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.

Tallinn-Riga-Tbilisi

When i entered to bus in Tallinn I hear word "Tbilisi". Some guy and girl were speaking about travel destinations. I quickly joined to the converstation asking instructions to Georgia. I found out that guy was Marius and he was exchange student in Tibilisi University. We ended up discussing about all things in the world and didnt noticed the whole 5h trip to Riga.
When we arrived to Tibilisi Marius started to find us a cheap taxi, because taxidrivers like to overcharge tourist. He found one for 25 lari. On 1st km gasoline ended and we pushed car to the nearest gastation. What a sport in -2 degrees. Inspite our efforts drivers annouced 25 PER FACE fee in the end. So Marius had a litte fight with them but i agreed to pay 50 because it was nothing considered estonian prices and distance.

Start

My future plans came pretty clean when i accidentally met Joel from Australia in Maailmakyla festival this summer.

I was with my friends next to Pirita klooster and John called me and invited me to the festival what i was already enjoying over the hedge. So we met and had some memorable moments there and after the consent we were heading to center. I needed to use the ATM but some dude had left his card in it, so i took it out and shouted out loud:"Who is Joel Alas?". And the guy standing next to me said:"Me". So we got off with a good start and i invited him later to John`s place where we had little jamming session and where he met V6sa.

So we had quite fun time together and exacly 5 months later i bought a plane ticket from Riga, Latvia to Tbilisi, Georgia. And two weeks before leaving i had damn hard time because i was living in Tallinn more than 5 years and i needed to move out from apartment and give up my work and so on. I had a big list of things i wanted to do but some are still undone.

In the 2.12.06 after weeks of sweatting I finnaly move out in eight hours and went 50 km outside from the city to my parents house in countryside. At this point i was sure catching a 6.am bus to Riga in the morning to spend some time in Riga. But after i tryed my mum`s delicious dinner i was forced to take a nap. So my dad gave me a lift back to town at 9.am and i do my best to catch last bus not to miss plane in Riga. I even call to Kaire to help me pack and to give lift to busstation, otherwise i would have missed it.

And thats how it started. I needed a change - and i got it.