So yesterday we went on a day trip to a small town called Nimbin. In the sixties a group of hippies travelling back from protesting about the Vietnam war in Brisbane stumbled across a near abandoned town in the hills, were a population of dairy farmers had been forced to sell up and move out almost over night by the government. The hippies bought the cheap land and settled in a commune, selling pot to the locals to put their kids through school. The town's reputation for drugs quickly grew and by the late eighties a swarm of hard core drug dealers had settled in from Sydney and were causing havoc getting all the locals addicted to meth, cocaine and pretty much anything else. The locals were angry and the small police station was overwhelmed and could do nothing to touch these dealers.

In the late eighties therefore, after a local protest, the police made a deal with the locals that if they could get all the dealers out within two weeks, the hippies would be allowed to deal pot, still strictly illegally, but the police would turn a blind eye. Within two weeks the dealers where gone and so was left this hill side town where pot is easy to get hold of and the notion of the summer of love lives on.

The place was awesome to visit, with the local museum comprising solely of crap collected off the streets in the past twenty years. After an hour of being there, we had literally been to every shop and even had time for a pint of shandy so we headed off to a local waterfall. It was absolutely bucketing it down and freezing, we left our clothes on the bus and trampled down this long treck in our swimmers to this lovely waterfall. The boys all jumped off the rocks whilst myself, and fellow brit Jennie, got completely soaked just standing on the edge. We warmed up over a bbq before heading back to Byron.

Today, I've booked my overnight bus back to Sydney which leaves here at 4.30 pm and gets to Sydney at 6am!! Thankfully my friend, Ash, said i could crash at hers and have a shower before we spend the day at Bondi and then I'm meeting Mel to stay at hers!