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Today we were headed for Byron Bay, a famous hippie area known to all campers around Australia as a good place to pause for a while. On the way we were rewarded with two of Australia famous ‘big’ things. A big banana and a big prawn, apparently there are loads of thee huge random fibreglass structures all over Australia so we took the necessary tourist pics under them with our van.
We stopped at a place called Coffs Harbour for lunch and tried to cook our own food again, but the gas had run out of the cylinder last night when we cooked the rice so it was only half cooked and soggy, so lunch was a bit yuk. The harbour was lovely and we were just next to the beach, I dipped my toes in the water but it was way too cold for swimming still.
When we reached Byron bay we stopped at a shopping centre on the edge to buy ice for our ice box which was too warm so we thought we could put ice in it to keep things cool, and the cheapest bottle of wine in Woolworths. Woolworths over here is also Safeways so they have big food stores as well as the home stores like they have (or maybe had?) in the UK. The smallest bag of ice was huge but we managed to ram it into the bottom of our cool box and added the cheese, veggies, OJ and wine. When we got to Byron bay there was a car park that was free after 6pm so we waited until then and then got out of the van and walked around the bay. There were a load of drummers playing a cool samba gig that we watched and then some boys doing fire Diablo, fire poi and fire baton twirling and that looked great in the dark. The tide soon came in though and we drank our wine from the bottle in a brown paper bag! They always give you alcohol in brown paper here for some reason.
We were going to stay in the car park to camp but we met another couple of Wicked people, two young boys from London, and they said they had tried it last night but the car park rangers came and banged on the van to wake them and made them move. We opted for going a little out of the town and parking in a grassy layby in Bangalow, on the way to Nimbin a village the Wicked boys said we had to visit. 1875 kilometres at Coffs Harbour.
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