Back in Australia

I'm back to Queensland. My car was still there waiting for me where I'd parked it in a safe neighbourhood, and I was relieved. On Monday, Cori flew back to Adelaide, to her boyfriend, and I started to look for work in the Brisbane and Sunshine Coast area.

That was a frustating task and I had nearly given it up, but just now it looks as if I found something: it's not work for money but for board and lodging on a farm. This kind of thing is popular among young travellers in Australia and it's called wwoofing.

So from Saturday I will have a one-week wwoofing placement in a dairy farm, in a town called Gympie! I'm already in this area now, so I'll hang around here until then. At the moment the weather is good here, sunny and warm. The photos I just added were taken in Tin Can Bay and at the Carlo Sandblow in Rainbow Beach.

That sandblow is a place at the coast where the wind has blown great masses of sand from the beach inland, for hundreds or thousands of years, so that all the vegetation was buried and the area became one giant sandbox, like a mini-desert.