Blogs from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 11

As we woke up this morning the sun was shining but there was rain predicted for later in the day although the guys working at the hostel seemed confident that they always predict rain but it's nearly always wrong, so on the basis we booked up a kayaking tour for the following day and walked into town. We walked down on to the beach from our hostel and then made the 15 minute walk along the beach watching the brave surfers out in the sea as the storm clouds came closer and the waves were getting bigger. When we were 5 minutes from town the clouds did open and the rain spurred us on to walk a bit faster and take refuge in the hogs breath cafe for an early lunch whilst ... read more

Byron was a surfing crazy town, it had an amazing beach and fantastic weather. Perfect reciepe for riding some waves. We didnt! Instead we chilled and topped up our tans. We headed to the Gold Coast to enjoy the theme parks. They were so much fun and we managed to keep our dinner down! Paul wasnt too impressed being dragged around the water rides and screamed like a girl on the first ride because he was too cold (it is winter here!) After that I had to drag him away though. . . so much fun.... read more

La Pacific Highway est très fréquentée et à 5h30 nous sommes bien réveillés, du coup on décolle aussi sec. On s’arrête vers 7h à une aire de repos pour le petit déj’ et on arrive à Byron Bay une heure plus tard. Depuis qu’on est parti la veille de Port Macquarie on a fait 400km ! Ca faisait longtemps qu’on n’avait pas autant roulé. Nous voilà donc à Byron Bay, qui est un village très touristique, connu pour ses spots de surf, la fête et son style de vie décontracté. On part aussitôt faire la marche le long de la côte qui mène au phare, la Cape Byron Walking Track. La marche n’est pas très longue, mais ça grimpe et surtout il fait très chaud !! Le soleil tape, on sent que l’on se rapproche du ... read more

Geo: -28.6434, 153.612Die Nacht über hat uns der kleine Kater mit seinem Gemauze ganz gut auf Trapp gehalten und wir sind mehrfach aufgestanden um ihn ausfindig zu machen, allerdings ohne Glück. Um sieben bin ich so wach, dass ich aufstehe und den Vorhang weg mache und die Terassentür öffne. Die letzte halbe Stunde vor dem Aufstehen lauschen wir also den Vögeln und genießen den Blickauf die Veranda und den dahinter liegenden Fluss.Während des Frühstücks zeigt Crocodile uns ein paar Videos vom Campdraftig (das ist die Art Wettkampf, die er mit seinen Pferden reitet) und dann geht es raus zu den Pferden. Crocodile macht Smoking Acres und eine der Studten zum Ausritt fertig und kurz später sitze ich auf meiner Studte, Crocodile auf Smoking Acresund Janette läuft mit einem Eimer Futter in der Hand zu Miss Claudia ... read more

Arrived in Byron Bay on Sunday. We got to our hostel Holiday Village quite late and just wanted to go straight to sleep. We arrived with a girl called Jodie who had also been at Spot X and travelled on the same bus as us. In our room was an American guy who seemed really funny at first but was having drinks with two girls (who weren't actually staying in our room) in our room. They stayed for ages pre-drinking before they would go out, and he clearly loved to be the centre of attention entertaining everyone. But my amusement soon wore off as he would not shut up and they contemplated staying in even though they could see the rest of us were trying to sleep! Thankfully they all eventually went out and he didn't ... read more