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Over the next few days I will be posting pictures I took with my mobile while being at work. Well, more on the way to and from work in a valley close to Omarama in New Zealand. The quality of the images will not be what you are used to, but it gets so dusty there that I don”t want to ruin my good camera. I think you can still see the beauty of the area. I”m working in a place where they could have filmed The Lord Of The Rings and I’m loving it…

Continuing on from my last post, Frisbee Golf is another activity in Queenstown that is cheap and fun. All you need is a Frisbee, so either buy one (around 12$), steal one or borrow one. Many hostels have plastic plates, they’ll work alright. Make sure to remove all food scraps for best aerodynamic performance. Every player needs his or her own Frisbee. Then just play the 18-hole-course in the Queenstown Gardens. All the rules are displayed at the first Tee close to the entrance of the park. If you have a bit more to spend, then get some booze and drink a shot after every hole. It gets very messy and very funny within a very short amount of time…

Here come my most favorite images that have made it onto my blog so far. Come back from time to time as the list grows longer as I add new photos to the site. Enjoy!

Lake Wabby

Turquoise lake

12 Apostel

Lamafa

Girl

Nice view!

Whitsundays

Sunset

Water buffalo

Windmill

Kinabalu

Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish

Moheno Wreck

Street

Crab

Komodo dragon

Champange pools

Lizard

Footprints

Hatta

Lighthouse

Flag

Kids

Scorpionfish

Scenic

Summit

Angkor Wat

Flower

12 Apostel

Rinca

Kids

Let me know which of my photos your favorites are! Head on over to my galleries, browse through my photos and leave a comment!

To all of you a Happy New Year!

I haven’t been doing a lot really since I arrived here in New Zealand. It’s slowly sinking in that I actually do have to find a job now, so I’m just bumming about for as long as I can…Opened up a bank account, applied for a tax number and got my CV up to date, ready to send to those millions of dive shops here. Decided, though, that I will wait with applications until I receive that tax thingy. I spend my days watching people play chess in the town square and lazing about in the botanic gardens, which is really nice, but every morning I wake up to this horrible view, so I decided to prettify the whole thing a bit! What do you think?

Today I was indulging in my favorite pastime when arriving in a new place, which is getting lost while walking aimlessly around looking at things! I just flew into Christchurch, by the way. Anyway, so I was walking down this street and I saw something which I found really funny (maybe it’s just me, though?) and I had to take a picture of it! It kind of reminds me of walking down a street somewhere in Asia. Quite charming, really! Do you think it’s funny as well?

Just walked down to the internet cafe and for once I was fast enough in drawing my camera and getting a shot…

Yesterday I rented a car together with two friends and we went on a roadtrip down the Great Ocean Road. A convertible would have been awesome, but due to money matters and, thank god, unavailability (sometimes I can be so easily persuaded to spend money on completely useless stuff) we had to settle for a tiny japanese car. It was still brilliant. We couldn’t have asked for better weather and I just loved the 12 Apostles, although I only counted eight, but who cares, really?

Bandas underwater world is just unbelievably stunning. The coral is still intact and there are fish everywhere. Among other marine life you can see sharks and turtles, great barraccuda, dog tooth tuna, clown triggerfish, squid and napoleon wrasses while just snorkling. The walls, that start just a few meters off the beaches are so deep you can’t see the bottom, not even when you have 50 m visibility and freedive down to 25 m! Diving must be awesome there!! While I was there the one dive school on the islands was closed due to ramadan. No guides would go in the water, cause obviously you will get little amounts of water into your mouth and that counts as drinking! Just one more reason to go back to those charming islands…

Recently I had the chance to go back to Komodo Island and see the dragons again. They are really unbelievable. It’s kind of like Jurassic Park in real life! While we only saw two dragons on Komodo we saw at least 15 the next day on Rinca!