Sunny Sydney! I finally made it - through gallons of goon, crazy capers and sand in places sand should never see.
After arriving in Rainbow beach I headed out to Fraser island - the largest sand island in the world - for three days of driving 4x4s along the sandy highway. The food was awesome (not just because I cooked it) and the scenery was amazing.
Moving on to Brisbane was such a culture shock. Having stopped at so many little towns on the way down the coast, and to suddenly be thrust into the middle of a big bustling city was crazy - especially when the vista was so similar to that of London and the Thames. I walked miles, and saw literally everything the city had to offer. Surfers paradise was a high rise surfer dude town (not quite surfers in suits, but not far off), and Byron Bay became the city on the coast that was the hardest to leave. I floated back from my day trip to Nimbin and partied hard with the best of them, got my souvenir piercing and waved a fond farewell to the seaside town before getting ready to hit my first wave.
Surf Camp was in arrawarra (translates as the middle of nowhere), and caught my first wave, and my second, third, fourth etc with style. With my final stop on the coast complete, it was on to Sydney - the lights, the bridge and the opera house!
Here the adventure continues....
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