Made it to the famous Byron Bay today. It’s a totally different vibe from anything that we’ve experience so far. Busy streets, bustling cafes, shops and expensive parking fees! That aside, it is another beautiful beach and despite the poor weather this morning, we still managed psych up enough to wriggle into our wet wetsuits Read more

To surf or not to surf… That was the question this morning. Sitting up in the headland looking down at the waves of Yamba main beach, it was overcast, windy, our wetsuits were soaking wet and the waves looked small. Ooooo… The indecision!… Then a surfer got in and suddenly, with a new sense of Read more

Well that was a wild night to be camping! We just about managed to keep the van watertight, and emerged this morning to be told that we just slept through a category one cyclone! All around camp were scenes of devistation; a destroyed tent was tangled in the trees behind us and a big branch Read more

The intention had been to wake up and go for a surf at Sawtell Beach this morning, but standing out on the headland, we could barely stand up in the wind! It was less a question of where to surf, more can we actually surf today? Out to sea, the water glistened under the blue Read more

During the course of our journey, we’ve met several people who’ve all recommended going for a surf at a place called ‘Crescent Head’. So today, we took the turn off the Pacific Highway, and went to see what was there…  It’s a beautiful kind of sleepy hollow, with a long beach next to a smaller Read more

After a bit of a tumble in the surf yesterday, that resulted in my board and head making a sudden and violent contact, it turned out that I’d cracked my surf board! Rats! Well, I guess it’s better that cracking my head. Luckily for me, there was a surf board shapers workshop a few minutes Read more