Dear all, hello my friends

now i am back home in munich, germany. i can tell you it just tastes so sweet!
even if its 0 degrees outside, snowing and a hell of a difference to summer in australia, i t  i s  m y  h o m e!! ;-) its like heaven to see all my friends and family and listen to my music! i just love it, so happy to be here!!!.....
well enough of my bitter-sweet feelings over here ;-)
i had a very good flight from sydney to dubai, something like 15 hours, not much to tell otherwise. arrived in dubai about 6 o´clock in the morning and had some trouble to catch my connecting flight. the city was covered in thick mist and the check-in computers were down. so all the flights were delayed and gate changes announced almost every 5 min. nevertheless i saw myself sitting in the plane to munich 4 hours later i was supposed to. i had the luxury of having 3 seats for myself, so one of my comfiest flights. i enjoyed the next 7 hours with movies, games and good food ;-)
altogether 30 hours after i left my apartment in bondi beach, i finally arrived at the munich airport and had a very warm welcome by my parents!!
now i just had breakfast watching the thick snowflakes outside my window dreaming a little of the nice time to come, helsinki, christmas, snowboarding in italy, new-years, finishing my studies....
thanx for being my guest, hope you enjoyed reading and watching my adventures in down under, even though i was a little lazy in the end ;-)

Dominik

our chopper R44 VT-ZTZ

take-off with my friend and boss Nils as our pilot

starting to feel the first two g-forces flying a tight turn

the main olympic "telstra stadium"

me with fancy radio control

approaching downtown

nice view from the western suburbs to the skyscrapers of sydney

the harbour bridge

you can walk to the top and back....

...but flying above is just much better!!!

the opera house next to the botanic garden 

at the centre of the picture is Circular Quay, main ferry station of sydney

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if you take a closer look you can see the shark net securing the swimming area

nice little privatly owned island, would'nt mind to stay there for a while!!

one of the northern beaches, sometimes very hard to access because of the steep cliffs

having a walk in darling harbour, sydney

same walk... ;-)

at the aquarium with huge fishes

a leopard shark approaching tia

and the biggest of all the white shark

me having a schweinerbraten and franziskaner weissbier at the loewenbraeukeler in downtown sydney. yeehaa!!!

On the countrylink on our way to byron bay (12 hours in the train!!)

At about 7am having a coffee waiting for the accomodations to open

The beach at byron bay

Having a walk in the area, little bit rainforest behind me

and a little rainforest behind tia

and some beautifull lonely beaches on our way

The most eastern point of the australian mainland

Dolphins riding the wave, spoted from the lighthouse

 

We also saw humpback whales. those pics are from the net though, taken at byron bay. we've got our own  pictures but they're not that good cause i only have a very weak zoom.

Once we did a day trip to the hinterland with our guide mr. i cant remember. he was very nice though!

Someone was little afraid of those crazy loud birds ;-)

as long as you've got some jam, they wont let you go!!

Visiting Heikki, had delicious pizza, prepared first in the microwave then fried in the pan!

on our way back, again at the train for 12 hours, this time celebrating our 3 year together!