Byron Bay

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Byron Bay, a hippie village where people smoke more than just normal cigarettes and where mushrooms are used not just in cooking ...

Coming to the hostel Arts Factory was like a Cairns reunion, since there were lots of people doing fire poi here that I met in Cairns 😊
I had heard lots of good stuff about the hostel and it was nice except for the kitchen. The kitchen didn't have any pots so you had to go to the reception everytime you wanted to cook and give a $5 deposit and sometimes you had to queue for over 5 minutes just to get a pot 😞

The weather was quite cold some days and rainy so I had plenty of time to read The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan 😊

One night Toru and other people had organised a beach party with a fire show as well and I thought it would be just 10 or 15 people. To my surprise it was about 100 people there listening to the many drums and didgeridoos and watching the 10 people who were showing off their skills with fire- poi, staff, double staff, hulahoop, joggling, breating and Daisukes homemade JoMega-something. Perhaps the musicians had mixed up the beats because a thunderstorm came after an hour and the rain chased most people away.

Stayed at Arts Factory two weeks and learned some new Poi-tricks, hoolahoop and a little Contact Poi as well. Contact Poi looks like a crystal ball that you graciously move around or balance with your hands, finger tips, elbows and well ... all your body if you are really good 😊

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Photos

People like mushrooms in Byron Bay
This one is made of tree so non edible!

Sinter Klaus at Dutch X-mas already 5th of december
In Holland they have St Nicholas aka Sinter Klaus bringing kids presents already the 5th of december!

Byron Bay beach
Can also see the most eastern Australian point and the famous lighthouse

View outside my room
Pool, comfy chairs, sauna in the pink house, kitchen and library on the upper floor

Busy kitchen
Kitchen closed 21.30 and there were over 300 people at the hostel and there were only two kitchens.

Happiness of japanese money :)
Atsushi and Birthe with a japanese 10000 note which is worth about 100 dollars.

Toru showing the importance of safety before a fire show
While smoking and handling two mugs of kerosine!

Toru honing his skills at the usual practice place at the parking lot
With some casual spectators and the rest of the fire gang watching and waiting for their turn

Flower
by Kalle

Comments

[Magnus]

Pot
You're in a hippie village and have to wait five minutes for some pot!? What a disgrace ;)