Byron Bay to Newcastle

We had a fun surfing lesson with an eccentric Aussie called terry, who kept going on about cricket, but we didn't really no wat he was on about as we don't follow cricket that much! By the end all three of us could stand on the board on the small waves so that was gd.

That evening we had some yummy fish and chips by the beach. The next day we went to the most easternly point of Australia, cape byron. We saw turtles and dolphins from the cliffs which wer cool, we then went for a body board and swam our to this ship wreck which i jumped off (don't worry mum, it was safe).

The next day we headed south again, we managed to buy this camper book of this guy next to us at byron with loads of free camp sites in so we decided to head to these. stopping off at a few places along the way: Nimbin (a hippy village) Ballina, Grafton, until we reached a nice camp site in a national park called red rock. We saws kangaroos in the wild and watched the sunset.

The next morning we went to woolgoolga were we went for a body board, we then went to coffs harbour were we went for a little walk round the headland. We stayed the night in a free rest stop just of the highway south of coffs harbour.

It was very wet in the morning, we drove to port maquire, and the further south to the great lakes. We stopped in taree and then forster were we had a swimj in the pool by the sea in a got between showers. We stopped in a free site of the road again.

In the morning we went to a tourist info centre and found out about these massive sand dune dessert thing, so we decided to go there, we had to go over a river on a ferry which was exciting, we then got out body boards and did some sand surfing / jumping / rolling and got some cool pics. We then headed to hawks nest which had a nice beach, we had a good body board, the waves wer massive and very strong, so that was gd.

This morning we woke up in the rain, packed up and headed to Newcastle and found some free Internet in a library! I think we may go and watch a film in a bit as the weather still isn't that great. I think we are in the tail end of cyclone hamish which is hitting cairns at the mo!

And 2moro we head down to sydney for coldplay!! hopefully we will be able to find somewhere to stay!!

Hope everything is well wer you are (uk, holland, kenya, canada, new zealand etc!!!)

Josh