Australian Adventure

One of the most joyful experiences from Australia I certainly has was our (mine and Luiza's) spontaneous trip to the beach.... somewhere in the south of Victorian state. As Luiza is a lovely beach addict and always craves for a beach, she made a research on this subject and found a few places. Until the last moment of jumping into train, we were undecided, but we chose apparently the one known as the most beautiful in the area, which was 3 hours away from Melbourne! (Great Ocean Road)....
The train and then bus were both overcrowded with young people, so we wondered, what was the cause? As we later discovered, by talking to a nice guy picnicing alone on the grass close to the bus stop, everybody was heading to Falls New Year's Festival. He was the one, who inspired us to act as we did.
It wasn't his first time there, so he was able to give us sufficient information.
It was the biggest music festival in the whole Australia, foreseen for 15000 people, just in the middle of the Australian bush.



Yes we were excited and ready for an adventure!



On our way there, tt was so funny, because we kept on meeting and losing different people in the bush, who were heading to the same place..we have been secretly helping each other by listening together to the sounds of the bush and then estimating the direction and showing it with a hand... only sometimes everybody had different opinion... time was passing by, we lost 'the way' few times, getting more and more scratched by all kinds of grasses and branches,...'cool' to wear a beach skirt.... hmm....nature..., crossing small rivers, walking under gigantic 'jurassic' polypodies, or just meeting wild wallabies...
In the moment we had had enough, we met a group of 7 or 10 guys, smiles came back....they helped us, but we lost them again....anyway it didn't take much longer to get there...I only say normally it takes about 1.5 hours to make this trip – we needed 3.5 hours.....

***

One amazing thing happened after another...once you start off....We got out of the bush with no real plan – we didn't have a tent, or sleeping bag, or warm clothes, what we realized at the sunset, as it got chilly.....let's just walk, walking is good :-) and then by crossing one of the huge parking areas, accidentally we met the group of the guys we had met in the bush and ...well they adopted us....They had their own camp with a huge group of their friends, brothers, sisters, cousins, living partly in vans, or tents – all from a small city two hours south of Sydney. Our new family... next to our new house which was a VW van...

***

The festival was just GREAT!!! During the day it had a relaxed atmosphere, and the evenings were little bit wilder with more shiny stars (than these millions on the sky).


The best thing about this place in the middle of bush were the people.
Everybody was so normal, so relaxed and friendly. You could start a conversation just like that with anybody, or just join any group of people and party with them together. Some of them were organizing collectives, like for example, Jack, who was inviting random passers-by to chillout under his blankets in the middle of a side road... And some people were recognizing us already as 'the two foreign girls from the bush' and were inviting us to their group of friends... amazing isn't it? The festival had this pleasant little bit of a hippie touch not only because of the atmosphere, but because of really good food as well. There were many stands all with super healthy and organic, great tasting food, but my favourite was the fresh pressed juice bar with a nice chill out lounge. The only difference was that the mixers were powered by a man on a bicycle:-)



So you sure want to ask me if it was worth all of the scratches to get there?
YEEEESSSS!!!! Only we could not stay until the end of festival as we were supposed to spend NYE in Melbourne at a Felix da House Cat party....
Work is work.... :-) Keep on rocking !!!