Buandik Campground

Just after uploading our last blog update, we met up again with Manu and Marie. We had seperated in Canberra, as they wanted to drive the Great Ocean Road, while we were psyched for the Grampians bouldering and hurried down through the inland. We did buy a lot of groceries, since the climbing area is …

Grampians

We’re just back to civilisation from the Grampians National Park. The closest town is Horsham which is about a hour drive away. 70km on a paved road plus 10km on a really bad dirtroad. On the campground where all the climbers stay there are restrooms, a rainwatertank and fireplaces, but that’s it. You can’t grab …

Blue Mountains, Sydney and Canberra

We finished our time in the Blue Mountains with some nice last climbs up to 27. I was able to Flash „Wrong Movement“, 27 while Jochen had big success on his longterm project „Alpa Leather“, 32. He had tried it a lot on his last trip to the Blue Mountains about seven years ago, and …

Canberra

Nach ein paar wenigen Tagen in den Blue Mountains ging es wieder zurück nach Sydney. Boulden ist doch so viel einfacher. Wir wollten uns noch die südlichen Bouldergebiete anschauen und dort auf Manu und Marie treffen, die gerade frisch aus Deutschland eingeflogen sind und sich ebenfalls einen Van gekauft haben. In der Wing Cave konnte …

Sydney

The trip to Sydney was awesome! We had a beautiful and cool climbing day in The Balkans, one of Sydney’s bigger and older Bouldering Areas. We met up with our friends Steve, Joe and their daugther Tara, which we had met a few weeks ago in the Blue Mountains. I had visited this area 5 …

Sydney

Nachdem Jochen, Miri und Paula wieder zu uns gestoßen waren und unser Auto fertig repariert war konnte ich endlich „Tricks Roughly“, 26 klettern. Axel ist ein paarmal am letzten Zug von „August 1914“, 29 geflogen und knapp an einem Flash von „White Linen“, 27 gescheitert. „August 1914“, 29, Centennial Glen, Blue Mountains Für mich werden …

Blue Mountains

A few days ago Jochen, Miri and Paula arrived in Blackheath. Hey had flewn into Sydney on April 24th and spend a couple days in Sydney in search for a van as well. After final success they are proud owners of a Kia Pregio, 2004, 270000km with was a little cheaper then ours but in …

Australien

Am Flughafen von Auckland, musste Axel unser ganzes Gepäck drei mal umpacken, da die Emirates Airlines im Gegensatz zum ersten Flug nicht bereit waren 16kg Übergepäck umsonst zu transportieren. So konnten wir leider nicht mit leerem Handgepäck fliegen, mussten unsere dicken Daunenjacken anziehen und ein wenig mit dem Sperrgepäck tricksen. Zu Gast bei Eddie Fowkie …

Australia

The next morning we took another bus to Sydney Central Station where we had an appointment for buying a van. At around 12am we were owners of a Mazda E2000, the same car we already owned in New Zealand, only 10 years younger and 100.000km less driven. In general the car was well maintained and …

Business with vans

Selling a car at the end of the backpackers season in New Zealand is no fun! We were quiet dissapointed by the Auckland Backpackers Carmarket. We expected a place, just like the Backpackers Car Market in Christchurch: A place were you can park for a couple of days and try to sell your vehicel to …