gleich mal, wie soll ich sagen, ausgehfreudige Australier, die uns die vielen Pubs und Clubs von Cairns &#8220;zeigten&#8221;. Typisch.</p>
<p>Da sich diese WG aber leider nach der ersten Woche wieder auflöste (unsere neuen Freunde mussten ausziehen, da Australier nur für bestimmte Zeit in diesen WGs wohnen dürfen), gingen auch wir ins nächste Haus, natürlich wieder von einigen Verrückten bewohnt. Mit diesen Herrschaften ging es letzte Woche dann nach <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Tribulation" title="Cape Tribulation">Cape Tribulation</a>.</p>
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