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Published: November 5th 2012
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(sorry for the delays, but we do not forget you!!)
Already half of Erwan´s time is done now. And It is also the moment for our two adventurers to go each one on his own way. So Erwan will continue to publish on this blog and start to write with I. Loup will do an other blog. We separate for a while and might join again somewhere between Melbourne and Adelaide before I fly back to France.
So while Loup is staying at Caboolture to continue working a bit and working on the van, and waiting for a friend of him joining soon, I took the road to reach Sydney. Indeed, I had a flight to catch the 3
rd of October for New-Zealand! I am really looking forward to fly there since it is one of my small dreams.
Anyway, there was all the road to do to hit Sydney with some famous locations like Surfers Paradise and Byron Bay.
To start this trip I was lucky that Valentin was visiting a friend in Surfers Paradise, so he could drive me there and I could find a couchsurfing place there. I
finally ended up being invited to his friend place as well. His friend was there for the weekend to her parents´ place. We were really lucky because they were all really nice and friendly and welcoming, and because they have a quite pretty house. It is a Chinese family so we ate really good Chinese food the whole weekend, got invited in a restaurant. We tried surfing one morning, then walk alog the beach. We stopped at a cafe for lunch with view on the ocean and saw a whale jumping, that was amazing! Visited a cave where glow-worms can be found (we saw some but was not dark enough). To put it in a nutshell, that was an amazing weekend! And came the moment when I had to say goodbye to Valentin and her friend CJ, and find my next couchsurfing place, and thought about how to get to Sydney.
There I was lucky again. I found a “5 stars couchsurfing place”. It was at a gay couple living in a flat in a building near the beach with view on the beach and the city. Swimming pool, gym, sauna were available for free. And the
hosts were really nice people, joking all the time, really taking care. They drove us for a tour, payed us some dinner. A Swedish guy was already there, really nice as well. We played tennis, and when we went in the sauna, I felt like “at home”: speaking Norwegian in a sauna, how could I imagine myself being in Australia at that precise moment 😊
I finally found a relocation from Byron Bay to Sydney. So went to Byron bay, get the car, I must say the big campervan! I did not know it was that big, but it will do, no worries!
Spend one afternoon and one morning in Byron. I decided to woke up early and walked to the beach to see the sunrise. That was really worth it indeed! I went to the lighthouse where it is a bit higher so it offers a good sight. And there, while the sun was rising, dozens of whales were on their way along the coast, that was amazing!! some of them jumps, some others passed really close to the surfers. Then a saw a group of dolphins. I tried to follow them so
I walked along the coast until a beach where many surfers were enjoying the waves. And then I saw what I though was “fake” picture... I saw the dolphins starting to surf the waves and jumped, that was awesome!!! Two of them even ended up in the middle of the surfers, that was crazy. (I will soon put the video of part of it).
After Byron, there was not that much to see. So I did no stop that much on the road. Only some lookout, or beach for the lunch and “sunrised breakfast”.
Finally reached Sydney where I had a place to sleep, couchsurfing again. The guy was really nice. Told me good things to do and see in Sydney, cheap places to eat good food...So for my first evening I had a welcome fireworks in Darling Harbour. I met there some German and spend couple of hours with them after. Then I tried a salsa place but that was not as good as I expected. The day after went to Bondi beach and spend a chilling afternoon there. There were a tango festival/workshop but I did not manage to participate in any
classes unfortunately. The next day I went into the city, visited parks, opera house, bridge. The next day I took the ferry and went for a long walk from Manly (suburbs of Sydney). I saw the most crazy business school I have ever seen, a castle with park, tennis courts, and all the students dressed up like there was an international conference. Then basically walked along the coast, with bushes, beaches, roads, big lezard, sea-stars.
And it was time to go to ….New-Zealand!!!
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