CURRENT MISSION

Find my way into the outback

ABOUT ME

I'm a 27 year old Dutch guy and I've been traveling Australia for the past 1,5 years. So far it has been big adventure.

Worked with animals near Cairns in a privately owned zoo as a tour guide (showing off Tarantulas, Scorpions and Reptiles) and pulling Pythons around people's necks for photo opportunities. Since a couple of months work I traveled down the East Coast and my next stop would be the outback. After that: back home...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment it's impossible for me to host (maybe in my car? hehe) because I don't have a house, let alone a couch! When I get back to Amsterdam, and find myself a place I will definitely host people. Seems to me it's a great way to keep in touch with the travel vibes (even being back home in the cold...)

Maybe the best thing about CS is the focus on positiveness in people... Mostly people assume the negative sides, but how great is it to just get people you never met before, into your house, or step into someones house, and it works out just fine! Things like that can really give me a boost of positiveness! Just great.

As a surfer I am able to cook food and not to make a big mass out of the place hehe. Of course I love to share experiences and believe me, I have no problem talking the ears off your heads... especially after a couple of beers, wines, or other drinks.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Haven't been surfing for a while. Only around Perth more than a year ago. Had good experiences over all. Some better than the other, but always interesting to experience the local side of a city. Would be cool to pick it up again.

Interests

- Art in general (Paintings, Music, Movies etc.)
- Nature/Wildlife/Environmentalism
- Photography
- Cooking

• animals
• wildlife
• fish
• reptiles
• arts
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• opera
• fishing
• surfing
• scuba diving
• tourism
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Music Artists:
- Melvins
- Stinking Lizaveta
- Butthole Surfers
- Harvey Milk
- AIR
- Boards of Canada
- Nathan Fake
- James Holden
- and a lot more. Actually I just like good music hehe. My Last.fm account:
http://www.last.fm/user/Smoghler

Movie Directors:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Alfred Hitchcock
- David Lynch
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
and a lot more.

Book Authors:
- Haruki Murakami
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Cormac McCarthy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Visiting the HR Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland.
- Diving (Ningaloo Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Yongala Shipwreck, South West Rocks Fish Cave)
- Kakadu National Park (and a lot of other cool National Parks..)
- Spotting a (no two) platypus in the wild
- Went to the Opera House for a special Noise Night currated by Lou Reed (who also played lots of noise on stage)

Teach, Learn, Share

Interested in learning much more about:
- environmentalism
- wildlife/nature
- photography
- scuba diving
- music (also still want to learn to play the guitar so I can become a rock star one day)

To share:
- The fun
- Things about the Netherlands (and perhaps some Dutch words/sentences)
- My cooking
- Experience, knowledge...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Netherlands