Studying the Three S’s... Sun, Sand, and Surf

“Studying the Three S’s... Sun, Sand, and Surf”

Review of the time I spent on a 4 day long surf camp... It was really fun and really tiring. When you have to spend over 15 minutes battling against the break just to get out into the waves you start to get the feeling that the ocean really does not want you there. You keep trying to get back in and it just keeps throwing you back out. To add on to that one of the hardest things to do when your only 1.5 inches tall is carry and 9 foot surf board. It’s a good thing that gnomes are know for there upper body strength or this would be impossible. I ate allot of good food which was a next break from the “backpacker” dinners I have been eating. I even had a kangaroo barbeque at surf camp! It was tasty, I still want to try a kangaroo burger because there suppose to be very good. I posted some of my surfing photos on my face book.

After surf camp I went to Byron bay, and I took the 13 hour Greyhound bus ride to get here. I really enjoy taking the bus I thought it was going to suck because it was going to be really long (in fact I could be back in America for the same amount of time). I found that taking long bus rides is nothing like long plane rides. I left on the night bus from Sydney at 10 pm during the ride we had three breaks and I got lots of sleep.

I have now left “Byron Bay” and am in “Surfers Paradise” awaiting my bus to “Brisbane“. Here are my thoughts of the time I spent in “Byron Bay” and “Surfers Paradise”...
When you first arrive in the town of Byron Bay it embraces you with a warm hug. It appears to be the place that you have be searching for! A small surfing town with a laid back vibe located on a beautiful beach. Everywhere you look you see young hippy hipsters casually walking around with fedoras adorned on there heads. Small shops line the street with stylish garments and funky jewellery. It not until you spend a little more time in the town that you realizes that the person who gave you that welcoming hug was infected with chicken pox and now you cant stop itching.

The whole time I was there I don’t think I meet one Australian. Its like you been dropped off on some island where all the different countries have agreed to be a holding pen for there un-wanted backpacks. Some of the people are nice while others are so stoned they just look at you with a vacant zombie stare while saliva runs down the side of there mouth. The nice thing about the town is that you will never feel under dressed you could walk around wearing a paper bag claiming that it was more earth friendly then wearing cotton and before you know it 10 other people would be sporting your eco design. So I guess you can say I was happy to leave Byron Bay the only problem was my next stop was Surfers where I would be staying just for one night.

Surfers is basically just the opposite of Byron Bay but also exactly the same.
“Surfers Paradise” is a town built by the water with tons of backpackers as well.

The difference is that all the people here seem artificial. Walking around I felt like I was visiting a town of the future where robot humans existed and were living among us. You often see people huddled in groups. It’s like all the “cool kids” from high school built a town where they could all live together a continuing to live in their “coolness“.

In Brisbane now and it’s heaps better!!!

Cheers
Fredrick