Sun and Swimming!

Today was our last day at Byron Bay and luckily it was a very hot and sunny day, the best weather so far! In the morning we had to wake up early and ring some office to reserve our seats on coach for tomorrow when we are going to travel somewhere else. There aren't many places before Brisbane anymore so we decided (it's quite surprising that we managed to make a decision...) to go to a place called Surfer's Paradise that is quite close to Brisbane. Somebody said to us that Surfer's Paradise is not a good place but I think it's worth checking out anyway.


So today we got up early and went to the beach because it was very hot in the morning already. There are absolutely awesome beaches in this place and all of them are full of surfers and the waves in the sea are amazing.
I don't think my skin loves being in the sun at the moment because my shoulders are quite red... The sun is so strong here that if you spend only for a little while in the sun, you get some tanning straight away. I don't think it'd be a good idea to spend the whole day on the beach here but we were there only for a few hours.


We went swimming in the sea and it was amazing! The waves were huge and it was so great to swim in the big waves, much better than swimming in the sea without waves. I wanted to have a surf board or body board but we didn't hire them today, we are definitely going to do it some day though! It'd be awesome to try surfing in those big waves. Or maybe it'd be more like swimming with a body board because I have never tried surfing and it must be very difficult.... But I'm going to try it while I'm in Australia because it's the most common sport activity in this country and Australia is full of great surf beaches on every coast!
It's still very hot and it's 7 o'clock in the evening now.
We had a nice BBQ lunch at our hostel earlier today and then we've just been walking around. And I bought sunglasses so now I finally can throw my fake dolce&gabbana glasses away!


I've started liking Byron Bay even more now, this is actually a very nice little town and people are easy-going and nice. But right now all the places are full of teenagers because the school summer holidays just began here and everyone is going out and drinking and going to the beach. It feels funny that in Australia summer holiday starts in November but well, it's summer here now.


Our hostel is very nice as well, it's only our apartment that needs some improving... There are a few people in the same apartment with us and nobody even says hello. Luckily there's no other Finnish people in the same apartment so we can say what we think of other people there and they don't even understand us, hahaha. There's only one shower and bathroom between all of us so that's not very fun either... And the doors are open all the time so anyone could just walk into our apartment and steal something etc, we haven't even needed the keys we got when we came here! I was a bit scared that the apartment is full of huge and ugly spiders because the doors are open all day but luckily I haven't seen any...
Some beaches here are full of small holes and we noticed that there were hundreds of small white crabs that look like white spiders! Eeww, I don't like them.


So tomorrow it's time to go and explore some new places! Bye bye Byron Bay, hello Surfer's Paradise and after that we're going to Brisbane I think. Let's see what we'll find there!