Mantra On Salt Beach Kingscliff

... us, effortlessly keeping up with us as we drove down the mountain to our chalet!<br><br>We all felt that we had had a fine break but were really delighted when Wilson arrived the next morning to say that, as they had no guests to follow straight on, we could have an additional night's stay 'on the house' if we liked. We did. During the day we visited Mount Tambourine and admired the shops, each declaring how they were more original and more appealing than all the others ...

... called it an even earlier night, and that was as exciting as my Byron trip got. A lot of people rave about Byron and really love it there, but I don't think I saw the best of it, with feeling ill and it raining most of the time. Will maybe have to go back another time and see if I like it any better. Either that or head to Nimbin (random hippie town nearby) and just get a bit wonky for a day on an "alternative tour".

... experience some of the surfer bum lifestyle.<br> Of what time i did spend there most was in the local bar 'Cheeky Monkeys'. It just so happened that it was there 20 year anniversary or something so there was a load of games and prizes. All the bar staff were wearing some pretty scary looking clown makeup and they had bit of on on circus act with people hanging from ropes and what not. I ...

... so we've spent a lot of time at the beach which has been so lovely. On Thursday morning we got up at 5am to go and watch the sunrise at Australia's most easterly point. It was really cool, bit of cloud around (if we'd of done it the last few days there wouldn't have been a cloud in the sky!) but perfect for taking loads of pics! The nights out in Byron have been great fun, the backpacker club of the town is ...

... Trotz der glaubwürdigen Erscheinung befahl der Mann in grün den Parkplatz in 5Minuten zu räumen. Gesagt getan, hackengas und SCHUBRAKETE!!! Um uns von den Schocks des Hais, des Rangers und unseres großen Alkoholkonsums zu akklimatisieren, verabredeten wir uns mit unseren besten Freunden Tweety, Shrek, Spongebob, , Austin Power und der gewaltigen Power Rutsche. Aber wie diese Begegnungen verliefen ist eine weitere nasse Story ...

... I head for Surfers Paradise. My stupid satnav has stopped working (you have to put in a PIN, and they've given me the wrong PIN, and the phone system at Avis just goes round and round back to the options over and over again and my God in Heaven the ridiculousness of a satnav with a PIN code to begin with) so am gonna wing it. I managed to find my way to Nimbin alright, the guy at the Byron YHA gave me some directions ...

... you are living in shared accommodation, in a different country etc show some ******n respect. Most people get all that stuff out of their system in their teens/while at uni etc, However the main perpetrators were probably around 18, on a gap year or something before uni. Oh I see.........I wish daddy paid for me to go travelling too.<br><br>Anywho Byron was pretty ace, mainly due to the terrific surf we ...

... Regenwass**. Regenwass** gab es auch zu trinken. Ab** zu all** v**teidigung: das regenwass** war sehr saub** und schemckte bess** wie das v**chlorte leitungswass** in d** stadt. Ja..das war fast bills ganzes hab und gut. Sein haus,sein zu hause. Sich** nicht fu** jed** mann etwas. Und ic muss ehrlich zugeben,dass es mich am 2.tag schon wied** sehr zrueck in die zivilisaton gezogen hat. Ab** nach andrejs zureden und d** liebensw**tigkeit von bills,konnte ich  es ...

... all those hands over his soft fur. Well, we were wrong on two counts: first, they don't seem to dislike the attention (they were free to leave anytime they wanted but they didn't). And, secondly, their fur is not that soft at all. The park ranger picked a koala from the multitude of individuals sleeping in the trees around us, set him (it was a quite large male) in a V shaped gum tree branch (remember the "bum in the fork" from Kangaroo Island ...

Wow!! What a relief to have finally started our big adventure. It felt like it was so long in the making, so to be started is such an excellent feeling. We left Carlingford around 11am on Friday morning and made it to the highway to head north for some much needed and wanted sun. We made it to the central coast when we saw a sign to the Forest of Tranquility - well, it sounded much too nice to miss so we pulled off and followed a long, long road before ...