Wednesday 1 June 2011

Weekend Away

So I spent the weekend at my favourite hippy coastal town 'Byron Bay'. Took the 1 and a bit hour drive to get there and arrived at Belongil Backpackers right on the beach. They have a great cafe 'Treehouse Belongil' next to it and the chai tea is rather nice. We checked in for just Friday night and my girlfriend and I Tania cruised into town by foot on the beach. It's about a 20 minute walk. I was wishing I had my new camera though because the beach was glowing with a deep blue violet colour shining out of it and the stream of surfers lining the belongil and byron bay coast line looked liked little seals with there full body rashies on. We finally got to town and watched the sunset just in time.



There were dozens of people across the carpark and on the rocks watching the sunset with us and then I could hear the beat of bongo drums behind me. So once the sun went down we went over to see the people on the rocks playing the bongo drums. So I had a little dance to the drumming as I always do. Just cant help myself the beat makes me want to move. So I was in Byron and in the swing of things and it only took me under half an hour and I was no longer city girl but beach girl with a splice of hippy... :)


I was starting to feel hungry so went to my favourite vegetarian restaurant 'Cardamon Pod' which make a beautiful warm and cold selection of hari krishna food. Delicious but folks be careful not to over indulge. We came to Byron to go to the Glo Dance night which we thought was on Saturday night but I checked my facebook and it said it was on that night. So we raced home to get changed and picked up another friend who I met randomly back at Belongil backpackers. So the three of us piled up in the car and headed to the Durumbul Hall in Mullumbimby for the Glo dance. It was my first Glo dance so was looking forward to it. We arrived after driving down a long dark country road and once we were there saw the lights and was like great we're finally here and then couldn't see any parks so drove back to the front of the property and drove down onto the grass. Big mistake!!! The car got bogged, VERY bogged. Did I panic, did I get angry, did I scream?? All of the above. The good news is the car was de-bogged from a stranger in the dark. Thanks to my friend Cynthia who stayed with the car as I went into the Dance hall to check it all out. I kind of didn't stay in the mood, somehow having my car bogged 2 hours from home didn't stimulate or inspire me at this stage. We all stayed on to midnight though and got something out of the night whether it was good or bad.