Byron to Brisbane

3.11.08 Byron to Brisbane

Left at 3pm after a great last day in Byron for our drive north to Brisbane. On the way to Brissie we stop in Surfer's Paradise, huge commercial center of the Gold Coast, called the Gold Coast cause it costs so much to live there...If you watch surfing competitions on tv from Aussie many are at surfer's paradise, think Honolulu..many high rise buildings, the highest residential building in the world is here the QE2...Anyway we leave surfer's and head to a zorbing hill outta town. Zorbing for those of you who don't know is a huge plastic ball you get inside of and they put some water in there with you and huck you down a hill...quite fun...see pic's.

Onward we pass thru some sugar cane plantations and then thru a bunch of timber and logging areas..even get to see some Brumbies, wild horses that travel in packs and are old time logging horses, brought here for logging and left when they were not used anymore, now wild. on to Brissie.

Brisbane is a big city with a small town feel, 2 million people there and hence we are only staying over night, have had enough of big cities...We arrive and are told we are booked in a 10 bed dorm!!! I am a bit alarmed and quite pissed as we called ahead and booked a private room 2 days ago....so we are told that is all they have and I pout my way up to a 10 bed dorm, a bit over tired and knowing we have to be up at 5:30am...anyway long story short, 10 boys could not have been any quieter!! Yay!!