One year away from home!

Half Year

Today I have been in Australia exacly 6 months. Its 67 days to the end of the year and 182 when my visa expires.
When I started from highly populated Brisbane it didnt seem so different. But its a big country, slightly bigger than Europe and so far I have traveled only 1/3 around it.
Now I am in Northen Territory with population only around 0,2 mil and bit over half of them in capital Darwin. With land area bigger than Spain, France and Germany all together makes it least populated state in Australia. 0,15 people per km2 vs. 29 in Estonia.

There is no endless sandy deserts as you may think. Most of the land quite usable, just savanna and rocks with small trees and sandy soil as you can see from pictures.
Not many legendary venomous creatures also. Especially when you stay in the city you probably dont see them at all. Though you have to choose swimming place carefully. Even when hardly any accidents happen they still happen. Average 0,7 people killed by crocodiles next to 1 by sharks per year. Mostly due to wrong behaviour by the victim. Total 13 deaths by spiders and 8 by snakes ever. So probably you will survive even when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I spend most of my days in Darwin preparing my way to south by west coast. Its around 35C and 75% humididy but its getting warmer and more humid day by day. Have to cool myself down in Lake Alexander and drink lot of water to keep my body liquids normal. Its too easy to get dehydrated and dizzy when brain stops working and you cant focus anymore.
Its fullmoon in two days so I have get my self together and start moving.

Just some pictures

New pictures uploaded: http://nagi.ee/photos/joss24/

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Have been managed to get rid of my computer addiction but also not writing any blog for a long time.
When i surprisingly found a nice internet in Rangat at Middle-Andaman, i had to use it. It's good luck when u find any communication in these island at all. But definitely u will find wild nature, great beaches, crabs that come out of water and steal a shell and live in the forest so u can hear them at night. Biggest sea crocodiles, biggest lobster who also comes out of water and climbs to coconut tree and cuts the coconut, climbs downs and eats it with his strong claws. And definitely sea turtles, small black scorpions and also sea snake who normally don’t like people but when u get very annoying for him then he will be 10 times more poisons and deadly than cobra.
Soory, but I don’t want to waist any more time inside. So i to north to find some abandon beach. And will be snorkeling and tracking to find some more interesting creatures and wildlife.
So far best change in my life and i hope to be tired of mangos and ocean beaches soon and will be heading to Australia.

I don’t have a camera but i had the chance to meet nice travel companion with camera and u can check out the pictures:
http://flickr.com/photos/81147406@N00/sets/72157594557899012/

Pakistan

Finally after month of travelling with V6sa i did something i imagined
a long time. The road from Sahedan to Quetta was desert. I have always
wanted to drive jeep in desert where everything is only horisont and
sand around you. It was almost it. Sometimes we drived off road and
only stones showed the way. Then after a while we drived on road again
there was a sign "C L E A N" and i thought maybe we were driving on
minefield and stones showed the clean way.