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Surfing Surfing ... wind surfing
After a 12 hour busride we arrived in the laid-back city of Byron Bay to be welcomed by every hostel in the city but not by the sun. The hostels were fighting for us ("we have free bikes and boards") but in the end the "Art Factory" was the lucky one. The "Art Factory" is a place full of free-spirited people. Half of them don't wear shoes and all of them smoke something to get higher. So everybody is smiling. Karma lives there with us so there are notes like "Stealing food ... if we don't get you, Karma will". The place is filled with art objects and on every wall there are paintings. There are different kinds of accommodation like normal dorm-rooms, tent-sites, sleeping in a tee-pee or in a cottage on an island in the lake. Each evening there is something happening. Tonight we will have an evening of drums, guitar and didgeridoo. Because we believed Byron Bay was a sunny place we decided to camp. That was not a good decision. The first night was OK, but the second day it rained for so long, the tent turned into a swimming pool and we fled to a romantic (dry) hut on an island nearby. Tonight we are camping again. This time on a higher and dryer spot. The second morning we went for our first swim in the ocean. It was so cold we were sunbathing in our sweaters. But we were so brave that we had our first swim anyway. After the rainy night we woke up in a sunny world again. We gave the beach another chance and had our first surfing-lesson. We learned about riding the waves and about the Aloha-feeling of surfers. It was a pitty we didn't take the surfingschool that promised to give your money back if you coudn't stand on the board in 3 hours. Hana would have had her money back. But she was on all fours on the board and it was great fun anyway. Her excuse is that she comes from a country without a sea so what can you expect. Tomorrow we'll go for a sunrise tour to the lighthouse. If we wake up on time and don't change our minds then. Aloha from Hana & Bart |
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