Byron Bay
We've now continued up, to the town of Byron
Bay. There's a couple of beautiful beaches, and a lighthouse on Cape
Byron, the most easterly point of Australia. On our trip 10 years ago,
this was the first stop we made on our trip north on the bus, after
an overnight trip from Sydney. Then it was a surfers hippy hangout,
with a bit of a backpacker scene. Now, its the same but on steroids
- you can't move down the street for the surfing dudes and hippies wandering
around, and the backpackers tossing a few tinnies down their necks.
So it's not really what we remembered, nor a great family oriented place
- we've found a campsite about 5km south of town, on a long, white sand
beach, and we'll stay there to avoid the crowds in town!
Today
was an official ‘beach day’ in the Fleming family. The campsite at Suffolk
Park is right alongside the beach, with a short path leading across
the dunes. All morning, the girls ran around the beach, and jumped waves,
until they were well and truly exhausted. Then we dragged them reluctantly
back to the camper, to have lunch and for Charlotte to have her maths
lesson, before we went back down the beach at 4pm, by which time the
tide had turned back and the girls were jumping big waves. They both
loved it, and Charlotte didn’t want to go back in before sunset, despite
her shivering and blue lips!