Byron Bay

Got back into Sydney on Saturday and met Mike on his last day of work so that we could go to the flea market to get cheap luggage to store our extra stuff at the Blooms whilst we prepared to travel up the coast. The plan was to stay in our flat for saturday night and then sunday night and leave early monday morning to head up for Byron Bay. I don't know what Mike was up to while I was gone but that night we found our walls with at least 40 bed bugs so we dragged our beds into the middle of the room and I barely slept all night, constantly in fear of being attacked. The next morning we called greyhound and found a bus heading up that night so we signed up. First picture is Mike, Fabien (new french roomie) and myself on our last night in Bondi.

The next day we actually managed to catch a rugby union game. First rugby that I have seen and I still think its pretty stupid but we managed to sneak down to good seats in the home team's section, so that was good times. After that packed up our bags and got out of our infested room and just made the bus by about 10 minutes. It was a 13 hour bus ride through the night, which is a great idea if you can fall asleep on a bus...Once again Mike didn't seem to have to much trouble, but I am running on 2 hours of sleep right now.

Got into Byron in the morning and found a hostel which is a 1 minute walk to the beach. The beach is huge and makes the sydney beaches look like Toronto beaches. The surf at Byron is incredible because the waves start to break at the tip of the bay and follow the coastline in. So if you get a good wave you can have a 100 - 200 m ride for about 2 minutes and then it just drops you off near the beach and you can walk around and do it again. Im sure that our surfing is going to improve so much while we are here. As of now the plan is to stay around here for about 10 days and surf as much as we can because north of here the great barrier reef blocks out the surf and there are deadly jellyfish and sharks... Other than that it has just been a day here but the town is supposed to be a quiet little beach town with a hippy vibe with tons of backpackers...sounds good to me. Second picture is just a usual candid mike moment on the beach at byron.