Sunday 29th July 2007

We woke up this morning and packed our bags as we'd planned to move onto Byron Bay today. Afterwards we had some breakfast and then went out for a walk. First we went into a little market opposite our hostel and then walked up the beach in the opposite direction to yesterday.

On our way back this afternoon, we bumped into Ash, Adam and some other guys from the hostel, who said they were heading over to the jetty because they wanted to jump off it. Me and Nikki tagged along to watch as Adam was REALLY scared and we didn't think he'd do it.

When we got there we understood - the jetty was about as high as the roof of a house. Ash jumped off no problem. It took Adam about 10 minutes but he did it in the end and then the other 2 guys were stalling - so I stripped down to my boxer-shorts and threw myself off - just to show them how easy it was. The water was surprisingly warm too... bonus!

We came back to the hostel and Nikki made us fried-egg sarnies for our lunch and then we helped Ash and Adam make chips for theirs - the poor little sods didn't have a clue and i'm sure they would've set the kitchen on fire if it hadn't been for Nikki! When we'd all finished our lunches me and the lads went outside for a game of cricket, while Nikki sat and read a magazine. I'm happy to report that I did ok at representing England at bowling - and got a couple of the Aussie guys out for a duck... quaaaaccckkk!

After all of today's excitement, a bloke from the hostel dropped us off at the bus-stop to catch our Greyhound. We got there at about 4pm and the bus finally turned up at... 8.15pm - it was 3 and-a-half hours late! Apparently the starter motor had blown up (probably as a result of them taking breaks every 5 minutes) and we finally got to Byron Bay at about 11.30pm. Luckily, some guy from our new hostel came and picked us up - so we got there at about midnight!

Stupid Greyhounds - ours needed putting down!