Change of Plans

The beauty of the way we are traveling is that we can change our plans as we see fit. Leaving SFO with a one way ticket to New Zealand as our only purchase, we have had the freedom to make decisions as we go. Our first major change occurred this week when we scrapped our original plan of renting an RV and driving up the east coast of Australia to take the OZ Experience bus. We bought a 30 day pass that will drive us up the coast and drop us in the places we want to go. We can stay as long or as little as we like in each place and by doing so we will save a couple thousand dollars by not doing the RV (not to mention our sanity!).
So...Monday morning we hopped on our bus at 6:15am for our 13 hour drive up to Byron Bay. We arrived in town that night and were pretty wiped out from the drive, so we cooked dinner at our hostel and hung out with the people there. The next morning we woke up and took a walk to the lighthouse. Along the way we saw more dolphins playing in the surf along with a bunch of surfers.

Along the path we came to the eastern most point in Australia.

We have been unlucky with the weather and this morning was no exception. It started raining while we were on our way to the lighthouse, which was ok because we arrived to see this...

We attempted to spend the day at the beach but it rained. We spent about an hour playing in the waves in the rain but then the surf got a bit rough so we headed back and spent the rest of the day with the folks at the hostel. This morning we woke and headed to Surfer's Paradise in an attempt to chase the sun. No such luck yet though.

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Location:Byron Bay