We had our last day in Sydney on Tuesday after
a fab four days. We decided to do the free walking tour of Sydney, which
we probably should have done on the first day. It was still really good as our
guide took us to see all the main sites, obviously the Opera House and the
Bridge but also to see Hyde Park, St Mary's Cathedral, St. Andrews Cathedrals and the
Rocks (where most of the convicts first lived), as well as giving us lots of
interesting info. We mostly spent the tour laughing at a lady who had brought a
fold up chair with her that she would set up every time we stopped for the
guide to give us information. Not sure it was really necessary.
After this we had to catch our bus to Byron bay which
was a thirteen hour overnight journey (ouch). I hadn't planned to sleep
straight away as it was only 7.00pm but as soon as we started moving I was
snoring. I think this is because, after all our long journeys I am now an
absolute pro at sleeping in vehicles. I slept the entire journey more or less,
only waking up for an hour or so to watch our ‘in coach movie’, Avatar. Despite this, we were all still
shattered when we arrived and couldn't check into our room for another couple
of hours.
We did get chatting to the girl at the desk though who
told us that some boys had seen a python at the hostel the night before and
also that she had a huntsman spider (massive one) in her room the other night.
After finally checking into our room we quickly realised that we were sharing
with some miserable Germans who slept all the time and got moody if we woke
them... excellent.
As it was a nice day we went down to the beach taking with us the free body boards from our hostel. Gwenda and I were looking forward to this as Luce had told us once, twice or ten times that she can body board so we wanted to see if she could live up to her words. Unfortunately, for the first time the sea was pretty flat so we didn't manage to ‘catch many waves’.
The next day we
woke up to a massive thunder storm and so had to cancel the sea kayak that we
had booked, but once it had cleared up we went on a walk which took us to the
most easterly point of Australia. We were all so exhausted, partly from
sleeping on a bus the night before and partly because it was unbelievably
humid. It was worth the walk though because when we reached the most easterly
point and looked down to the sea we saw dolphins, turtles and stingrays
swimming below us.
We were so tired when we got back but had decided to go out so we forced ourselves. Unfortunately we had a bit of a tag along for our night out. We had left Luce alone for five minutes and she made a friend who was a massive pain. Thankfully she didn't last the night and we ended up having a good night at the well renowned ‘Cheeky Monkeys’ backpacker bar.
The next day however was not such a good time as we had to get up for our rescheduled sea kayak. The Germans were also unhappy with this early morning situation and we did not leave as pals.
We weren't feeling too bad considering our 4.30am arrival back at the hostel and our 8.00am wake up. When we got to the Kayaking place we realised that it was two people to a kayak so the girls abandoned me and I went in with this Dutch guy. We were the best team though as we were the Welsh and the Dutch so together we were team Wutch!
We started off pretty strong and it was really good as we got to see some sea turtles when we paddled by. When we got further out we also got to see some dolphins which came within a few metres of our boats so that was not too bad. However the waves were seriously choppy so after a while we were three pretty green sailors and Luce was actually sick over the side of her kayak.
On the way back we had the chance to get out and have a snorkel but only one person could go from the kayak at one time so we had to take it in turns. This meant that when a dolphin swam over the other member of team Wutch was in the water so that was a bit disappointing. Gwenda was in there with it though so that was really lucky for her.
We were so tired when we got back but had decided to go out so we forced ourselves. Unfortunately we had a bit of a tag along for our night out. We had left Luce alone for five minutes and she made a friend who was a massive pain. Thankfully she didn't last the night and we ended up having a good night at the well renowned ‘Cheeky Monkeys’ backpacker bar.
The next day however was not such a good time as we had to get up for our rescheduled sea kayak. The Germans were also unhappy with this early morning situation and we did not leave as pals.
We weren't feeling too bad considering our 4.30am arrival back at the hostel and our 8.00am wake up. When we got to the Kayaking place we realised that it was two people to a kayak so the girls abandoned me and I went in with this Dutch guy. We were the best team though as we were the Welsh and the Dutch so together we were team Wutch!
We started off pretty strong and it was really good as we got to see some sea turtles when we paddled by. When we got further out we also got to see some dolphins which came within a few metres of our boats so that was not too bad. However the waves were seriously choppy so after a while we were three pretty green sailors and Luce was actually sick over the side of her kayak.
On the way back we had the chance to get out and have a snorkel but only one person could go from the kayak at one time so we had to take it in turns. This meant that when a dolphin swam over the other member of team Wutch was in the water so that was a bit disappointing. Gwenda was in there with it though so that was really lucky for her.
We are now at Surfers Paradise visiting our lovely uni
friend Suze and boyfriend Ben so we're enjoying a bit of luxury of not being in
a hostel.
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