Our longest bus journey in OZ, 10 hours, nothing compared to the 12 hour hell rides of Asia though. We crossed the Harbour Bridge and were in the capital around 8pm. We had planned to stay in the Kings Cross area, but we had been told a few dodgy things about it and it also meant getting a train, from where we got dropped off, to the hostel. So we decided to stay in the same hostel as some girls we had met at Spot X, who happened to be on the same bus as us. Ther...

Only 40 minutes from Spot X and we were in Coff's Harbour. We had booked a couple of nights at the Hoey Moey. It was a strange hostel attached to a pub; in fact the whole town was a little strange. There was loads of motels with no one staying in them. It must of been popular at one point but now it all looks a little run down. We ended up staying 3 nights due to the ease of bus times to Sydney but we didn't do a great deal as there wasn't much to do....

A short trip south we came to a place called Spot X. I'm not sure what the proper name of the place is but all there is there the surf school. We got a free surf lesson through the Oz Experience bus and all we had to pay was $55 each for a nights accomadation and three meals. The weather was terrible and never stopped raining but it didn't matter because we were getting wet anyway. When we got down to the beach there were hundreds of dead mullet on the sa...

So back to Byron and the Arts Factory, only for a day this time though. We set off from Paul's around 11am and got back into Byron about 2pm. The first job was washing our clothes then washing ourselves: a hot shower has never felt so good! I think we used more water in that one shower than we had that previous 2 weeks! That night was talent night hosted by Paul, so after an awesome meal at the Buddha Bar we went and watched that. We got a name check and a th...

We all met in the Arts Factory car park at 9am Friday morning, excited and ready for some adventure. Joining us on the trip were two Dutch guys (Matty and Florien) and an Aussie girl (Jessie). We all jumped in Paul's beaten up land cruiser with Mr Pickles sat on the back of the drivers seat and headed out. Along the way Paul was pointing out different things, like where the best place would be to find water and how the landscape tells you where the water will...