Aussie Pictures: Byron Bay

This is my little cottage that I stayed in in Byron Bay with two other girls. I had picked up this sarong in Fiji, the hat in Sydney, and the sunnies in Byron Bay, and when we put them all together we joked that I looked like I fell out of Hollywood or something. We had to take a picture.

On our first night, we went to dinner at a local restaurant / bar that had live music. On this particular night, it was a guy who sang, played the guitar, and played the didgeridu (that long bamboo looking thing to his right in the picture). The didgeridu is a traditional aboriginal musical instrument that is made by letting termites hollow out a specific kind of wood and then adding some wax to create a sort of mouthpiece. Different sizes and thicknesses and wax types make different notes and sounds.

The beach at Byron Bay. It was a really nice beach, but the waves and currents were a lot stronger than in Sydney. Boogie boarding was kind of crazy, what with us getting thrown around everywhere, and the people who learned to surf here definitely had some big waves to deal with.

This is a pretty self explanatory picture. Actually, it is the continuous most easterly point of the Australian mainland. I think there is a point where during low tide you can walk further east, but this is the most easterly most of the time.

We hung around here for a long time watching the waves crash and taking pictures of the changing patterns of the sun on the water.

When we first walked down to the water, it was raining, but by the time we had gotten out of the tree cover it had stopped raining. There were still some dark clouds around, and it was raining off in the distance over the water, but these things only made for more interestin pictures.

Stacey and I both tried to work around our time delays on our cameras to take pictures of the waves crashing, but this was the best that I got. There were some spectacular crashings, though.