O dear me. Last day in Byron was cloudy so gave the lighthouse walk a miss, wandered around, sent some things home and planned to go out to cheeky monkeys with Madeline, a really nice german girl who was in my room. Ready and on the goon when all of byron and ballina had a powercut, plunging us all into complete goon-filled darkness and silence..finsihed our big night out with a cuppa and a giggle in the hostel then off to bed.

What can I say about Coffs harbour...GR..met 2 Irish girls on the coach so when we arrived at coffs everyone was given their places on minibuses to take them to their hostels...except me who had to rag my bag down the street to plantation, the crappest, biggest, horriblest, unfriendliest, backpackers/empty hotel i'd been in yet. I was one of 4 guests, the others being 3 locals who stayed in watching horror films all day and all night and didn't respond to me being there at all..weird and completely scary!

Went down to the town to explore and was finished in about 10 minutes! Not feeling it here at all...went down to an ex services club, read my book, had a few drinks and back to bed to stay wide awake all night reading and being scared...up and to jetty beach, to a cafe for a drink and to the girls hostel to meet my travel buddies for the massive coach trip, went for a few drinks for the journey and onto our overnight bus journey...