Beach Party

Great trip report from the eastern-most part of Australia:

Another day another set of pics. Two weeks ago we managed to escape the city of Brisbane with our host Michael to the little city of Byron Bay. Byron Bay is located on the farthest East point of Australia. Its a small town where everyone I think surfs and if you don't your kinda like an outcast of somesort. I tried surfing thinking it was going to be like skiing but its nothing like it, I sucked at it but enjoyed floating on the board. We stayed in a Hostel while we were down here which was a lot of fun. The three of just just read, relaxed on the beach, and swam in the ocean the whole time, which is funny cause down here its winter right now so all the locals think the water is freezing but really its like a luke warm bath. I went swimming one morning around 6:30 because I could. Oh yeah...how could I forget...me and Jen also went scuba diving twice while were down here. This being our first dives without the presence of an instructor made us a little nervous at first but after being in the water where its freaking freezing and you can see more then 2 feet we had tons of fun. On one dive we were able to lay on the ocean floor within 2 meters of a shark just hovering on the bottom. Some of the sharks we saw were up to 6-7 feet in length! It was a good trip, and they had this sweet bakery called "Brumby's" which makes an amazing blue berry muffin. Lots of rambling...enjoy!

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