Getting stuck

Hoihoi,

I placed this part yesterday, so if you read it already you can skip it till the new part:

"Just a short update, since the internet is not that good. I left Perth last sunday (21st) and we've done quiet a bit of traveling since then. We visited a lot of places on the coast, Lancelin (sand boarding), Coral Bay (snorkeling with Manta's), Exmouth (Cape Range NP), Shark Bay (dolphin feeding) and more. All in all pretty good I'd say, especially the snorkeling trip in Coral Bay I really enjoyed. :D

Plan was to go to Karajini NP after that, but saturday things went wrong. Just an hour before reaching our sleeping place, I hit a cow while driving. And I can tell u, that does quiet a bit of damage. :S Need a new door, bullbar, some new plates and my emergency radio antenna is gone. Also something wrong with the allignment of the car, so we're pretty much stranded now in Karratha. Not much to do here. Went around this morning to check out the mechanics and garages. Not much luck, will take till next year and cost a lot of money since insurrance doesn't cover. So, seems that this road trip ended earlier than I hoped. :S But have to see tomorrow what the quote will be. Plan prob gonna be to have a service check and repair the allignment problem and then drive on till Broome or Cairns. Better chance there of quicker/cheaper fixing the problem or selling the car/my stuff.

Hopefully the others still stay with me till Broome, that way we can have nice little camping trip to the Kimberly's NP as a closure. :) Would be nice.

Well, that's about it. Hille is waiting for me to help with the tent, prob gonna storm tonight. :S See ya guys! Miss you a lot and maybe see ya soon!!
Bisbis

Ralfje"

What I wanna add is that we did some relaxing in the shopping mall today and hang around the pool. I can tell u, 40 degrees is too hot.. :S

I also have decided what I'll do. I have a check the day after tomorrow for the car, what hopefully will turn out in a green light so that I can travel again with it. That would mean I'll travel till Broome, where the girls will get of. And then, me and Timo will continue till Darwin (see scedule on bottum for more details). Here the repairs will simply too long and are too expensive. So, I might try it in Cairns or Darwin. If not, there is also better chance of selling the car.

Well, that was my update. Owyeah, also, i uploaded all my pics on facebook!!

See ya, bisbis
Ralf

PS. I was bit drunk yesterday, broke my not-drinking-till-new-year-vow and it was funny...I think...

My Trip
17/03/10 Flight from Dusseldorf
19/03/10 Arrival at Christchurch
26/03/10 Arrival at Mt Cook Village/Aokari
28/03/10 Arrival at Queenstown
02/04/10 Arrival at Dunedin
05/04/10 Queenstown
06/04/10 One day trip Millford Sounds
08/04/10 Wanaka
12/04/10 Franz Josef
16/04/10 Hokitika (glow worm caves)
17/04/10 Arthur's Pass
19/04/10 Christchurch
21/04/10 Flight to Sydney
04/05/10 Blue Mountains
07/05/10 Road trip Snowy Mountains - Gillsland - Melbourne
12/05/10 Melbourne
19/05/10 Roadtrip Great Ocean Road
21/05/10 Adelaide
27/06/10 Victor Harbor
28/06/10 Kangaroo Island
29/06/10 Mildura (working on Almond and grape farms)
16/08/10 Barossa Valley
17/08/10 Yorke Peninsula (Port Wakefield, Marion Bay, Innes NP, Port Pirie)
20/08/10 Port Augusta & Flinders Ranges NP
24/08/10 Eyre Peninsula (Whyalla, Coffin Bay, Port Lincoln, Lincoln NP, Streaky Bay)
30/08/10 Nullarbor crossing (Ceduna, Head of Bight whales, Norseman)
03/09/10 Esperance
04/09/10 Albany, Denmark, Pemberton (whales, giant tree forest and tree top walk, climing 75m tree)
06/09/10 Margaret River (wine tour)
08/09/10 Perth, Fremantle, Rottnest Island
21/11/10 Coral Coast (Kalbarri, Shark Bay, Coral Bay, Exmouth)
27/11/10 Car accident, hit a cow
28/11/10 Karratha (stuck, waiting for repairs)

Planning
02/12/10 Continue roadtrip BRoome
03/12/10 Broome
08/12/10 Kimberly's NP
11/12/10 Litchfield NP/Kakadu NP
14/12/10 Darwin
17/12/10 Cairns (Cape York?)*
20/12/10 Townsville*
24/09/10 Fraser Island*
27/12/10 Brisbane & east shore*
29/12/10 New Castle*
31/12/10 Sydney*
07/01/11 Alice Springs/Uluru**
10/01/11 2nd visit Adelaide (Chris) and Melbourne (Jack, Lisa, Patrick)**
14/01/11 NZ South Island**
20/01/11 NZ North Island**
31/01/11 Java, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodja**
01/04/11 Back in NL*

*Might be skipped due to broken car, selling car, no money
**Prob Skip since i have run out of money and therefore prob be home in jan.