Blogs from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 81

We got the overnight bus to Byron Bay from Newcastle. Byron has very nice beaches and loads of activities on offer. It has a slightly resort like feel but remains pleasant place to be. We stayed in a couple of YHA's here for almost a week. We spent most days surfing including a lesson on the first day. Standing up was easy enough in the lesson on their big soft-ish learner boards and quite a bit harder ( though still achievable ) on the 'real' boards we hired after. We also spent a day cycling and walking and a morning on a tour to go Kayaking with the local dolphins. Guess how many dolphins we saw ? None, not a single chuffing dolphin. "Oh, we've seen loads" everyone else we met kept telling us, "and whales ... read more

(Gem writes...) We are in Byron Bay at the moment, we have been here for two days. Before that we were in Brisbane for 2 nights which was just a time for r and r and to sort out and book activities for the next few weeks on the East coast. Anyway, this blog is all about the previous week before we arrived in Brisbane, we spent a week in the Red Centre experiencing the Outback. On the monday we flew from Adelaide to Alice Springs. We stayed at a hostel called Annie's Place and just spent the first day getting used to the heat and getting ready for our 3 day tour on the tuesday. We had a good look around Alice Springs, an interesting little town with a large aboriginal community, which you don't ... read more

Just back from a great 2 day trip to Byron Bay. We set off early on Saturday morning from Brisvegas and arrived in Byron in less that 2 hours which was a bit quicker than I thought. It was straight up to the top of the hill at the end of the town to the famous lighthouse. The lighthouse is located on a headland that juts out from the cost to make it the most Easterly point in Australia. Such a location called for a picture surely………which is when Ruth realised that although she had brought the camera, she had forgotten the memory card!!! Therefore the pictures here are ones that I have 'borrowed' from fellow travellers ! From the lofty position of the headland we spotted humpback whales out to sea, and also a group ... read more

We been in chilled-out Byron Bay since Thursday enjoying the hot weather (we're nearly in Queensland), fantastic beaches and rediscovering Mexican food. The most amazing thing happened yesterday (Saturday). There's a rock festival on this weekend (it sold out months ago so we couldn't get tickets) called "Splendour in the grass" but everyone else was there so we were on a pretty much deserted beach all day. As the sun started to go down we set off up the beach for a walk (spotting skinny-dipping nudists along the way but that's a different story) and then... Tim: "Look who that is" Emma: "Oh my god" Tim: "It's not is it?" Emma: "Oh my god" Tim: "No it'll just be some random Aussie guy" Emma: "Oh my god" Tim: "Go and ask him" Emma: "Oh my god" ... read more

Well moved on from Sydney leaving Tom, Jo and Adam behind and took an over night bus to Byron bay. My god overnight buses are hard to sleep in.... don't actually think got much sleep at all. The beach here is wicked and getting a tan finally! Sea is really warm... not gonna do surfing cause know i'll be bad at it. Diving is my next mission but that'll prob wait till get to Brisbane. Byron is a little town all about surfing, sunbathing and teenagers pulling everybody. Seriously its a meat market here full of 18/19 year olds who have too many hormones and therefore the night life suits.... they had stripping competition on the bar last night, tacky to say the least. Besides them you have your surfers who love themselves too much, beach ... read more