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The Bus journey took us 12 hours up the NSW coastline, I woke up early to the beautiful horizon at Coffs Harbour, the colours of the sunrise was just like a painting! A few hours later we stopped off at a service station for the drivers to swap, and for us to have some breakfast, right across the road from the service station was an open field with morning mist, and Kangaroos frolicking!! Cute!
A few hours later, A total of 12 hours travelling, we made it to destination #1 after Sydney: Byron Bay. The minute we stepped off the bus, I loved the place, its definitely a beach town, but not pretentious or surfclub at all!! Its really quaint and pretty, all the shops are to cater for the tourists but just so cute!! We made it to the HOSTEL we were staying in, our first and only hostel of the east coast trip.. Our room wasn't ready to check into yet, so we sat in the lobby area for an hour, made some lunch using the hostels kitchen, then asked if our room was ready, the guy behind reception checked, and the room was ready... AND, had given us a free upgrade!! So we were expecting to be in a 4 man dorm, we were now in our own private double room, with en suite, TV and fridge!! AMAZING!! We were sooo pleased! So we got to the room, threw all our clothes out of our bag, donned our swimmers, and hit the beach!!
HEAVEN.
The beach was only a few steps away from the hostel. And its the nicest beach weve been to in Australia so far! On the right hand side of the beach you can see the most easterly point in the whole of Australia, and the Cape Byron Lighthouse, then to your left in the distance you can see hills and mountains, its just so pretty! The sand is so fine your feet squeak against it as you walk. And the sea, the waves are over 6 foot high, but you can be 10 - 20 metres out in the sea, and still be up to your ankles in water!! The waves crash into you and knock you over, so we spent the rest of the afternoon being beaten up by the waves, it was so much fun!! And this is the first time Luke has been in the sea in Australia!! Unbelievable! This day, has been one of my happiest days in Australia, its just been perfect, the sun has been shining, there has been no stress, no clock watching, weve done everything in our own time and just had fun! After dinner we headed back to our room and crashed, we fell asleep and didn't wake up until 10am the next morning.
The next day we did everything at a slow pace, we intended to take a walk around the cape Byron Reserve to the lighthouse, but the minute we stepped out of the hostel, we knew we were going to burn, so decided to hit the beach instead! We did the same as yesterday and had a 2nd round with the waves, I lost my sunglasses to the surf so got out of the waves for the big boys, and just sat in the baby waves, we spent all morning in the water again. Happy Days!
In the afternoon,when the sun wasn't at its strongest we took a stroll over to the lighthouse, what I thought would be a 10 minute walk, ended up taking over an hour each way. No worries though, it was a nice stroll through the woodland, we saw Tallows beach, which is on the other side of Byron to where we've been staying & much quieter. Then up to the top to the lighthouse. It was beautiful! Well the lighthouse was just a lighthouse, but the views out to sea were awesome!! If you look to the right you could see land, and to the left you could see land, so we thought we were being conned by being at the "most easterly point" of Australia, but luckily we found a compass on the floor, and measuring the horizon with this compass confirmed that we were the most easterly people on the whole continent!! Score!! Also this huge ugly blue tongued lizard was scuttling along the floor, we thought it was a snake first, then an injured lizard, then realised it was just a lizard with tiny legs!!! And it was hissing like a good'en! So wasn't sure if we were in any danger or not!?!? I suppose, thats what you get for being in the wilderness?
Our couple of days in Byron Bay has been refreshing and just so much fun, and relaxed! I love the place, and wish we had more time here!! Anyway its back on the road again, heading up the coast to Queensland now, next stop Surfers Paradise!!
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