A Travellers Blog : East Coat- 3

3 bus journeys, 3 different stops, 2 weeks later and we've finished

our East Coast tour and are currently waiting for a flight to L.A.

As much as we are exited for L.A and America, we're all so sad

we have to leave Australia, it's been the most amazing 3 months where

we've managed to see and do things you can only imagine.

This blog post is all about our last 2 weeks in Aus.

So from Fraser Island we travelled further south to surfers paradise

for a quick family stop which consisted of a lot of relaxing and sleeping,

from there to Byron Bay. Byron is known as the

hippie town of Australia, everywhere you look there is

tie-dye baggy trousers and dreadlocks, backpackers run the town.

We spent our days lounging on the beach and going for coastal bike rides,

we even trekked it up to the lighthouse one day which was so lovely

to sit and eat our picnic whilst watching the dolphins swim below us.

When we were cycling down from the lighthouse we passed many

strugglers who were cycling up and

half way down we met a couple of aussie lads who asked us

'if we needed hydrating' and next thing we know we were

given cans of coke and bourban. So we thought we'd mention this

because little things like this show you

how happy and lovely the Australian societys view on life is.

Realistically something like that would never happen in England,

and I think that's one of the reasons we have fallen in love with

this country.


we just couldn't resist a coastal photo shoot

Our next stop was Spot X.

So when you imagine a typical Australian surf camp you think of

small wooden shacks on the beach front with gorgeous, tanned, blonde

surfers riding every wave effortlessly, Spot X was exactly this

(and when we say gorgeous we mean it, honestly every one of them were

carved by angels, we didn't even know humans could possibly look that good,

ladies if you're ever in Australia, Spot X is a must).

Each day we were lucky enough to wake up in paradise,

learning to surf for 4 hours and then spending the afternoon

playing beach volleyball, sunbathing whilst the music is blasting from

the wheelie bin speakers, kyaking or even ocean rafting.

Ocean rafting was particularly fun, paddling through the waves whilst

they throw you all over the boat, or in Robyn's case when she

decided to give everyone a quick musical number and begins to

sing titanic she's pushed off the front of the boat and into the sea.

Which wasn't cool because then I had to be hoisted onto the boat

and end up face planting the floor infront of the good looking surf instructor.

(Elegance was never my strong point).

So I would love to insert some great photos of us gracefully face

planting the waves and trying our best to look cool

whilst surfing however I can't seem to download the photos onto

my laptop (which was a lovely coincidence as Robyn genuinly

looked like a frog in every photo they took).

A 10 hour bus journey south led us into (cold) Sydney.

This is where we have spent our last week in Australia, first impressions

wern't good. The rumour goes that if you love Melbourne, then

you're going to hate Sydney and vice versa. Well, we loved Melbourne

and both cities couldn't be more different. Sydney is full of

action, everywhere people have places to go and see,

everything seems to rush past you as if someone had presssed

fast forward on life. Melbourne, couldn't have been more different,

it was so relaxed and friendly, it also felt more European and so

reminded us of home which was probably another aspect why we fell in

love with the city. However, saying that over this week the city

has grown on us, the opera house and harbour bridge are both

beautiful points of the city and being tourists

they're an obvious must to go see. The Blue Mountains are

also a must see, they really are breath taking and one of those places

where no photo does it justice therefore when you see the photos

imagine them 100x better and more beautiful.

P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney


It was lovely seeing an old school friend we haven't met in 4 years

(Thank you for showing us around Charlotte, we hope to see you

again soon)

We should probably talk about Sam as well since he was an important part of

Sydney for us. So when we first arrived in our hostel room

a drunken house keeper strolls in and quite poorly attempts to make our beds,

it was highly amusing to watch and the start of a beautiful friendship.

From there on Sam was adopted into our little travelling family

and we spent the rest of our time in Sydney with him

having BBQ's on the beach and going for coastal walks.

I think we all agree that he is honestly one of the most genuine

and loving guys we've met whilst travelling, it's rare you meet someone

and you can feel completely comfortable around them within a

matter of days, it feels like Sam has always been part of our wolf pack.
He has taken us on many nights out (he's actually a very bad influence) where we've been completely 'white girl wasted' (Megan didn't even make it out on the first night) Robyn on the first night took it upon herself to
pour pints from the tap and hand them out for free whilst the bar tender wasn't looking, I was then chased around the club by security and kicked out, absolute nightmare. I honestly don't think we would have enjoyed Sydney nearly as much if it wasn't for him.

We are all so sad we have to leave him behind but you can't

get rid of us that easily because we will definitly be meeting you when we

are all home. We love you Sam.