Greenmount Beach Resort Coolangatta

... skytrain' just north of the city so we drove up to a beauty spot in the Barron Gorge NP to spend the night, before an early start next morning. We chose this spot because it was the only place for miles around that didn't have 'no camping' signs. Unfortunately, we were disturbed at 11pm by 2 car loads of youths who parked next to us and played loud music, banged on the door and shouted menacingly at us. It didn't seem that we were welcome to stay - so we didn't. This ...

... we stayed. We booked into a former hotel that had been converted into a backpacker's hostel obviously with the idea of making themselves some more money by piling more of us in there. What we didn't know it was right above a very noisy local bar heavily frequented by many noisy locals which didn't add up to much sleep but more on that later. Our first problem was our dorm mates. We stayed in a ...

... sounds I had never heard before in all my travels. Rounding a corner there was suddenly the sound of rushing water and the view opened up to a waterfall in the distance plunging hundreds of feet into a rainbow hued mist. Wow. After an awesome hike we were back at the car and an older man overheard the American accents. He asked if I was in the service because of my short hair I presume and I told him no. He squinted ...

... were content to watch movies most of the way, Jim and I found it entertaining to just gaze out the window at such a different and changing world. This made Jim very nervous when I was driving. Coffs Harbour Coffs Harbour is about 6 hours up the coast, and we spent 2 nights there. Coffs is the banana capital of Australia. So we passed plenty of banana plantations along the way. Lots of sugar cane fields as well. Our hotel was just a short ...

... you and then charge you $30 for the pleasure but with a bit of luck the camera was broken so we could take our own pics . Oh my god it was bloody freezing!! It wasn't even minus 5.. it was minus 11!! We had to wear two pairs of gloves, a huge coat and boots! Thankfully I had jeans on.. Daiji on the other hand had shorts on so his legs froze! Although saying that my thighs were going numb by the time we left! It was really good though, all the ice sculptures ...

... town with colorful shop signs & lots of tourists. The main street isn't very long so we drove down to the other side of town & walked back in. Other people had told us that there are hippie's just wondering around, stoned (high on marawajana) & the green leaf being sold openly on the street, they were right. However if you look a little closer before you start sampling there fine quiseen, you notice the way they have ...

... Intro to Diving' as I found out that Julian Rocks is one of the top ten dive sites in Australia. I heard Courtney and his friend Ruth talking about how excited they'd been to see a lot of large Grey Nurse Sharks (they're endangered) and decided it was too good an opportunity to miss. I got geared up and went looking for the sharks with my instructor. We didn't see any, but after talking to Liz, and finding out that to really get the ...

... it couldn't be better.! The first day we got here, we met two danish guys, named Peter and Steffen at our campsite, which comes from the same town as I (eller naesten - de er fra Brabrand). Personally I don't know them, but we have some friends in common, and Line has been partying back home with one of them a couple of times before.So we spend the first night drinking with them. Other that that we have just been ...

... at the moment. I think we are going to get up early tomorrow morning at about 5.30am and get a ride up there with some others from the hostel to watch the sunrise. We saw superman tonight which was so much better than I expected (not like sitting through King Kong with rubbish CGI). Kevin Spacey is so scary in it though! We are leaving tomorrow afternoon to go to Surfers Paradise a bit further up the coast.