The last stop on our whirlwind tour down the east coast of Australia was Sydney. It was to prove a bit of a culture shock for us after spending two weeks in the relaxed groove of east coast beach life and now found ourselves in a large, cosmopolitan, working city. In our shorts and flip flops we often felt incongruous in Sydney! We arrived early in the morning after the last of our 4 overnight Greyhound bus journeys and wasted no time in starting to explore the ...

We arrived in Byron Bay with our fingers crossed for some good weather. We had three days to spend here due in no small part to the fact that we hadn't hung around in the rain further north. We were also keen to spend at least a couple of days learning to surf in the fantastic breaks. Byron Bay itself is a lovely small town (one of Australia's best beach towns) set on a fabulous stretch of horseshoe shaped beach where the sand is soft and the waves are 'fully ...