Day 22- Byron Bay

May 17, 2011- Day 22

Where: Byron Bay

Dinner: Chinese food

First ocean swim!

        Made it Byron Bay, and it really is quite beautiful. It really is a very touristy area though, which I don't love, and I've even noticed that the shop keepers here aren't as friendly. Probably because most of their clientele is a transient population. It was warm enough that I got to swim in the ocean for the first time! The water was turquoise and perfectly clear. Even when the waves (which were perfect swimming size) crashed you could see straight through to the sand. The water was pretty warm and the only problem was the breeze. The wind is everywhere! After swimming and laying on the beach for a while we used the beach showers. This one didn't even have spiders in it! It was outside and was surrounded by palm trees, so it looked like were taking wonderful showers in a beautiful tropical location. That was mostly true, except that the water was cold. Oh well, gotta take what we can get! We washed all of our dirty laundry, which had actually accumulated into quite a pile. While we waited we went across the street for some happy hour sangria, then has chinese food. Byron Bay has lots of “No Parking between 1am-5am” signs around, so we had a bit of a harder time finding somewhere to park for the night. We ended up back at the beach where we spent the day, and we were parking crazy close to the ocean again. It's warm enough to ocean some windows in the van at night, and the ocean was really loud last night. I loved it! Things are great here.