We stayed in Brisbane for a while longer then headed south, aiming for Sydney but knowing we wouldn’t make it in one go, so we just decided to stop wherever we see that looks decent. After driving for a little while we saw signs for Byron Bay and the Lonely Planet book said good things about it.  Great beaches full of surfers, and a really nice town with good nightlife. So we headed there.

We got there and saw some advert for holiday apartments right in the centre of town, we had a look at them and got one for a week, really cheap too. Must because its winter, off season.

The next 6 days we got solid rain, and pretty strong winds to make things really homely. So yeah, we got to see very little of Byron Bay, shame really, cos it really did sound nice.

We kept ourselves busy through the week by making little trips out, one of which was to a place called Nimbin. A few people we’d met previously had mentioned it, and told us to go. Apparently it’s a crazy hippy town. So we were expecting weird, but wow.

I mean, I’ve been to all these festivals, I’ve sort of grow accustomed to things, and can’t get surprised by things, but this was something else.

Imagine if you will, a bunch of hippies that usually live in caravans and mud huts or whatever, and they grouped together and built a town. That town would be nimbin. We were walking down the street, pretty much 20 meters from the police station (smallest house on the road, btw) and about 10 different people asked us to buy pot. There’s even a marijuana museum. Then you have your 90 year old hippy women painting mad tie dye patterns on plates and pots and stuff in the street, right in front of their houses.

It was a crazy place, we had planned to stay all day, but we lasted about 30 minutes before we bailed. Too freaky.

Anyhow, after our week in Byron, we left and headed father south, trying to drive through the storms. Eventually we got to Port McQuarie (I think that’s spelled right…) and got a few nights. It seems like a nice enough town, very quaint and ideallic. Like a retirement village.

We’re heading out tomorrow and gonna try and hit Sydney. Maybe not tho, depends on the how long we can be arsed to drive.

Hmm, sounds like the rain has caught us up. Awesome.