So we reached the promised land, but not for long and only just. A six hour bus journey from Surfers where we had to change at Brisbane and put up with an idiot of a driver! Well and we had the commotion of being told we wouldn't have a place to stay in Byron. Yeah right. After a lot of places messing us around and one saying they were full, we eventually ended up staying there. Honestly what a palaver and all this because of those bloody Schoolies!!!!!!
So we arrived and stayed at Nomads Odyssey - the solution to all Flash packer needs. Not quite but this Big Brother decorated hostel were sure kind enough and charged us practically nothing after messing up our booking once more putting us into a room with seven people instead of four! No nut jobs this time.
With time at a premium we managed to cram a hell of a lot of stuff in. We watched Michael Jackson - "This is it" at the cinema, awesome film but with the shitest of female guitar players! We had a great night out at Coco mangoes & Cheeky Monkeys where we drank Champagne (it was on offer) and beers until our hearts were content laughing and giggling at the supposed Mr & Mrs Backpacker. We had some great food out and even managed to visit the beach. It wasn't until the day after and the day of departure that we decided to risk walking to the Lighthouse!
Setting off early across the beach we initially had the desire to see Cape Byron. Built in 1901, the lighthouse was actually a lot further away than it seemed. We didn't actually manage to get all the way there due to time restraints but even so after seeing a few more lizards and possibly the biggest snake I've ever seen (not that I've seen many) we decided to head back home along the beach once more avoiding the ever mounting pills of dead jelly fish. Not so successful in terms of getting to our desired destination but an adventure well worth having.
It would have been nice to have stayed longer here as it is such a great place with such amazing beauty but as we fucked up with Bundaberg it didn't really work out. Nevertheless we did pretty much see most things, I just would have loved to have gone back to see those ever so Cheeky Monkeys once more.
Next stop Brisbane!
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