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Hey Guys! Well i've left Sydney and had to bid farewell to all of the friends i had made during my time there Was especially sad saying goodbye to Jenna-i'll miss her company so much! Hopefully will get chance to meet up with some of the guys i shared a room with in sydney as they're travelling up the east coast also. And alison (the american i met in sydney) will be up in byron in a week or so! The last sunday i spent in sydney they closed the bridge and i had the chance to walk across the bridge-spent the evening down there watching the lightworks by the bridge with steve ( a guy i went to laser quest with in elbourne then randomly bumped into sun morning in the lift of my hostel) and a couple of others before heading to a nice bar on circular quay for a bit to eat and drink!
But at the moment i've just arrived in Byron Bay after my 5 day surf trip! and well lets just say i don't think i'll be completeing in any surfing championships just yet!!!! However i did manage to catch a few waves but did also spent alot of time nose-diving off my surfboard-but hey i guess it's all about practise! The company was alittle wild-was kinda hoping for a bit more a chilled out week after my week in Sydney but this was not to be the case. We arrived on the Monday and had our first surf session that afternoon (...and to be honest that was probabaly my best one!), every day we were then awoken @7.30am (!!) for a big breakfast before hitting the beach for our first surf session of the day for a couple of hours before returning for a big lunch. After lunch it was siesta time-everyone taking time to chill for a few hours before hitting the beach again at about 3/4pm for a couple of hours. Returning to get showered and changed for dinner and then it was down to the 'humpy' (a hut away from the camp- by the beach) to continue drinking (with some just chilling by the campfire, drinking, others playing drinking games and losing pieces of clothing (i was not involved in this!). Wed night was a night off and we ventured into the town of crescent head-heading to the pub for dinner and drinks-and then randomly ending up at a v. chaotic pool party!!!! Think the guys went abit mad...what with the boss man being away....there was alot of focus on getting drunk,eating lots, and the guys trying to cop off with the "sexy sweedes!"lol! Probabaly thought i was abit of a bore but i'd done all that in Sydney and last thing i wanted was to end up attempting to surf with a hangover-it was hard enough when i was sober! The beach (on most days there were only a couple of peopl on the beach apart from ourselves-was nice to just go down and sit on the beach quietly-just listening to the crashing of the waves and hearing nothing else!) and surf camp were lovely though and the weather was grand all week long (still trying to brush up on the ol' tan situation!). One afternoon jason took a few of us on a really nice walk up to the headland and down through the rainforest. Gave me a chance to see abit more of the area, as seemed a shame to come to such a lovely place and only see the surf camp and beach.
Had a interesting trip from Crescent head to Byron bay-the drive took about 5 hours and on the way we saw plently of lovely scenery and lots of kangaroos!!It was abit of a cosy ride with 7 of us along with our HUGE rucksacks in this truck, but the Jonnie was a great laugh-telling us stories of his weed taking, drinking, surfing etc. Whilst blasting out the likes of red hot chili peppers, jim hendrix, the beatles....! only thing was the creepy canadian bloke i had to sit within close proximity of!! The had a major panic as all the hostels in Byron bay were fully booked for the weekend...but finally managed to find a room @ Aquarius backpackers-which turned out to be a pretty gd hostel!! better than spending the night on the beach anyway!!
I've uploaded a few more piccies to keep you all from complaining.....don't worry i'll bore u all with them for hours once i get home!!!
Keep me updated with the goings on back @ home........
Hope you're all doing well and tkaig care of yourselves and the weather isn't tooo bad back there! :o)
Off to cheack out the beach.....got to get out of here the smell of really nice pizza is waffing through this place...
Love to you all
Tori xx
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