The third year, and the third part, of our overlanding journey from Austria to Australia.
In the first part, we were driven from Austria all the way through Central Asia to the end of the "driveable" world, Vladivostok.
In the second part, our journey led us from Vladivostok via South Korea to Japan, moving on to Borneo and Brunei until we spent a few incredible, shocking, scary, marvelous, and surprising months in Indonesia.
This is our story in pictures from our third year, driving around Australia and following the sun.
Stay tuned for the next part!
Entering Australia with our truck was one of the greatest challenges we had to face on our whole journey yet. It took us about one month to clean our truck properly due to quarantine regulations
But we made it and arrived in Melbourne
Before exploring the mainland we wanted to discover the beautiful island of Tasmania
It has an incredible shoreline
Mountains
And epic sunrises
What a view!
Back on mainland along the Great Ocean Road
And off to the Grampians for some climbing
Through the Flinders Ranges up north
Into the heart of the red continent
The famous monolith in the center of Australia called Uluru
One thing for sure, the flies in Australia are the worst
But no better place to see the milky way as clear as on the southern hemisphere
Unfortunately we haven´t seen lots of them
But we have seen looots of them!
Go remote and Australia is a perfect adventure playground
With an insanely beautiful landscape
And the clearest rockpools you can imagine
The longer and further we are travelling, the more we experience how everything on this planet is connected. The land, the sea, the air, the animals and the people
Although this sounds trivial, but the western, industrialized world is loosing their inner connection to the environment and still puts economy above nature. Our planet is a living organism and its heart is the ocean
If the ocean dies, we all die - Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd
No one will protect what they don´t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced - David Attenborough
It is all about the experience
And education
We are trying to raise and educate our child the best way we can
To bring him closer to nature and
Sharpen his awareness for our planet and everything that lives on it
Will we succeed?
We don´t know but for us the only way to change the current flow of life is, To raise a new, more conscious living generation
A more sustainable and less destructive one, who is riding on a different road than we currently do
Otherwise we might head into a dark future
Changing the perspective of what life is all about might bring light into the world
We know we are not perfect and probably nobody is
But we are trying to be a part of the solution, rather than being a part of the problem
