Ok, I am finally getting around to posting an entry on my blog.. about hmm... 1 month too late?. I am not even in Australia anymore. Hell, I am not even on the destination I went to after I went to after Australia anymore. Hell, I am actually already about to leave the destination that I left for after the destination I went to after I left Australia. Still with me?. Nice.

But let's keep chronological order for the sake of my own sanity.

So.. let's recap. Australia. If the Australian Tourism Office asked me to come up with a slogan for a "Come visit Australia" campaign, I´d go with: "Australia... just like America.. but on the left side of the road". Seriously, apart from the fact that your fresh-off-the-boat status is given away by the fact that you always look to the wrong side of the road when crossing the street, you could have just gone to Miami Beach and saved yourself the trans-oceanic ticket. We explored the fabled East Coast.. from Sydney to Cairns, Bondi Beach, Newcastle, Port McQuarie, The Gold Coast (with such fabled surfbreaks as Superbanks, D'Bah, Snapper Rocks, etc).. Brisbane, Noosa Heads. At that point it was clear this trip was doing very little for us other than driving us into the red faster than you can say Obama. So, we pulled the emergency abort lever, shorted the east coast by flying into Cairns from Brisbane, doing some amazing scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef and called it a day. Changed our flight dates and got the hell out of there, destination.. Indonesia!. More on that later.

So, bottomline.. what I am trying to say?. That it sucked?. Well, no, not really. It is not that it sucks. It is that .. well.. there is just not anything amazing about it. The waves?. Sure, there are *some* waves sometimes. Mostly wind swell. In fact, most of the time, I could have been out there on a wave board and a 5.0 having a hell of a better time rather than trying to out-paddle 40 surfers competing for one tiny wind blown peak. So I guess this time I picked the wrong sport. Should have brought some sails :-( .. but travelling with just your surfboard is just unbeatable.

Oz is relatively expensive. First world prices.. so when you think.. hey!.. I am spending over $100 a day to fight 50 guys knuckling it off over a 1 meter piece of windchop.. hmm... screw this. Let's go to Indo and check it out!. So, that is what we ended up doing. 

Some reader, probably an Australian local, is likely to post a comment telling me how clueless I am. Likely. Perhaps it was just not the right time of the year.. ok.. maybe. But then donning a wetsuit in April or later when I could be surfing glassy Indian Ocean perfection wearing nothing but a Banana Hammock, all for $20 / day?.. Unless you already live in Oz, it baffles me why somebody would actually go there as a visitor to surf. There just are cheaper and better places. But I guess.. well.. you just gotta go see the Kangaroos at least once in a lifetime right?. 

Oh, und wenn du Deutsche bist.. man, vergiss es. Du könntest mal zu hause bleiben.. ich habe mehr Deutsch gesprochen  in Australien wie in Deutschland :-)

If you definitely need to check out the east coast.. well, I'd go to Noosa Heads. That is where I had the most fun in Oz. End of my Oz report. Sorry.. Oz, at least the East Coast, gets a "overrated" in my crank-o-meter. 

Coming up next.. Bali Report. That one is only hmm.. bout 1 week too late. Stay tuned!.