Byron Central Apartments Byron Bay

... here for ten days, but it has been a very relaxing time which I thoroughly enjoyed. I spent a lot of my time writing out in the garden of the hostel in range of the Wi-Fi, so I could download films for future quiet nights, which I’ve been unable to do for quite some time. I went out on a surf board to the beach a couple of times, managing to stay on my feet a little ...

... with some crazy friggin Irish and Finnish people, I woke up hung over for the entire day and felt like doing nothing but beaching, which, as I said before, is exactly what happened!

So long for now!

Just as a side note to people in Canada -- Turkish Pide bread, cut in half and toasted with lots of butter is perhaps one of the greatest bread-like foods known to mankind. I've been meaning to say that for a while now so I'm glad I got it off my chest!

... to win a couple of beers in the trivial pursuit game and had a fun night.
I may have had a little to much fun though as a woke up in the morning and forgot to checkout before loading up on the bus. It also happened that the hostel had the highest key deposit I've experienced at $20. So that was a bit of any expensive souvenir. Anyways the next stop is surf camp which I'm pretty excited about.

... lanes very well placed about every 15 to 20 km, so there was rarely a sense of being rushed or delayed. The bays I stopped at along the way (Nelson Bay, Byron Bay and Lennox/Surfers Paradise) were incredibly beautiful each in their own right. The latter three were full of surfers and skim boarders and huge-contained on at least one side by mountains or a precipitous cliff. The former ...

On the 1st of April I moved from the YHA to the Arts Factory to stay in a Teepee! No April Fools joke from me! The Arts Factory is this cool, hippy, random establishment (not the right word but I cant think of the right one) which is a 10 min walk from the main bit of Byron. Its got hammocks by a little lake and turkeys and water dragons wandering around having territory fights by your feet! I was staying in the pentagon, an all girls dorm which didnt leak unlike the other teepee ...

... died before we could get a good view of it. We finished walking round mount Matheson and headed toward Pholis Gap trail. On the way we met some big red macaws in the tops of the trees, dropping large seeds on us. The pholis gap trailheaded downwards quite steeply. Along the way we saw a number of fat black skinks about 18 inches long. After looking them up in a book we found out they are. Called mullets. There were also many huge trees, some were ...

... salad and an amazing cup of chai. I get a chance to finish my postcards and the sun re-appears. The beach is just a bit away so I head to that and spread my towel and spend the afternoon reading, its warm but very cloudy with the odd spit of rain,the black clouds on the horizon look menacing but stay away. I watch the surf club coach a few people with their first surfing lesson, then decide the black clouds are getting too close for ...

... strip with shops and restaurants, and the arguably the best fish and chips on Oz (well of course we had to try!) They were pretty good! (we won't make it a habit!) The beach was absolutely beautiful and not far from the famous Lighthouse which is the most easterly point in Australia! So we trekked up there in the day and walked back along the beach, but better yet we took a trip there one morning for the sunrise, (we apologise for the ...

... it. Byron Bay itself didn't hold to much appeal for us - it is very nice to stroll around the stores, have a few beers in the Great Northern Hotel (some large bands play there too) and just amble around slowly, being hippy-ish - tuning in and dropping out - or something like that. But the surrounding nature reserves, beaches and general setting was sublime, that we couldn't help but stay a few days. Cape Bryon, around which ...

After another heavy night of drinking I was gutted to be wide awake before 8am, but to be fair it probably wasn't helped by Katie calling around hostels in Byron Bay with the phone right next to my head. Some might even suggest this was done intentionally...

I took the hint and got up, to find out that H had woken up at 5am and couldn't get back to sleep either ...