Weds 22nd - Fri 24th July - Goon, Point Danger and Bus Chaos!

MISSED INFO: (some stuff I forget to put in - must be all the drinking!)

Monday 20th July:

Our first night in Byron Bay in the Art Factory Hostel. When we got back from having our noodles we found there was an open mic night. We sat outside under the stars on picnic benches and people (mainly hippies) played guitars and sang. We drank some beers and listened, was really nice. The atmousphere really summed up Byron and then laid back friendly hostel we were in.

Tuesday 21st July:

After our Pictionary game and cider. There was a man who works at the hostel (Cockatoo Paul - little plait out the back of his hair with 2 big white feathers attached), selling opals. He had all kinds from big expensive rare ones to ones with hundreds of glittering colours. He mostly had dark ones with flashes of colour in the light. But I spotted a little white one, it was just like the one from nannies ring, appart from it was smaller and in an almost smooth shark tooth shape. It was $80 but I fell in love with it, I had to have it. He also gave me a small round version of the stone too, I think as I was questioning buying for quite a while and he could sense I was a pauper! I will get the bigger stone made into a ring back home and the smaller one im not sure what to do with!

Photo of Byron Bay I took with big camera but didnt put on before

Back to normal blog:

Wednesday 22nd July

After our walk up the lighthouse, our pasta dinner and starting on the 'Goon' (cheap boxed wine). I wrote my blog - mug of goon in hand! Then we saw our Pictionary buddys from the night before. We got some drinking games going, and it was really funny! Altho the goon was disgusting and tasted of feet! We even got shushed at one point because we got so caught up in the game we were screaming! We were playing 21's and couldnt get to 21!! After a while we decided to go out, me and Rach randomly couldn't find Lil! We found her...curled up around the toilet bowl! We still don't know how she got quite so affected by the goon compared to us! We think becasue she was still a bit ill and hadnt had a big drink for a while it just disagreed with her....quite badly! She told us to still go out and that she would crawl into bed in a bit. I felt very guilty but there was nothing we could do, she told us to go so we grabbed our bags. The other were holding the shuttle bus for us and then...I managed to lock my locker key inside the locker...doh! Luckily Tyler (from Tennessee) went and grabbed some scissors and prised it open! Then we were off on the shuttle into town. We went to Cheeky Monkeys, a strange bar which is all about dancing on tables! There is no dancefloor, just 3 rows of like metal picnic benches - which you have to dance on! People had to give each other hands to get up and there was only a small galley to get through to the bar! But it was a good night, me and rach danced away with our new pictionary friends! They played a good range of music, altho I nearly fell off the table several times! We then walked back with Sam, Tyler and Brian, getting a pie on the way! Was really good night, when we got back Lil was tucked up in bed snoring away!

Photo of Lighthouse taken with big camera

Me with a mug of goon!

Me and Rach with some of our Pictionary Pals

Me and Rach in Cheeky Monkeys with some stolen hats!

Thursday 23rd July

We got up with very heavy heads! Lil had to have a cold shower as she was still dizzy - nutter! We then gathered up our stuff and dragged ourselves downstairs, I had a bit of toast and we chatted to some people. We then got on the shuttle into the town and jumped on our coach to Coolangatta. Coolangatta is a nice town, it's a bit like Surfers Paradise but more for families and oldies (no offence readers!). We walked around the town a bit, got some hangover food and sat on the beach. Rach had seen whales before from Point Danger, we walked up there but no luck! That night we cooked jacket potatoes - I managed to find some 'English Version' baked beans! Others were beans in Ham sauce or Spaghetti sauce - urgh! The receptionist told us there was an R n B night but we just groaned at her! We had showers, read books and went to sleep! It was a weird hostel - Gold Sands Hotel. There was a hotel bit and a backpackers bit - it was cold, long beige hallways and no atmousphere - we were glad we were only there for a night! Only saw 3 people!


Friday 24th July

We got up and headed to the bus stop. We had a stop over in Brisbane, but were just prepared for a travel day - it would take about 5 hours in all to get to Noosa. Unfortunately when we got to Brisbane, we wandered off and got a wrap for lunch, only to realise the time was 2:05pm, the bus left at 2! We legged it up the escalators, me chucking my half eaten wrap in the bin on route! We got to the desk and 'It's gone' say the toure operator. We all gape out of the glass doors at the missing bus, which had all our backpacks on...crap! Luckily the bus driver who drove us was still there, he managed to get us onto another bus for free but we were still missing 3 very large backpacks! Luckily we were going to stay with Lil's family friends - Dave and Jill, Dave very kindly went and waited for the bus with our luggage on! What a drama! He then picked us up from the bus stop and brought us back to the house! Reunited with our bags and over the panic we were then given a massive dinner - lovely! Like roast dinner but cooked on the barbie!
What a day! I then took advantage of the free internet and thought I would catch up the blog!

Hopefully not as much drama over the next few days! In Noosa until tuesday and then we are hoping to do a Fraser Island 3 day tour! Will write again soon! H x