So after finding it hard to get to Byron I found it even harder to leave. It is such a nice place, as a main stop on the East of Oz you may expect a butt load of crappy souvenir shops interspersed (spg?) with fast food chains. However, that is nowhere near the case, there were a couple of said crappy shops but not a fast food place in sight. It is a really nice town. The weather helped- normal service has resumed- wall to wall sunsine. Eventually i left, headed for surfers paradise. I hitched just a short way out towards the highway at first. Then after 6 or 7 minutes -and i shit you not- 2 cars pulled over simultaneously!!!(spg?). I couldn't believe it, but after checking which car was going the right way, i got a lift to within 5 km of surfers. I then met back up with Andre and we went camping on south stradbroke island for a few days. Sadly the surf didn't pick up much, but it was nice and chilled and we had the beach to ourselves. We then went back down the coast slightly to Mt Warning N.P. We climbed in the afternoon and then camped on the summit overnight to make the most of the sunset and rise. Was a really good night apart from the damn possum that stole my last sausage! And now here i am in Brisbane for 2 nights i think before heading up to go camping on fraser island. I seem to be getting good at writing short blogs- apologies, the next will be a cracker.
p.s more photos online today
p.p.s and even more tomorrow
xx Matt xx
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Glad you are having a bit of sunshine, Sue at work has a son in Aus and he was toboganning in the snow yesterday in Melbourne!! Seems we're not the only ones having crazy weather. Hope you like the B day 'card', have a good time. love Mum
Got the card thanks. am going camping on fraser island tomorrow so won't be online for a while. give my love to grandma and grandpa and mellyxxx
Hey Matt,
Happy Birthday!! Guess you won't get this for a while but will have a celebratory drink here in manc.
XXXXXX
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