into New South Wales

After a heavy weekend in Straddie, we said goodbye to the others for now, and went a little bit north again to Caloundra. Spent a nice few days relaxing there, then headed back down to Brisbane- seemed like such a big city after everywhere else we’d been in Australia. Really pretty as well. Met up with a couple of marc’s friends there-, pete and jane on the thursday then sarah church on Friday.. Lots of fun again.

From there we went on southwards, stopping at Surfer’s Paradise. This isn’t the idyllic beach town that you might imagine…kind of more like an Australian version of Las Vegas- bright lights, high rise hotels, etc.



One of marc’s friends’ brother lives in Byron bay, so we were able to rent a room for a week. This was great, to have a roof and 4 walls after so long in the tent!!! Wasn’t too relaxing tho, as paul brought us round everywhere on a whirlwind tour. Was fantastic though- met lots of people (including Michael hutchence’s brother!) and did lots of things, inclusing going to Nimbin- an old hippy town and has to be seen to be believed- its hilarious. It was a great week. Byron is brilliant fun, and is in a lovely location in a bay surrounded by deep blue seas, and more whales!