Watermark At Wategos Byron Bay

... d** wir uns dann die Fotos runt**laden koennen. Zwischenzeitlich sind Wind und Wellen so stark geworden, dass die Nachmittagstour abgesagt worden ist. Die Hoehe d** Wellen war dann also doch nicht nur voellig subjektiv etwas groess** als man sich das normal**weise fu** so eine Touri-Tour vorstellt. Ich laufe klatschnass wie ich bin zurueck zum Guesthouse und treffe auf dem Weg natu**lich noch die beiden deutschen Freunde aus dem Greyhound, die die Tour am Vortag gemacht ...

... neben Greyhound eine weitere bekannte/beliebte Bus Company. Allerdings bei weitem nicht so flexibel wie Greyhound, weil sie nur einmal am Tag fahren, Greyhound teilweise bis zu fuenf mal.<br><br>Nachdem die Rezeption besetzt ist, lernen wir, dass wir fruehestens ab 12 Uhr in unsere Zimmer koennen, also putzen wir nur schnell Zaehne, damit wir der Zivilisation entgegentreten koennen und machen uns zu dritt (Tiffany, Max und ich) auf den Weg zum Strand!!!<br><br>Es gibt einen schoenen ...

... Grasshopper" - to Nimbim, a hippie town in the beautiful Byron hinterland with a, let's say, very high tolerance towards the use, possession and sale of cannabis (No did not buy anything). <br>Apart from the beach days the sea kayaking has to be the best part of the Byron trip - we really came fairly close to the Dolphins and the kayaking itself was so much fun, especially when ...

... made of stoned hippies. It was a cool experience though, going there. Everyone lives so simply, they just smoke pot, and live basically hand-to-mouth. But the best part is, it doesn't bother anyone! It's such a huge contrast coming from a society that values so many material things, really makes you look at your priorities.<br><br>Oh, also, the whole town has that incensey smell that hippies have. Like literally the whole town. It was kinda gross.<br><br>After Nimbin we ...

... away, its a pretty hip place to be and a good backpacker scene. I met Cheryl and Anne (from Bedfordshire) and Tom (from Wales) on the Greyhound bus and we checked into Nomads hostel together before walking along the beach, chatting and hoping for some good weather. On the walk we saw a dead puffa fish (my new facebook profile pic), which was cool but random. We decided on being adventurous ...

... hundreds of restaurants and bars, and then made use of them and had some drinks and a lovely Indian dinner, our last restaurant dinner for a few days! Saturday morning Frits picked up the car and we spent about 3 hours trying to find a camping shop! Central Sydney clearly only sold expensive, small, hiking equipment, whereas we were looking for camping equipment, eventually we found a 'Rays outdoors' on the road out to Blue Mountains and got everything we needed there. Next stop ...

... heard the wind and the rain and went straight back to sleep!!! Sunday night - it rained. It didnt stop, except to tease you and make you think it was ok to leave the hostel, until early tuesday morning! So Monday I spent mostly playing cards with Aline and Than (short for Nathania). They are from Alberta. They bought travel crib with them so we spent many a time playing that, and their version of rummy which I think we call Gin Rummy back here. I taught them ...

... Canyon (not as big - but still breathtaking!) and also go canyoning. I know I've said this a lot, but if you ever get a chance to go canyoning, do it!! It's like a giant outdoor natural waterpark! We went down waterslides, jumped into big deep holes of water, climbed in and out of rocks and swam around for a couple hours.... really really good time!! Our next destination was camping at the warmbungles (something like that ...

... was booked up. The kids used the shower and loo as such amenities dont come in the camper van. The sun was out again so we had a walk to the front and round the town. The population is a funny mixture of 20 something beach and surf kids, families and ageing hippies who busk on the pavements. There are shops to match this very varied crowd and yes the beach is lovely. Our first priority after a long drive was a beer and the Beach Hotel is the liveliest bar in town and was packed on this ...

... not naked though that was only him. He was described as crazy but to be honest i thought he was lovely, so he lives in the middle of nowhere with nothing and he's more than happy, he was really clever and i had a really good chat with home about the world and how george bush has pretty much induced the collapse of civilization and then he took us on a our of the grounds.  By this time all on the bus were not quite on the planet! Anyway it got weird as we walked through ...