South West Rocks...

I believe I left you all in Byron Bay, so that's where I'll pick up.

We didn't get up to too much in Byron - it was nice to finally pause and just relax. The weather was also pretty rubbish for a lot of the time we were there - lots of thunderstorms so we had to hide away quite a bit. We managed to get out for a surfing lesson one day which was very cool. Nice to get a reminder of how to do it, and I was even made to surf a pretty big wave. I felt pretty high up - can't wait to do more!

WE also managed to get out for a platypus tour (which involved a 4.30am start!). We were really lucky to see 3 and at one point one was less than 3m away from us. What an experience! A definite highlight for me. On the way back to the park we also saw a carpet python and a koala.

We left Byron and headed to Nimbin - an old hippy town where we were offered copious amounts of drugs, and then headed south to South West Rocks. After about 7-8 hours in Betty we were more than sick of her when we pulled up here! Had a nice chinese meal and slept on the main street. Classy.

Yesterday we had a bit of an explore - went the wrong way when suddenly James shouted, "Dolphin!" NOt entirely sure what he was on about as we were next to a small creek I asked him what he was on about, but sure enough there were 2 bottlenose dolphin in the river! We followed them for a good 15-20 minutes and they came very very close to us. We were jumping about like little idiots and running along the riverbank, not looking where we were going. Suddenly James stopped and pushed me backwards; we had been about 50cm from stepping on a very large snake! The snake (which we've been reliably informed was a red-bellied black snake) came straight at us and we ran away pretty quickly. We suddenly felt less comfortable about running around so beat a quick retreat to Betty!

The rest of the day we spent driving around and seein the sights. This morning we were supposed to go out diving, but poor weather meant it was cancelled. It's looking better now so fingers crossed for the morning! Looks like it could be one of the best dives yet so I'm feeling excited!

Hope all is well at home.

Katy x