When we booked our trips to Fraser Island and the Whitsundays the travel agent Wicked travel gave us vouchers for discounted accommodation and one of these was in Byron Bay. Great we thought it’s bound to be a really expensive hostel that lures you in on a discounted deal and then hikes their rates for extra nights, WRONG! When we arrived with high hopes they were soon dashed by the average looking hostel, before our hopes turned to horror when we saw the room and outside bathrooms. Our nights sleep was just as bad, I had only just fallen asleep when one bloke came into the dorm and woke me up with his smell alone before he fell straight to sleep and snored the night away.
Needless to say we cut our loss and moved to another hostel that morning that we had been highly recommended.
After all the accommodation dramas were over we started to look round Byron Bay itself. Much to our surprise we bumped into two guys that we had been on the pyramid tour with in Mexico, it’s strange how in five months of very different traveling, we both ended up in the same place.
Byron Bay has the most amazing beach and is a really nice little town but it reminded us both strongly of Newquay (just less tacky souvenir shops).
We decided to do the third most popular thing in Byron behind surfing and lying on the beach, walking up to the lighthouse (made famous by Home and Away as it’s the Summer bay lighthouse). On the map we had this looked quite an easy walk but it turned out to be a rather strenuous one considering the hot sunny weather. The view from the lighthouse was well worth the walk, we could see dolphins playing in the surf, whales on their migration up the coast and even a shark or two in the waters below the lighthouse.
When we left we both agreed it would make a great holiday location.
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