Dolphins Motel Byron Bay

... was of little interest during the 55 second freefall. The instructor, Joe, was able to spin us around, which was an amazing feeling, and when the time was right, opened the parachute, and gave me control!

During the jump, there was no feeling in my stomach of leaving it on the plane, like you get with a roller coaster or a bungee jump, so the biggest rush from the whole dive came when turning the parachute round in circles. The descent was ...

... over as **** and with a ride waiting for me to go skydiving. Alright everyone, I know I've said it before, but holy ****, it's something you HAVE to do. I've gone twice now and I would gladly go so many more times. The experience is unbelievable. And anyone can do it! They had a 101 year old man do it at this company three years ago. Everything is so awesome about it. The ride up is totally chilled out, relaxed and you get a wicked view of the countryside. The nervous feeling ...

... her contempt of my fitness. But once she had recovered from what to her was a marathon run she was rewarded with the views from the light house that I had already enjoyed once this morning.

I confess to taking a slight detour on the way back through a rain forest adding another two kilometres to the walk back to her hotel, and I don't think this is an appropriate forum to type her sentiments once she had caught onto my game.

Byron ...

... it wasn't wild or capable of surviving in the forest and followed us back to the van. We took it in and, although it was very cute, its relentless climbing all over us, all night, did ware a bit thin! While drinking the shiraz, our song changed to "We got $900...and a stray cat...." The next morning we left in the capable hands of the RSPCA. And now we are in Byron Bay! We have visited some great beaches on the ...

... and it was a bit expensive. After the town of nimbin we drove for ages again and had a free bbq. It was still raining hard and we sat on benches that were luckily sheltered and waiting for our food. This was at 3pm!! I was so hungry!! Aussie sausages are a bit weird tasting, slightly on the frankfurter side but nice then that! I ate three because I was so hungry! After the bbq we drove to a waterfall that we would have swam in, only the water levels were about 4 times higher then ...

... Pholis Gap. Soon after the start I was following Jack and saw a snake raise its head as he passed over it - bit scary! He hadn't noticed. We then wondered what to do as I was behind, so Jack used a long stick to prod it a bit to see what it would do and it looked a bit threatening so I gave it a very wide berth and hoped it didn't have any friends in the uindergrowth! It kept its head raised the whole time we were there which shows its edgy, so it was ...

... I head out to Noodle Box which is a cheapy noodle place and get myself some dinner and sit outside and eat, I then head to the cinema to see my film. Changeling is absolutely amazing and alot better than Gran Tourino, another piece of genius from Mr. Eastwood. I like the fact that he scores his own music too and seems to be recorded on the 'Eastwood Stage' somewhere and performed by another member of his clan (who I cant remember the name of). After the movie I decide to write a bit ...

... the town which is filled with great restaurants, galleries, and tons of shops. One of our highlights was the Byron Lighthouse which sits on the most easternly point of Australia and had some incredible 360 views of the area. We also made our way to Tallows beach to check out some of the surf and relax. There was an amazing rainstorm that night that made it almost ...

... seen the cars... in the evening we watsched Australian Idol, it was really fun, because eeryone had been drinking whine all afternoon, there was a lot of singing. it was ABBA night. I really enjoyed that. well I'm leaing here tomorrow to go to Surfers paradies, sounds good already, doesn't it? loads of love

... our time on the Gold Coast coincided almost perfectly with this period, so we agreed to drive through Surfers without staying there.

The weather today was warm but cloudy, so we drove up the beach front, had a quick walk down the beach, made some sandwiches for lunch and headed south again...



About an hour later we arrived in Byron Bay, another ...