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Byron Bay Slideshow
Byron Bay
Travel Blogs from Byron Bay, Australia
magical
we visited the crystal castle today, well its not a castle but it is on top of a hill and full of crystals! a very magical and spiritual place, and im sure we will visit it many more times in the future. the castle is located at a potent intersection of ...
From Bananas to Byron
I left Coffs harbour behind on the 8am greyhound, bound for Byron Bay. Coffs itself is the biggest town between Newcastle and the Goldcoast and although tourism is now a big business there, it used to be bananas, these were grown extensively and ...
Life's a beach!!!
... landed on me, but i got it off quick as it might well have been a deadly red-back spider! We left Coffs, and arrived in Byron Bay on 10th, just as the weather turned awesome. Byron is an old hippy town, so its really chilled. We've already spent one ...
Byron Bay
Hello everyone, hope everyone is OK! Back in Aus now after NZ and loving the women and the weather, in Byron Bay at the moment and i love it here. Byron is tiny but its just a party town which is so chilled out in the day but mental at night. The beach ...
Byron Bay and Nimbin
... or room accessed form outside, with central commual areas. We heading into Byron to have a look around and get something to eat. Byron Bay was alot smaller than i thought it was going to be. Really just a smallish town, I had expected tall buildings, ...
Cooool Teepee Maaaannn!!!
... raining in Sydney and its hasn't stopped much since. So I am heading North in the hopes of warmer climes. Arriving in Byron Bay after a series of kinda soulless hostels (certainly after the ones in South America anyway) I decided that I was going to ...
Up for the sunrise & the Cinema has re opened
... the free bus and we were taken to the Lighthouse, which was about 5kms away from The Arts Factory Lodge hostel and 3kms from Byron Bay centre. We were pleased that we hadn't walked it yesterday. We arrived just as the sun was breaking the horizon and got ...
Hasch Cookies waren gestern Drogenlasagne ist nun!
... sehe wer überhaupt noch ein Board besitzt. Jedoch sind es noch genug wenn ich mir am Strand die Künste der Wellenreiter anschaue. Byron Bay ist an sich echt sehr sehr schön und mal etwas anderes. Mein Hostel in Byron ist dafür auch mal etwas anderes ...
Bank Holiday Weekend = Traffic!!!
... and Fraser Island tours today - 2 days 1 night on Fraser Island, exploring, and 3 days Whitsundays sailing, which we can't wait for! Exploring Byron Bay tomorrow, walking up to Cape Byron - RIch's next training mission for Chiang mai for me, haha! ...
Heaven with just a touch of hell
... in between are "alternative" in nature. It is safe to say that Byron is one of the hippie epicenters of Australia and I'd say a weekend in Byron Bay is like spending a weekend in the late 1960's. With all of this in place, we have the makings of ...
Lazy Sunbaking Days
Byron Bay is a tourist magnet simply because of its nice beaches, good café /restaurant scene, little boutique shops and it's quirky, bohemian characteristics maintained from it's days as Australia's 'hippy' capital. We certainly had no problems ...
Byron Bay
... and with that commercial interests. Out of fear of being developed into some high rise horror like the Gold Coast, Byron Bay was the first council in Australia to elect the Green Party (in 2003). I had accommodation at a friend of a friend´s ...
Byron Bay
Hallotjus, zoals jullie weten vertrok mijn trip naar Nimbin (beetje een verkeerde woordkeuze, mijn trip) vanuit Byron Bay. Een klein, idyllisch plaatsje waar opvallend veel mensen met dreadlocks rondlopen, waar opvallend veel mensen zelfs op blote voeten ...
Byron Bay
Byron Bay a place where young and old walk down the street barefoot, with nothing more than boardies and a board, or if you stay where i did a bunch of wannabe stinking hippies with bad attitudes and lots of magic mushrooms. Now i'm all for do what you ...
Encore des retrouvailles
... d’autres de disponibles… Alors le plan c’est d’aller dropper le van à Brisbane puis de se rendre jusqu’à Byron bay pour aller surfer un peu si on à le temps. Finalement moi et Marco on s’est perdu en se rendant, et ...
Byron Bay - the surfing mecca of the east coast!
... goes up and down like crazy! and when I finished all the rides, I just went on it again and again until the park closed... :) BYRON BAY Like I wrote in the title, byron is the surfer's mecca of the east coast, and one of the best surfing coasts in ...
a new year
... shimmers like an opened box of gold treasure WOW! It's Sunrise what a delightful pleasure. The big shining gold ball rise’s so bright, so beautiful what a lovely sight Wow! What a wonderful way to start the day! Hip hip hurray new year in Byron ...
People Watching on Byron Bay Beach
... you look as you walk through the town to the beach are backpackers and hippies. Despite this the prices are still pretty high in Byron Bay as we learned later that night. We decided to head down to a local bar and club for some cheap food and even ...
Surfing on a Rocket
... I had some fantastic falls. But, honestly, it was SO much fun. I can absolutely see how this is something people get addicted to. Byron Bay was sort of a funny place to be. Lots of bare feet. Lots of people drinking and surfing and hanging out. It ...
All we need is a good day in chilled out Byron Bay
... and a kebab for the night and wake up beside some wrinkly hippy in his urine soaked bed! That night we went back to Byron Bay and were kept awake most of the night by torrential rain. Luckily enough we are heading to the Sunshine State tomorrow so ...
Byron Bay
... of our hostel at 10, and after battlign with the luggage lockers for a bit, we hired some bikes to ride up to the lighthouse in Byron bay. This point is the most easternly point of australia, so has to be visited. As yesterday, teh weather was ...
Hervey Bay to Coffs Harbour
... thing was really emotional! So that was a very dazzling lining to a very dark cloud. After Hervery Bay, we drove on to the area of Australia Zoo, which we'd been looking forward to visiting. To be honest, I was quite underwhelmed. ...
How many times do I have to switch dorm rooms!!
This is a top pick! ... X factor (think they were called 4G's ??) . There's even more crap on the floors up here, what kind of a place is this, Byron Bay's recycling depot??!! There doesnt seem to be a spare bed in the very dim lighting above me....I ask around and I get a few ...
Jarrod and Scotty and Byron Bay...
So we've been here in Byron Bay, the best place in the world, for 3 nights. We are gonna stay here another 3 or 4 and then head back up north to the Sunshine coast to pick up Gibby and the boys. Man, Byron is a riot. We've been surfing everyday. The ...
King's Beach
... to hostel, met back up with group. Had BBQ on the beach..im getting pretty good at this Aussie BBQ thing. We do it all the time. Loved my time in Byron Bay. Would have stayed longer if i could have. Maybe i'll actually make it to Surfers Paradise ...
Surfing and getting all zen in Byron Bay
... for lessons the next morning and used the rest of the day to hike to the Eastern-most Point of Australia and checkout the lighthouse overlooking Byron Bay, then had an awesome yoga session. Another good dinner and then bed to be ready for our lesson. ...
candy
this is candy "sweet dreams" our new vw camper (1976) she makes you smile everytime you drive her, she gets waves from other classic vw owners where ever she ...
Byron bay
Finally caught up with Ellie for good and spent a couple of days in the Hippie infested town of Byron Bay. Stood on the eastern most point of Australia and had my photo taken. Rushed on back to Sydney to meet up with Tucker and Lisa. This time we sadly ...
Byron Bay
This is the 'Hippie Hangout' in Australia. Pretty big for surfers. This is probably one of the nicest and chilled out places we've been to so far. The views from the Lighthouse were pretty ...