Winter is coming

Surfing in Byron Bay, enjoying Thai hospitality in Brisbane, sailing around the Whitsundays and finally learning to dive in Cairns – my last weeks in Australia have been quite intensive and left many impressions. I learned that it is still possible to enjoy a chicken wrap although being in a tiny sailing boat, making its way with 30 knots of wind on 3 meter waves, I was diving with reef sharks, sting rays and turtles during day and nighttime, at a birthday party I played the harmonica with the band and I learned about my future by a palm reading.

On Easter Sunday I then left for Queenstown, a tiny tourist town on the southern island of New Zealand. Stepping out of the plane, after an impressive approach through a valley, made me quickly realize that the next three month will be slightly colder than the comfortable 25-30 degree I experienced the last weeks on the cost of Australia. It felt a bit like coming home to Austria in autumn, with the leaves already changing color, the smell of wet grass and the sun on your face, which is already losing its strengths.