Red Sea at Night

Bays, views and bohemian nights

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June 14th 2009
Byron Bay is home to around 1.7 million backpackers during the year, not all at once of course, that would be silly. Just a few hours down the coast from Surfer's Paradise, Byron might as well be on a different continent. The contrast is startling, where Surfer's is high rise and tacky, Byron has a lighthouse and a shuttle bus to Nimbin, Nimbin being the unofficial drug capital of Austr ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more