East on Byron

Wellcome This travelogue is about my trip which includes 6 months living, working and enjoying Sydney, 1 month travelling along east coast of oz and 2 months in South east aisa, Hope you enjoy my tales and photos.

Our trip down the East Coast from Cairns down to Melbourne

This is just going quick update of my journey across the East Coast of Australia as I travel from Cairns down the coast to Sydney. I'll be stopping for a short trip in San Francisco on the way before I take the journey over the Pacific. I'll try to ...

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... of Swedish girls that we enjoyed a night out with along with a few others during our stay. Byron's nightlife is quite renowned down the east coast and we certainly understood why. Besides the nightlife, we also managed to drag ourselves ...

... are the young and elderly of society all too often feature. There were lots of very nice restaurants and shops which populated Byron Bay's main street, unfortunately my traveller budget couldn't stretch to any of them but it was clear that you would ...

... , life coaching, yoga, crystals, chocolate scented incense, sarongs, didgeridoos, locally crafted jewellrey, wheatgrass juice and veggie burgers. Byron is bustling and a pleasant place to walk around. It also has a very good supermarket where all the top ...

... exhausting day) in front of the TV and eating pot noodles (we really are quite lazy at the moment). Our final day in Byron Bay consisted of more lying on the beach and exploring the coastline. We walked along the beach to Cape Byron and ascended the ...

... celebrate St Patricks day. We had a few drinks at the hostel before heading to cheeky monkeys, the big backpackers club in byron. There was a dance competition, with the winner winning a scuba diving course, which was fun to watch, the barmaids wore ...

... the next morning and used the rest of the day to hike to the Eastern-most Point of Australia and checkout the lighthouse overlooking Byron Bay, then had an awesome yoga session. Another good dinner and then bed to be ready for our lesson. The next ...

... some dinner for the BBQ again and then had an early night to set off and move on once again in the morning. The drive to Byron bay was interesting, we went through fields and fields of sugar cane and farm after farm. We stopped off at a "Scottish town in ...

... I'll show pictures later)! We then made our way to Surfer's Paradise, Nimbin (weirdest and funniest place ever it's totally hippieville) and Byron Bay and will be back in Sydney in a few days to catch our flights home. It's been a wild and amazing ...

... do it by myself but then got chatting to a couple of people in the hostel the night before and they mentioned they wanted to skydive. byron bay has the highest jump zone in australia (14,00ft) so i suggested that they came with me the next day! so they ...

We have just arrived in Byron Bay fresh from our surf lesson and a little achey.... ouch! Byron Bay is a complete contrast to the hustle and bustle of Sydney... it is a really cool little town by the beach, loads of coffee shops, bars and restaurants ...

... I did what any rational person would and got a few beers down me and promptly passed out until we arrived. Looking back at Byron, I personally think it's way too over hyped. To me its just like another small surf town that everyone seems to have decided ...

... candles in my life! and saw the largest candle in the world, it can burn for half a year!! i took pictures the came back to byron and bookd a train ticket outta here next stop coffs harbour, on the way down the coast to Sydney!!!!      ...

... restaurants like McCdonalds, Hungry Jacks (Burger King), KFC etc  as they like there own organic produce. I was staying at cape Byron YHA. The first evening I went out with a German Guy from my room to the famous Cheeky Monkeys pub dancing on the ...

... (it's a 15 minute walk but with rucksacks and bags, it feels a hella lot longer!). It was proper sweatsville. So yes, all in all, we didn't have that much fun at Byron... maybe a reason to come back again in the future to try again?? Terri and Laura xx ...

... almost non stop for the two days we were there. We did venture out between downpours to do the coastal walk to Cape Byron Lighthouse, taking in mainland Australia's most easterly point on the way. We also thought it was about time we tried our snorkel ...