East Coast Australia

Trip Start Apr 21, 2008
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Trip End Sep 01, 2008


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Bessie
(Byron Bay hotels)

Flag of Australia  , New South Wales,
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Arriving in Byron Bay you can tell that this town is fairly relaxed and chilled out. There seems to be a great deal of people who dont seem to do much all day. The area is really nice, our favourite part of the time we spent here was the walk to Cape Byron ( the lighthouse) ...it went along the coast and the beach where we stood and watched surfers, then walked up a huge hill to the top where we saw loads of whales migrating to the warmer north waters. There were loads, along with these there were loads of dolphins playing in the surf and sea turtles popping their heads up every now and then. This was amazing and Craig went a bit overboard with the photos.

Unfortunately alog the way up i fell sort of and scraped a whole layer of skin off the bottom of my big toe, so there was quite a bit of blood and pain and we had a long walk back to the van with my homemade bandage. The whales and dolphins definately made the walk worth it. The walk back was quite difficult with me limping along behind and trying to get across the soft sand without getting any in the wound, but it was fun and a really nice day out.

From Byron we drove to Coffs Harbour and here we encountered our first downpour of rain. It chucked it down the first night we were here so with my bandaged toe covered in a little plastic bag we struggled to make tea in the lovely camp kitchen. Our van got wquiet wet that night and you can see how much the weather has changed.We are also feeling the cold alot more having come from such hot countries to here, its freezing. Here we walked along the coffs creek walk and along to Muttonbird Island, this was a long walk but was worth it to see the dark sky above the huge waves in the sea.

After Coffs harbour we headed to Port macquarie where there wasnt a great deal to do, but it was just a resting point for us on our way to sydney.
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