The past 5 days have been quite busy and we have experienced so many new things that it's difficult to decide what should I write about first. Well, Anna and I joined a website called Workaway where you can find a job that'll offer you accommodation and meals but no salary. We thought it would be a nice way to get to know Australians, the local culture and at the same time improve our English. That's how we ended up at Sunshine Coast in a city called Landsborough. We help in the garden and last week we helped to organize a 21st birthday party. 21st is a big thing in Australia, usually arranged by the parents. We felt like we were arranging a wedding. 50 guests had been invited and it took several days to get the venue and all the snacks ready. Why don't we have parties like that in Finland?
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| Well that's something worth celebrating-- |
This afternoon we went sight-seeing. We visited Maleny hippie town and Monteville, which reminded us of an alpine village. The landscape here is just amazing, breathtaking and wonderful. Both the villages we visited were relatively small but they had all kind of shops selling anything from ceramics to textiles and the writer could easily spend an entire day there, wandering from one shop to another.
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| Somewhere there is the Pacific Ocean |
In this area you can see the peculiar looking Glass House Mountains. The mountains are actually the "cores" of the volcanoes, the molten lava cooled inside the them. The nature here is spectacular, evergreen plants, sunshine and beaches. You can spot dolphins and whales during your morning walk on the beach but unfortunately we haven't been that lucky yet. Today we saw kangaroos and their joeys near the University of Sunshine Coast and I think I saw a fruit bat fly past my window. It's a pity that of not all the exotic animals are that nice. In the canal behind the house there are bull sharks, so it is possible to become their midnight feast by tripping on the jetty and falling into the canal. I'm sure they are aware of that, too. In every possible corner there's a disgusting spider spinning its even more disgusting web to catch poor unsuspecting flies. Life would be so much easier without them. What would happen to the ecosystem if all the spiders just disappeared? And one more fact about the terrible nature. Here in Australia they have built specific bridges for opossums so they can cross the roads safely. Or that was the master plan. But guess what? Foxes are clever and they've noticed that it pays off to wait at the end of the bridge. It's like a drive in MacDonalds for them!
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| Glass House Mountains |
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| A kangaroo and a kangaroo's child |
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