My picture of Australian streets was definitely mislead. I thought it would be an endless monotonous strip of concrete through deserted landscapes. Well, that wasn´t the case so far. The environment so far (Sydney – north of Brisbane) has been as green as central Europe in summer (and here it will be all year!). The streets are decorated with reflectors in 3 colors in the middle, the rim and next to the street (looks quite colorful and distracting at night). In addition they are packed with street signs (also in multiple colors) of which many have a rather educational than informative nature. Instead of long straight roads, segmented by rare crossings, you jump from one multilane roundabout to the next (I learned here that most people indicate where the wanna go, when they enter the roundabout, and then not anymore. Since roundabouts are usually huge north of Brisbane, you therefore have no clue where cars are exiting. Strange system). Combined with driving on the left and constructions sites all over, the first day of driving (largely by night) was quite a challenge. But it is already getting better :D
Our main stop today was Noosa, an up market tourist destination of wealthy Brisbane visitors. Nice beaches, but not too interesting for us. We did some rainforest hiking, but it was mainly bush turkeys we encountered :D
The free camping site tonight was on the other side very scenic. A remote Australian Farm with a little café (nice for the mornings :D) Sleeping with open roof windows, covered by clear night sky full of sparkling stars. Definitely a plus in such campervans :D
22.03.2016
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