Brissy

I arrived in Brisbane Sunday morning 5.30am. My lovely study mate and former colleague Anja studied in Brissy last year but fell in love with it and works there at the moment. I spend my first night at her place, we went swimming and to the Sunday markets in South Bank. Her boyfriend Jakob was there on holidays as well, so I wasn’t the only one being tourist.

The next couple of days I spend at the lovely Joey’s place (a friend of Nathan, who I met at a party in Melbourne). He’s apparently a pretty good cook so we had some nice dinners getting pissed in the weekdays (hey, who’s keeping track when they’re on holidays?). Poor Joey unfortunately had to work, but it’s not every day you have visitors from Scandinavia.

On Thursday I went on a little road/camping trip to Fraser island, which is the largest sand island in the world. For that reason Anja, Jakob and I rented a jeep, while two other couples (friends of Anja) brought their own 4WD.

Driving off road and in sand is much fun and doable if you know the technique, but since none of us tried it before, we got stuck a couple of times. After getting familiar with the cars and island we went around and saw some of the beautiful fresh water lakes with crystal clear water and the finest white sand.

You don’t wonna spend too much time swimming by the beach, because these waters are filled with one of the most aggressive type of sharks: tiger sharks. We see heaps from the lookout at Indian Head.

After a great weekend on the island I returned to Joeys place Sunday night, and the day after my lovely and missed wife arrived in Brisbane. Our wicked east coast adventure could finely begin.