On Thursday Nik and I hit the road again to discover the neverending distances of the Northern Terra Australis. We cought the pretty strong westerly winds on the journey up north at the Hangover Bay before we stayed our first night at the Pinnacles close to Cervantes. At least four meter high stones which look awesome in the yellow sand. Especially, when the sun sets, it´s lovely. The following day we were chased by our ol´ body the rain to go more north. We made a little stop at Dongara where I have already been once when the Kitestock Event in February was. This time we were just the three of us and the wind was again a bit to less. Nevertheless, good fun. The last days we spent on reading books or through the bait in the ocean. Today we´re heading up further north again to have a look in Geraldton and to see Coronation Beach, which is the so called windiest place in Australia. Hopefully, we have luck and get some good winds.
Stay tuned.

After a couple of days full with rain, wetness and grey sky, we wanna see coloured motion pictures. We´ve driven from the little cute village Denmark (2.400) to the next bigger town Albany (24.000) and getting warm in a small comfortable cinema hall. It´s being shown American glimmerrock in shape of Iron Man.
You can still recognize the shock the city has because of the shark attack and the main beach Middelton Beach, where it happened, is still closed. They have been trying to chase the sharks out of the bay to the ocean, but concerning to the bad weather, they´ve stopped it for a while. Further we get to know that the sharks were chasing a group of dolphins, since of them was ill. Well, by now does nobody know where the sharks are.
The day after, strong westerly winds were shaking and knocking at our bus when we got up. We´ve found an excellent flatwater spot and we´ve been sick of hanging around without wind in the rain for days and we just wanna feel the salty taste of freedom in our faces again. Does an Australian shark like Germans? And after all, a kiteboarder doesn´t look like a swimmer and we are not planning to go in the water at 7.30am. Nevertheless, we´ve decided to go to the police to get more information. They wanted us to go the Department of Fisheries because they are in authority for that. They are looking pretty weird, when we asked, but get the information that nobody knows where the sharks are at the moment and that there are sharks anyway. We can do what we want, but “It´s on your own risk.”
Well, we´re going to the bay. The wind is gusty but the water is nearly everywhere just hip deep. I have to wear the good old winter wetsuit and it reminds me of the good old Baltic Sea. You could have seen our smile through our long beards for the next two hours.
We´ve decided again to go to the social welfare in shape of the local cinema to get dry. This time it´s shown an Australian movie called Cactus and we are happy to understand nearly every insider joke like (God drives a Holden) and reward ourselves with fastfood.
By now we have been thinking about heading north and escape from the rainy south. We are back in Denmark for another day to catch some waves. I love that bay. But in the end it is too wet and we´re going. To get the van complete dry again is not only good for him. So we are back in sunny Perth for a couple of days to recharge our electronic devices and wash clothes.
To quote Nik: All that glitters is not wicked. But it belongs to our adventure package we have booked.
In a couple of days the caravan will go up north. It is supposed to be windy and sunny there. We are excited.
On this note, look forward to the Nordic Adventures.

Addendum: While I was surfing on the internet, I found more information about the sharks. They are still in the bay.

After having packed the Van, Nik and I hit the road down south. A short visit in Safety Bay and Secret Harbour let us be sure that there´s really no wind as well, waves are spectacular and we can drive all the way to Margaret River.
Of course, did we see the awesome sights like the Jetty of Busselton and the southern Meat Pies. Eventually we set up our first sleeping spot westerly of Dungsborough at a bay called Eagle Bay. As there was no wind, we decided to walk the a bit of the coastline by feet and had to confess, that waves look beautiful and we have to buy some surfboards. Yahoo, was our shop we trust in and from now on we are proud owners of two vintage surfboards.
We went straight into the water of Margaret River and have admit that these waves are just too big and massive for some greenhorns. My head was shaked a bit too hard so that´s why I was hanging arround a bit weird. And as darkness and silence is the best in such a situations, we had a look for some caves that can be very massive and astonishing. Coming back to daylight we drove further south still on the search for wind. The only thing that we found was the rain. A new masterplan had to be done. We decided to hide under the lush forrests of Walepole. Those trees can achieve a height of 60m and you can do a ein Tree Top Walk. Really breath taking. At least now we have to see, that the main saison is over and lots of pensioneers take the chance to go with their massive camper vans on tour.
It´s day 10 of our trip and we´ve reached the perfect wavespot. We are in Denmark / Ocean Beach and the nature looks a bit like Norway or Ireland. Especially the rain let the green on the rough costline look even more green and shining.
After wind knocked at our van today in the morning, we went down like thursty calves to the waterhole which is just toe deep and we tried our best. But the wind seemed to had read the forecast and recognized that it was not supposed to be there. As it, we decided to go again and we grabed our surfboards and jumped into the surf. It´s so much fun and we can say that we do the sport now more and more on purpose and catch a couple of waves. At least the group of the surf students which are only 6 or 7 years old riding next to us and get every wave awaked our ambitions. We came with a huge smile from the water which disappeared, when another guy told us about the yesterday´s shark attack. Another surfer were bitten in the leg just a bay next to us but could survive the attack. It was a 5m long white pointer. Sharks are just everywhere. Gonna see if he is on a journey as we are, or if he stays a bit longer here.
Well, we have to go and wax or boards again to have no more excuses.

Btw: who wants to read how Nik´s been seeing the trip has just have to click here.