It’s been an extremely busy weekend so I couldn’t spare any free time to write earlier. To begin with, there is, of course, the language school and homework, but the main reason for it is the fact that I had been camping in the middle of a sandy island with no internet, computers or any technology at all. It was, however, one of the most amazing trips since my journey to Japan:

We (some other guys from the school and I) hardly had been driving for an hour or so when the guide suddenly stopped his car. The reason was a sea snake crawling across the beach which served us as a road. It was the start of a 3-day-camp and we already met one of the deadliest snakes of the world on the way there. Scary!

The following days, however, we rarely saw dangerous species or at least we couldn’t tell whether they were poisonous or not. Keeping some distance was definitely a good advice and so we stayed alert. There were some funny incidents though, for instance, when some girls were having a shower and then suddenly shouted out loud because there was an eight-legged creature in the shower as well. I bet it must have been quite uncomfortable.

As for the island, it was splendid and is called K’gari not without a good reason: The original name from the aborigines means 'paradise'. And paradise it was! While wandering through a sand desert on the isle, suddenly a lake appears and one may jump into the refreshing and revitalizing water. Some kilometers away from the beach, there’s even a rainforest with 800-year-old trees. Absolutely gorgeous!

What impressed me most, however, was not the high trees, nor the exceptional wildlife, but the Milky Way. When I saw it, I was absolutely amazed by the massive amount of stars shining on the moon-less sky. While there’s a high light pollution in Switzerland, on K’gali, the sky was free of any traffic lights, airplanes or car lights. The stars where the one and only thing shining and they were absolutely astounding. There is only one sky but what I saw was completely different from what I knew from home. Additionally, instead of the “Grosser Wagen”, there were other, unknown constellations.

Now I’m back in Noosa, feeding the cats of my host family while they are on holidays, typing words on a computer and the stars disappeared again, hidden behind street lamps.