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Great Alpine Road & Barry Way

the last two days I had a blast riding two of the best motorbike roads in Australia 🙂

The Great Alpine Road is less known than the Great Ocean Road, but much more fun! almost no traffic, good tharmac and nice views!
I think it’s even the highest sealed road in Australia at about 1800m.
the best part is between Bright and Omeo, but down to Bruthen is still pretty nice. there’s even a Mt Bernhard!

the day after I rode the Barry Way, which goes from the coast back up into the snowy mountains. it’s mostly gravel, but pretty good and beautyful scenery!
The road up to the Mount Kosciuszko was closed due to snow!

 


die letzten beiden Tage konnte ich wohl zwei der besten Motorradstrecken Australiens fahren!

Die Great Alpine Road ist weniger bekannt als die Great Ocean Road, aber viel besser! Kaum Verkehr, guter Strassenbelag und schöne Aussicht!
Ich glaube, es ist sogar die höchste geteerte Strasse von Australien auf ungefähr 1800m.
Der beste Teil ist zwischen Bright und Omeo, aber auch runter bis Bruthen ist es immer noch ziemlich schön. Es hat sogar einen St. Bernhard!

Am zweiten Tag bin ich den Barry Way gefahren, der von der Küste in die Snowy Mountains rauf führt. Es ist hauptsächlich eine Schottestrasse, aber ziemlich gut ausgebaut und führt durch wunderschöne Landschaften!

Die Strasse zum höchsten Pass beim Mount Kosciuszko war leider wegen Schnee geschlossen.

Tasmania

Finally some curvy roads here in Tasmania!

It’s cold and it rains pretty often, but I still camped as much as I could.

after 11 days on Tasmania I‘m taking the ferry back to Melbourne this evening.


Kakadu Nationalpark

I‘ve been visiting the Kakadu Nationalpark over the weekend. Unfortunately a lot of it is closed because of floodings as it‘s still wet season.


Waiting in Darwin for customs to release my bike

I’m in Darwin, Australia!

Australia seems to be very bureaucratic! I knew it is hard to get the bike through the inspection and customs. But I’m already here for a week and I don’t even had the first appointment with them!!
And nobody wants to tell you, what is needed and where to go. They want you to hire an agent, which will do the paperwork and appointments for you (for about 250$!).
I thought the main paperwork processing will be done by the company which shipped my bike and would be included in the shipping price. But the local Bollore/SDV office does not communicate with the one in Dili, they didn’t even know that a container is coming and I had to relay all information by myself!

I will keep you updated next week how it’s going…