Days 45 -53 Byron bay is a bit of a blur...

As I've said Byron is a bit of a blur as we spent so long there and there are various moments that I'm unable to recall due to copious amounts of alcohol and being too hot! So due to this I'm not going to do it day by day, I'm just going to do it in one big blob...

So we set off from surfers paradise early in the morning, I don't think I've ever been so happy to leave a place... It's only an hour and a half trip down to Byron bay from here although there is an inexplicable hours time difference between Queensland and New South Wales due to daylight savings, so this adds another hour to the journey! We arrive at Byron bay and are instantly 100 times happier than we were in surfers!
The place is just so much more chilled and mellow, much nicer atmosphere. Our hostel is in a decent location in town, close to everything like bars and the beach... We're in a 16 bed dorm which is the biggest one I've had to date, I've heard of bigger ones about but am yet to experience one! It's crowded and there's people's crap everywhere, but it's air conditioned which helps massively in the sweltering heat!
We meet robbie and joe on the beach in the afternoon, (they've slept there the night before as they've no money after their car debacle, this becomes a recurring theme in Byron) After a day doing not a lot but thoroughly enjoying the beach and the pub we have a bit of a boozy night! The next day Steph and Stef arrive from Brisbane, as does Jasmine and cathy whom we met on Fraser and we all have a day doing not a lot, just chilling, which is exactly what we came to Byron to do! The day after much the same happens... The day after this however we head to nimbin on the 'happy bus' which is a clapped out old bus with a mental driver! How do describe nimbin... HIPPIES and drug dealers about sums it up, there are various shops and things selling cannabis paraphernalia. We've all decided that its a 'when in Rome' moment and decide to buy a few 'cookies' these are cookies with a bit of weed baked into them, it's pointless sugar coating this part as its pretty obvious from the photos of the place what we've done... There was one strange thing we saw on the way back from nimbin that's just popped into my head, we drove past the school that Julian assange (wikileaks founder) went to... Or was it his old house...? Anyway it was associated with him!
Anyway we all enjoyed our day out to nimbin, for obvious reasons...

After a few days in our 16 bed dorm we've decided that the room is too busy and even the air con in this heat is not enough to keep us in there so we all move to separate smaller rooms... Im in a room with robbie and joe as luck would have it (they've moved off the beach...), In retrospect this wasn't our smartest of moves, the smaller rooms don't have air con and the temperature in Byron only gets hotter as we go on and I wake up covered in sweat every morning from now on...

Much of the rest of our time in Byron involves going to the beach, body boarding, having falafels, kebabs, getting drunk and going out clubbing! Steph and I do however do kayaking with dolphins on one day which is pretty fun, I was rather uncomfortable the entire way through but hey ho we saw a turtle and some dolphins!

Our last day in Byron is a horrible one as far as the weather goes, which is a bit of a shame since it was amazing if not a bit too hot the whole time we were there! We have the full day there as our bus doesn't leave until late at night as its a night bus... 14 hours to Sydney! Yay!

Thanks for reading! Sorry this one is a bit haphazard...

Will