Stayed 3 days in Byron Bay as we liked the place so much. There are several small coves (as well as the long main beach) which we preferred - especially Wategos Beach where Roger decided to launch his career a cool surf dude and bravely took to the surf clutching his boogie board! He was the only male in the water over 6 who wasn't using a full-size board but hey you have to start somewhere and his antics amused the beach for some hours. He did improve but w...

Managed to make it through to Byron Bay today although the floods had closed the Pacific Highway in two places and forced us to detour. As a result we had plenty of time to listen to Aussie local radio and came to the conclusion that we had 2 options - we either chose a pop station where we listened to the same four records played endlessly or opted for a country and western station. Roger was initially keen to stick with the Country station in case we heard "...