Day 10 - A day in Byron Bay

Last night’s stay in Byron Bay was, most certainly, not worth the discounted price of $100 for our private room and accommodation would’ve been nicer if we’d camped out. We were in a shared facilities cabin thing and our room literally had; a bed, small desk with drawers, and a fan... Oh yeah, with the bonus prize of 2 cockroaches! Corrie was unimpressed to say the least and the jury’s still out as to whether or not she got any sleep.

We started the day (or maybe continued in Corrie’s case) by checking out of the dive and wandering up the road to find the shuttle bus to our accommodation for the next 2 nights (The Arts Factory.) This place seemed much better already as we were given free internet for an hour and decided to get some breakfast. The food seems good here and, as we were eating our food, we noticed the lizards (Eastern Water Dragons) roaming around the place… Needless to say Corrie was straight in her bag for the camera!

We were very tempted to make our own didgeridoos as they’ll show you how to do it here, but we’re not yet sure what we’d do with them after… probably would have to post them home.

We then checked in to our private tent room! This seems quite nice, well luxury compared to the previous hostel room! We didn’t hang around long as we wanted to venture out.

We decided to walk to the lighthouse which was a, supposedly, 2 hour walk to get there and back again. We got some supplies and headed out… 4kms later we reached the lighthouse: This was after a nice walk along the beach, followed by a not-so-nice walk up many steps! The views were worth it though and we’ve now been to the most easterly point of Australia. We couldn’t spot any dolphins or whales though, just more lizards.

We finished the day by going to a small café for a while to abuse the free internet, and then went across the road to get a box of noodles each – this was a good decision as the noodles were gorgeous! We then went back to our tent for the night!