We didn’t sleep well, but one of the nice things about our accommodation was that there was a hiking guide. We decided to make use of it and head over to hike the Cape Byron walking track which promised spectacular coastal views, a hike through the rainforest and a lighthouse. All sounded good to us!
The first part of the hike was along the beach and as we walked we noticed some plastic rubbish lying on the ground. And by us I mean Manja noticed and pointed it out, I think it used to be a pen or something like that. We picked it up to dump it in the next bin, but it spawned a conversation in which we decided that we’d make a point of removing plastics from beaches and nature as see it. It may not make a huge difference, but as per The starfish parable, every little bit may help to save some poor creature from a horrible demise.
Our first real stop was Fishermans lookout. Personally I didn’t see many fishermen, but it was a pretty good spot to watch the surfers. Manja and I were particularly amused to see a small lady between a bunch of surfer blokes showing them how it was done. In the spirit of our animal photos, we also took a bunch of pictures of some black birds which behaved like seagulls.
The path lead us along a road for a few meters, where we saw this classic Aussie sign. A simple sticker made the purpose of the sign so much more clear.
A short time later we were back on a walking track along the coast. There we really did get to see some spectacular coastal views and we followed every scramble path to explore every beach. ventually we got to the most easterly point of the Australian mainland. Yipee!
We took a short break watching the ocean when a teenager nearby squealed and pointed. Sure enough we saw a whale in the distance. Seems Australia wants to show its Animals to Manja 🙂
Thanks to a steady hand and a pretty good camera lens, Manja was able to get this shots:
We kept bumping into some critters on the way up. We saw two awesome-coloured sets of ants, one red and one gold. We named the gold ones gold-butt-ants (“Gold-Popo-Ameisen”).
At one point we even saw this cool lizard:
Can’t find him? He’s right in the center having a sun-bath. Once again Manjas photography skills proved superior to my phone-cam-snap. This is why you still need a camera kids!
Because we really didn’t take an easy path, we got to the lighthouse pretty exhausted and decided to stop for a well-deserved milkshake. I narrowly missed the opportunity to take a photo of a Wallaby (or little Kangaroo?) exploring a Lizard and get freaked out… but I got the lizard!
On the way back we noticed an important sign, advising that someone is playing sim-snake in the area… Today we didn’t see any of them around though.
The way back turned out to be a downhill walk through the rainforest, which was pretty spectacular in its own right. We also found yet another lizard!
Because walking is kind what we do, we also decided to check out the fine sand of Tallow Beach. I’m not the biggest sand fan and it was windy… Things I do! Check out the wind blowing about us!
There was a walking track back which lead us through some bushlands. Google said it was a path and I guess *technically* it was. One step above bush-bashing, but a path was juuust visible. After we hit a few spider webs, I got to walk in front the rest of the way too.
The view from the 30cm “track” we followed
By the time we got back to the car we just had time to hit the supermarket to grab a few things and we noticed that Byron Bay really takes shopping cart safety seriously. You are not allowed to abandon your shopping cart….
With our provisions we headed back to our apartment for a quick shower and a debate on what to have for dinner. We weren’t super impressed with the options in Byron itself and we were a bit further out already, so we decided to make the trip down to the Lennox head pizza shop. It was worth the drive. Seriously, this was possibly the best pizza I had and Manjas was pretty damn good too. I guess one could argue that we were both starved from a day of moving, but we really enjoyed it.
After dinner we had a look at the beach and watched the moon and stars. We did take some photos, but they didn’t turn out… Just some back rectangles.
Never the less, once we got home we were full, happy and exhausted from a day of walking. So we dropped into bed and slept – in spite of the noisy fans.
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