Blogs from Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

(J) So we spent about a week in darwin. it was hot, humid and monsoon'alishus , so much rain!!! we then bought a kick ass ride....nice 92 lexcen station wagon....pimp!!!! she was named betsy, it came stocked with campin gear and 3 coolers, all for beer...mmmmm Drove 3800 km...... very eventful!!!! from very green Darwin into the outback...check the pics's..outback...outback...outback.. outback.. GREEN! thats u's drivin into queensland from out of the dust filled centre of aus. car overheated only once....after we got to the coast... betsy's good now !! (S) And it's of course hot. 37 today so we are searching for some forest - water and shade!!! hope you enjoy the pics from our not so eventful, but still quite eventful for us trip inland and toward the coast. we're just outside of Brisbane now ... read more

This blog failed to publsh for some reason so I'm trying again. We're travelling slowly up the east coast trying to find some sun. Coff's Harbour was wet most of the time so we didn't see the best of it and went to the cinema and bowling to pas the time. I was as useless at bowling as I normally am; got one strike only, although twice I did manage to get all skittles down on the second ball having sent the first ball down the side channel. Kev beat me once, thrashed me twice and I beat him in the last game. On Sunday we moved onto Byron Bay via Grafton, a sleepy mainly 19th century town with an art gallery housing a pleasant restaurant. The rain held off till the afternoon so after setting ... read more

The Drive to Nimbin in itself was an adventurous one and we got lost too! It was just like driving the back roads through the Yorkshire Dales. So like I said in my last entry Nimbin is renowned for one thing….marijuana. It has to be one of the funniest places we have been to so far. I don’t think I spoke to one person that wasn’t stoned. Even a little boy of around 10 years old who asked us if we wanted to buy any looked stoned!! Ok Mum this is where you stop reading. Yeap we got stoned, well we bought it and took it away with us. There was no way I was driving those roads after smoking and we didn’t fancy spending the night, the place was too nuts. So we hit the ... read more

Nimbin.....let's see......Nimbin.....how to describe Nimbin........OK, picture Amsterdam but take away the buildings, waterways, red light district, nightclubs, hedonism, showers/sanitation/anything remotely clean and what are you left with??? You got it - pot. Nimbin is a wide spot in the road that hosted a hippy festival 30 years ago and I guess some people were too stoned to remember how to get home, so they just stayed. Today it exists for just two reasons: 1) to allow hippies/hobos to sleep in the streets while "championing" the great cause of legalizing marijuana use through their "creation" of "art" (i.e. getting stoned and fiddling with the garbage that cannot be removed from the town and putting a bunch of pro-weed slogans on t-shirts); and 2) to sell pot to tourists. So naturally I went. This town looks like ... read more

Following the late arrival I decided to take a day trip to Nimbin as I had been told in sydney that it is worth visiting. I booked the trip at 9:30 and the coach departed from the arts factory hostel at 10am. A full coach of 30. Nimbin is the hippy area of Aus. On the way up the bus driver Dougie played various types of music we stopped at a pub which was the only building in the village. We then went into Nimbin he advised us to take a look at the muesuem and if anyone was going to buy from the dealers if they heard a shout of taxi the deal would be stopped for a few minutes until the police drove by. A few of the dutch guys said they bought. It ... read more