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After our 13hour coach journey and crooked necks we arrived in Byron Bay fairly early. unfortunately we couldn't check in to our hostel untill 2pm though so we had a few ours to kill untill we could freshen up and sort put our bits. we put our luggage into storage and then had a wander around town. we also inverstigated potential trips that we could do, well for Candy more than me. We got prices for the Whitsundays / Fraser Island trip combo from our hotel and a couple of other agencies in the town. We also went to investigate what I could do about finishing off my padi qualification. And I have decided that the gods are actually against me on that one as apparently you can't dive at all as an asthmatic in Australia! How ruddy annoying! So anyway back to the trips and after working out the cost off accomodation that we have to spend anyway and the money that we spend on food it actually worked out really cost effective to do the trips. so even though I wasn't planning on seeing Fraiser Island and the whitsundays that is exactly what I am now doing. we have also managed to actually set ourselves a bit of an itinary of what we are doing up the East Coast. And to top it all of we also have free internet from now on as long as we can find a wicked travel outlet : ) So we had a really successfull morning and even managed to have a walk alson bthe beach before we checked in!
After checking in we spent the afternoon on the beach, reading and chilling out and then went to pick up our tickets from the travel place and then returned to the hostel to make ourselves some dinner. In the evening we weren't sure what we wanted to do as there didn't seem like there was much so we had a wander through town and then settled in the tv room and watchedthe latest fast and furious film.
The following day we spent at the beach in the morning and after lunch we returned again to the beach. We had a bit more of an entertaining evening as we didn't have much food left and as we were only just staying the one more night we didn't see much point in buying any so we went to this place called cheeky monkeys where they did $5 dinners. Candy got the burger, I decided to opt for the lasagne as I'm still not that keen on the idea of eating another burger after my food poisoning incident. i'm sure I'll crack one of these days but for now if i have another choice I am leaving them alone. We were both really suprised with the portions that they gave. I had chips and salad with my lasagne and it actually tasted really nice. And to top off the cheapness we also got free beer! Although we did end up buying some more as well, but we haven't had a night out together in ages so we thought sod it! Eventually the place turned into a bit of a club and played some fairly decent music. towards the end we did start to feel a little bit old though as the place was full of 19 / 20 year olds but nevermind.
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