Travelog for: dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

My Murph friend is here and visits me. Time for a party- it was called a Halloween-Party. We celebrate it now, because we won’t be at home at Halloween. Wow – a basket full of sweets.

   

This was our place for this evening. Nice flowers, great confetti and sweets!





Yummy and scary sweets!



We all found something nice.



We chose a funny mouth.



Then Kleine Fee showed us a game. Well it looked like chocolate.



Before Kleine Fee explained the rules, I played with the funny eyes.



We had to play a memory game. There were 5 different pairs.



This looked difficult – we cannot see the images on the front anymore.



I tried it – no pair – bad luck.



After 10 rounds I found one pair - and I didn’t won.



Well – Kleine Fee told us, that it was an easy game, because we could have looked at the different colors.  I think that she is very intelligent, no one of us 4 players had that idea!

Let’s change the Topic…..What was this?



It was getting darker.



Wow – a big pumpkin!



There were other great shadow-creatures.

A big ghost – but I was brave!



It came near to me! This was funny!



It was funny – a shadow of Stoker.



It was a wonderful party!



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

I am on my way to Australia. We fly with an A380 – I always wanted to try this plane. My best friend Murph came with me – and we explored the seat.



Well – a wing – and clouds – not that interesting.



Wow – an own minibar for me. I took some drinks out of it. The sandwich and the little cake were very yummy!



There was enough place for both of us on the seat – and we got a mattress for the night.



Perth in Sight – we will be there soon.



But first we got another refreshment – we won’t start hungry in Australia.



I preferred the chocolates.





Yours
Dicker Kumpel

G'Day from Australia,

We arrived in our apartment and had a good first night. So we were well-rested and ready to explore Fremantle. We went to the beautiful old railway-station by bus.



Then we walked along the docks.



They care of the wild fishes here – you should put your fishing lines and tackles here.



In the Past many immigrants came to Australia – I think, these two belonged to them.



There exist Welcome Walls with the names of the immigrants - when they came and the ship’s name.





This man designed the port.



Then we walked through the city of Fremantle.



The Round House is the oldest existing house in Western Australia. Under is you see the entrance to a short tunnel.



The Round House.



The view of the Indian Ocean was so beautiful.



We both liked this funny ship.



Do you imagine the tunnel? This was the other side of it.



The beach was beautiful, but it was too windy for swimming.



Another beautiful building – in the Past petroleum was stored there – today it is an arts house.



A monument for Vasco da Gama.



A beautiful hotel.



Then the scary part of the day started. The prison of Fremantle. RikeH told us that nasty ToyVoyagers have to stay in it.



Murph and I bought tickets for us – we were sure that you are allowed to leave, when you buy a ticket.   



Well – it didn’t looked too bad – green lawn and a beautiful house.



Oups, this side looked worse.



And we didn’t like this building.



Oh – what an awful cell. I was soooooo nice in the last time – no need to leave me here.


Look, there were many floors. The net was fixed to prevent prisoners to murder themselves or the other prisoners.



This looked peaceful – the church.



In the older days the prisoners had hammocks instead of beds.



There exists two cells, where artists lived in and where allowed to paint at the walls.





Luckily I was allowed to leave the prison. I had to celebrate it with this yummy and healthy food.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

We went to an Island today - look, the ferry.



When we arrived on the Island, we took a Hop-on-Hop-off-Bus to Parker Point. The water looked like the Caribbean.



This part looked wonderful.



I went down so many stairs to the beach.



Can you see us?



It was so beautiful here.







Maybe I should do a holiday on the beach – but I don’t like water.



We walked to Little Salmon Bay. Funnily they have a kind of path for snorkeler in the ocean. With number under the water.



It was nice here, too.



I wanted to meet Quokkas here – this was the first one.



Surely they had a lighthouse on the highest point of the Island.



Our last stop was West End.

There were many New Zealand Fur Seals in the water.



They were funny and sportive.






A few hundred meters away is the Cape Vlamingh.  Really beautiful.





The Fish Hook Bay was great, too.



A rock with a hole – it will be a blow hole when it is stormy.


We were ready with the bus tour – and started a Quokka Walk with a friendly old man. He told us something about the animals – and much more about trees, history and so on.

Quokkas love the fruits of this tree.



Look, there were some for a late lunch or an early dinner.



These lakes on the Island were interesting. They have a 6-9times higher saltiness as the ocean around the Island.



Hey – a very tall palm tree.



And another funny palm tree. RikeH was a little awkward in taking this photo. Otherwise you could see, how it grew. Let’s show a photo of GustavHH. It was better.





Then we met Quokkas again.





We were ready to go back to Fremantle, but the ferry was not here. Time for some photos of Thomson Bay.







The tour back to the mainland was funny – and very bumpy.

Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

We stopped at this colorful lake on our way to Hyden.



There were works of art.



And there were many flies.



We continued our trip to the biggest attraction in this region. On the path I saw a lizard.



Behind me you see the famous Wave Rock.



The colors and the forms are wonderful.



All the humans wore funny hats with fly-nets.



Then we started a walk along the rock.



I really liked it.



32 Degrees were very hot.



This rock is called Hippo’s Yawn.



I was so brave and went into it. The view from here was beautiful.



Some blooming flowers – it is springtime here.



The trees look different, but I like it.



A last stop at the Wave Rock.





Love
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Today we drove all day. At least we TVs felt bored and got on RikeH’s nerves. So we stopped in Coolgardie and visited a nice small outdoor museum. Ben Prior found many old things in and around the town and showed it here.

Funnily there was a camel.



But there were many old machines.



Look, there was a lot to see.



We had no idea, what this machine was for – but this didn’t matter to us.



Surely gold was washed in this machine.



This must have been a great time!







I really loved it here.



There was a museum on the other side of the street, but we didn’t wanted to go into it.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

It was time to see the red earth of Australia. We took a guided tour and were 4 human guests, the guide and we TVs, enough space for all of us in the car.

Our first stop was Broad Arrow – you can see a water tower behind me.



There was a pub – the Australian people leave the town to have a drink in the outback. Really strange.



I looked at the map – where we will be today.



Then we arrived in Menzies – a small village. But it had a nice tour with funny sculptures. Can you see us on the camel?



This was the typical landscape here.



Look, some nice old machines.





The townhall of Menzies.



This side looked great – with a photo of the people in the Past.



This was the bakery.



I liked the beautiful flowers.





Wow – a cool motorbike – I had a great ride on it.



This was our goal of the day – the Lake Ballard with 51 statues- we are so curious.



I had a great seat in the car.



This looked adventurous.



Then we arrived at the Lake Ballard – a salt lake with a small hill in it.



There were 51 of these art works all over the lake. They should show people out of the region – only smaller and a little different to their normal appearance.



We shouldn’t have go here, when there would have been rain in the last days.



It looked great!



I had a nice view from here.



This was exciting – and this was the landscape next to the lake.



We stopped in this pub on our way back to Kalgoorlie. Maybe you have to do this on an Australian tour…we had lemon lemonade.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Kalgoorlie is a great town. Gold was first discovered in 1893 here. Today they still produces gold here – and today we will visit the Super Pit.

There are 40 mining trucks on site – and they are very big and dangerous. This show that we should stay inside the bus…



Look, they produce gold there.



Very big machines – unfortunately one of it burnt.



Let’s go to the gold. There is an open pit and an underground mine – we will only visit the open pit.



Two full trucks! They are full of stone – not full of gold.



This was the first lookout. Great – the pit is 600 m deep.



1,5 km across, 3,5 km long. The small point down there are big trucks.






The view from the next stop was similar.



I saw trucks driving up and down.


   
This was our tour bus.



The humans had to wear these glasses when they leave the bus.



We saw more trucks driving around.





Then we went to the mill – the first station in taking the gold out of the rocks. They bring the rocks in here – and put it in smaller pieces.







It was a great day in the Pit!



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Is it Christmas now? Not yet, but it was strange to see this Christmas tree and have 40 degrees…



No idea, who this girl was, but sehr had a great place in the heat.



This roof was gilded with gold from the Super pit.



One of the hotels here.



This was Paddy Hannan, one of the three men who found the first gold in this region.



A view over the main street…



…and the town hall.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

After 4 days in the heat, we were ready to leave Kalgoorlie. On the way to Esperance we stopped at a view point and saw the beautiful salt lake – Lake Lefroy.



This was our car.



The lake looked beautiful – and I liked the scrubs.





We drank a delicious Ginger-Ale.



We visited a museum village in Esperance – but there were only old houses with stores in it.





We thought that this was a church.



Water lilies are so beautiful.



This should be art, I think.



Look a beach in the town.



I loved the whale fin!



Surely palm trees belong to a holiday in the South.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Today we will do the Great Ocean Drive. But first we stopped at the Rotary Lookout. Nice – we will go there soon.





And we come from this direction. Yesterday we walked along this beach.



I learnt the names of the islands.



This was the first beach - the West Beach.





The Path to Blue Haven was very steep.



So we decided to drive to the Salmon beach. The way from the parking lot to the beach was shorter there.


What is more important? My wonderful coat or the background. The camera knew the correct answer.



This beach should be one of the most beautiful beaches of Australia. The Twilight Beach was  Australia’s best beach in 2006.





In my opinion this was because of the rocks in front of it.



On my way to the car I saw some nice flowers.







Next stop: Observatory Point. I loved the rocks with the waves.





Oups – we have to climb up there.



This was the view to the Nine Mile Beach…



…and into the other direction.



The last stop was the Ten Mile Lagoon. Rocks create a lagoon here. Normally the water is quiet here.



Back in Esperance we walked along the promenade.



We learned about the hunting methods of the Aborigines.



Next to the beach there was a Port with big ships.



In the Past people drove with horses to the beach.



This was Sammy the Seal.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

We are in the small town Albany, behind me you can see the university.



There were some nice old Victorian buildings.





The rose garden was beautiful.



Look, the entertainment centre looked like a ship. And behind it you can see a cruise ship.



This was the St John’s Church.



And this was the town hall – it looked like a church.





They had funny plants in the town.



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

We drove to the Torndirrup Nationalpark. First we stopped for the view over Albany.



This viewing point is called The Gap. Oh – they build an exciting platform there.



I was so brave – it was high about the sea level.



We were able to look through the platform.



Beautiful!





This was a Natural Bridge.



We had a great view from here.



And we learnt a lot about different kind of rocks.



These rocks were nice – I had to think of the Bay of Fire, when I saw the red color.



From the Jimmy Newhills Lookout I saw the ‚secret‘ haven.



This plant was great!



There was a round way on the Stony hill. This plant next to me was funny and very tall. The rocks on the hill looked beautiful!



And we had a far view.





Can you see the small people on the rock?



We were on the left side during the last hours – now we will drive to the right side.



I am on the beach yet.







It was a great day in the National Park!



Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Today it was time for a test of courage. But first we saw this work of art.



They had very old and tall trees here.



A Tree Top Walk – what should this be? I learnt about it on this sign. Fortunately I am not afraid of height.



This was our way -  let’s start.





This couldn’t shock a brave bunny!



Although it was very high!





It became still higher…





There was the highest point.



Look – I was 40 meters high, but some of the tree were more than 70 meters tall.





This was fun!



Then we continued on the Ancient Empire boardwalk. You came close to the trees here. And they explain, that you have to walk carefull – and don’t step on the tree’s toes.



This tree is called Grandma’s Grumble – you can see her face in the tree.



The trees have holes in it.



Some were really huge.



I could stand in it.



They survive fires and still live.





Hey, something for BIne and Holgi.



There were other plants here.



Sadly some fallen trees, too.







At the end we found some mushrooms…



…and giant foresters.





Yours
Dicker Kumpel

Hello friends,

Our holiday house war wonderful. The house is called Hansel. And you can see the house Gretel behind it.



It really looked beautiful!



This was our living-room…



…and the bedroom with a large bath tub.



We met this friendly Ringsittich on the balcony.







And look – kangaroos walked next to our house.



Murph stayed at home this day – and prepared everything for Stoker’s birthday party. Al least he told, that he did it…



When we came back, there were two couches waiting for us – and we talked a lot.







Then we went to the nicest views with our flying couches.







When it was getting dark, we went to the fireplace.



The evening ended with a yummy bottle Bundaberg, the famous Tim Tam cakes and surely chips.



yours Dicker Kumpel