Nullarbor Plain | Australia | 2010

My first encounter with a kangaroo | Australia | August 2009

Pink lakes | Western Australia | 2010

Cotton candy skies | Australia | 2010

This was a way of life for many weeks. I have woken up to some of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen in some very remote and lonely places | South Australia | 2010

View from the water of the Opera House | Sydney 2009

Alice Springs Northwest Territories | Australia | 2010

Mindil Beach Darwin | Australia | August 2010

Great Ocean Road | Australia | 2010

Seals relaxing in the sun | Australia | 2010

Sand dunes | Australia | 2010

Australias Northwest Territory Adventure | Darwin | August 2009

My very first rodeo experience ever | Katherine, Australia | September 2009

I lived in the tent on the right for 6 weeks while working in the outback on a farm sorting onions and picking watermelons. I became so paranoid of all the wildlife around me that I started to believe I had ants and insects crawl through my hair at night. Precautiously I was checking the tent and sleeping back for snakes and spiders every night. It’s called survival | Outback Australia | September 2009

What a palette of hard work looks like | Outback Australia | October 2010

Catching phone reception with my Nokia phone by the highway to call mom and dad in Germany. This fence was the reception life line | Outback Australia | October 2009

How traveling and living out of a van looked like. Back to the days where paper road atlas was still a thing | En route to Alice Springs | November 2009

Middle of nowhere | En route Katherine to Alice Springs | November 2009

Pit stop, only moments before our van broke down in the middle of nowhere | Outback in the centre of Australia | October 2009

Fortunate moment. An outback animal rescuer towed us with a short, thin rope for 200km. It was an experience for our german minds | Alice Springs | November 2009

Made it alive and well to Alice Springs and found a german flag outside a steakhouse restaurant | Alice Springs, Northwest Territory | October 2009

Climbed up this giant rock formation to enjoy the first sunset in | Alice Springs | October 2009

Directions | Alice Springs | October 2009

Walking around the Uluru and I’m smiling, but the flies there are on biblical plague levels. Invest in a face net or you’ll be swatting trying to avoid getting unwanted protein | Alice Springs | November 2009

Spiritual place | the heart of the continent | Meaningful and sacred to the aboriginal people | I suggest not to climb it | Uluru | November 2009

When dreams come true. Before going to Australia I looked at a picture of the Uluru so many times, saying to myself “I will go there” | Uluru | November 2009

South Australian landscape | April 2010

Australia has the best signs | South Australia | April 2010

Rainforet Adventure | Cairns, Queensland | October 2009

I clearly gave Tomb Raider vibes to my travel mates on this rainforest excursion | Cairns | October 2009

Mud face paint | Cairns, Queensland | October 2009

Front row seat for the giant dog | Cairns | Australia 2009

Me after coming back from the rainforest | I felt good that day | Australia 2009

On the way to go snorkeling | Great Barrier Reef | Australia 2009

Not a nocturnal animal just a girl who ran out of money and had to sleep on the beach for the night | Australia 2009

Fileting a fish at one of the most beautiful places I got to experience | Fraser Island | Australia 2009

Teaching me how to get the job done | Fraser Island | Australia 2009

Pretty things on camera | Australia 2009

Camera didn’t pick up on that butterfly | Blue Mountains | Sydney 2009

Architectural masterpiece Sydney opera house | Australia | New South Wales | December 2009

Sydney House Party. I shared a room in a house in Sydney with 14 other people, not including the bedbugs and cockroaches. I was in a small room with two bunkbeds, 4 other people. Everyone in this house came from Europe looking for cheap rent in the centre of Sydney. Cheap it was | Sydney | December 2009

Skyline Sydney | Australia | December 2009

Aboriginal flag | Newtown Sydney | December 2009

Sydney new yeas fireworks. These fireworks are planned a year in advance and are some of the most popular ones in the world. The cost $5.8 million | Australia 2009

Sydney Harbour Bridge moments after the fireworks | Australia 2009/10

Chophouse Sydney. First time in my life I worked at a steakhouse restaurant near the Sydney Opera House. I googled it and it still alive and well | Sydney | December 2009

Bondi Beach Walks and finding rock formation treasures | Sydney | January 2010

Bondi Beach to Bronte Coastal Walk | Sydney | January 2010

In Australia they will let you know | CBD Sydney | January 2010

Fitzroy tram. My daily commute to work from my neighbourhood while living in Melbourne. I loved this area. This city is really close to my heart | Australia 2010

March 18th the morning after St.Patrick’s Day. I walked a few miles back to my place and saw these two girls sitting outside their window so casually | Melbourne | March 2010

Ron Mueck Art Exhibition. He is an australian born artist doing incredible, weird and kind of creepy work | Melbourne | February 2010

Chinatown Melbourne | Australia 2010

240km stretch along the Great Ocean Road | Australia | April 2010

Sunset view of the Twelve Apostles along the Great Ocean Road. An unforgettable day in my australian journey | Australia | April 2010

Crazy road, who build it? | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Up and down road next to the wild ocean | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Silently taking it all in. The freedom so much of this land exudes gives me a comforting feeling | Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Tour guide in the tour bus. What I really loved about these tour bus adventures were all the different and interesting people I have met from all over the world. Everyone has a good or useful tip to give about their backpacking experience | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Seals chilling and camouflaging next to the wild ocean | Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Encounter at dawn with a kangaroo | Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Stack of sleeping bags for the night | Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

How food was prepared for the entire group. Everything happened outdoors | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

I loved watching the seals on Kangaroo Island. They have truly figured out hat relaxing and sunbathing is | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Art in the sand by mother nature | Kangaroo Island | April 2010

Kangaroo Island seal | Australia | 2010

John, the pelican man on Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Flying fish for the pelicans | Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Whacky pelicans on Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Pelican men down under with his pelicans | Kangaroo Island | Australia | April 2010

Catching a rainbow in Adelaide’s vineyards | Australia | April 2010

Found aboriginal rock art somewhere out there | South Australia | April 2010

Following distant roads | South Australia | April 2010

I have traveled by car through most of the 6th largest continent in the world | Australia | April 2010

Endless land ahead | South Australia | April 2010

Traveling with the same people for long periods of time through endless straight roads, desert and treeless land can become exhausting. I journaled a lot on these long car rides. Sometimes even feeling homesick as I thought of my family in Europe so far away living an entirely different life. It felt like being on a different planet | Middle of Nowhere Australia | 2010

The sky feels and looks different in Australia | Down Under | 2010

A full backpackers van. It became strategic to pack and unpack every day, to go without a shower for longer than expected and finding a place every single night to pitch a tent | South Australia | 2010

Changing land. Anything that you have never seen before becomes new. Even the grass and bushes on the side of the road. This was a playful time in my life without social media, filtered selfies and excessive cell phone usage. Im thankful I still got to experience it | South Australia | 2010

Arriving at the pink salt lakes and you can see our van bed from the back window looking in | Pink Lakes Australia | 2010

The hat tree somewhere in the outback | Down Under | April 2010

Australian riding his motorcycle with his dog | Western Australia | April 2010

Rest spot. It is harder than one might think to find a new place to sleep every night and to safely park your van somewhere. Much more challenging in urban areas | Western Australia | 2010

The glow at Margaret River | Western Australia | May 2010

Studying sunsets. In Australia I have learned how fast the sun goes down. I watched it get swallowed by the earths ocean every night in perfect rhythm | Western Australia | May 2010

Perfection exists. I never got tired of watching the sun set and rise in the most beautiful ways I have ever seen. Sometimes we would count it down. It’s a matter of seconds when it sinks in its last stages. These fisherman figured it out, too | Margaret River | Western Australia 2010

How long did it take for us to realize this? Steffi was a german friend I have made in Australia along my solo backpacking journey. I come from the south of Germany and she is from the north | Perth | May 2010

Cellphone selfies did not exist in 2010. I took this flashy photo with my camera at a bars washroom in Perth | Western Australia | May 2010

Perth at night | Western Australia | May 2010

How you look for a job in Australia at 9am in the morning | Kalgoorlie | Western Australia | June 2010

The Golden Mile, producing one of the richest gold deposits in the world | Kalgoorlie Super Pit | Western Australia | July 2010

Shell in the sand | Western Australia | June 2010

Thank you for seeing my light and believing in me | Zane | Northwest Territories | Darwin August 2010

Another jetty with a beautiful pink sky somewhere in Western Australia | May 2010

Termite mounds build by hardworking insects at Kakadu National Park. They tower as high as 6 metres, but can go up to 8 metres and last for up to 60 years | Darwin | Northwest Territories | August 2010

Litchfield National Park | Northwest Territories | Australia | August 2010

No salt water crocodiles here. It’s safe to cool off. | Litchfield National Park | August 2010

Lichfield National Park was my last adventure before I had to fly back home. I was sad and not ready to leave Australia yet. I wanted to fly out from the same place where I started a year ago | Darwin | August 2010

Looking for work in a newspaper. One thing all backpackers had in common and that was the constant pursuit for finding work to make money | Backpackers Hostel | Darwin | August 2010

Jellyfish or mushrooms? I don’t know. I only know that jellyfish season in the ocean can turn deadly in Australia | Australia | 2010

Geocaching in a cemetery meeting with two colorful birds resting in the grey surroundings | South Australia | April 2010

Peaceful moment | South Australia | April 2010

Pulled over by the police in the middle of nowhere. Where did this guy come from? | South Australia | April 2010

Mystery found at the beach. Animal bone or rock? | Great Ocean Road | March 2010

Koala in a tree, as we know them | Western Australia | May 2010

Sunset at the cemetery after a day of geocaching | South Australia | April 2010

Go dingo, go | Fraser Island | October 2009

Our ride through Fraser Island. Sand will be everywhere at all times. You cant escape it, not on this island | East Coast Australia | October 2009

Beautiful things. Sun and warm weather are medicine for the soul | Fraser Island | East Coast Australia | October 2009