OK, trust me when I say that I just spent at least 20 minutes writing a lenghty and detailed description of my time in Sydney. This is the point at which the computer decides to crash, which means you're all getting this instead. I'm going to have to be brief here, because my money is quickly running out. Sydney, in a word, was fantastic. I was there for four days, and they were great. It was the perfect way to finish my time in Australia. I climbed the Bridge, a...

The last couple of days have been spent at the very laid-back Byron Bay. I got here on Wednesday - travelling from Brisbane, and checked myself into Main Beach Backpackers for two nights. I've done a couple of dives with Sundive, one yesterday and one today. They were a lot of fun, and quite different from up North. Firstly, visibilty was only about 5 metres, which is poor, the water was marginally colder (20oC), and there was a different type of marine life. A w...