Easter break part 3

After Lennox we set our sights on the Goldcoast, home of surfers paradise.

What can I say? Everything was perfect, it's easy to see why they call it surfers paradise. We surfed for most of the morning then took a short tour of the town, it's alot like California but everyone seems to be a surfer, and no one is in a hurry. Hopefully I have another chance to spend some time up there, but then again I'd probably never leave. Back in the car we again changed directions and headed down south. Due to no plans we went a new direction everyday, I think our route looked something like a sporadic connect-the-dots.

We found ourselves in Yamba (hometown of my roommate Kieren) and found yet another perfect stretch of beach. With another several hour surf we were about out of daylight, fortunately we got last minute invites to Kierens farm. With an over sized bonfire I introduced schmores (spelling? you know the graham cracker-mallow-chocolate routine) to the Aussies with great success, they'd seen them on movies but had never had them before.

The next morning we returned to beaches of Yamba for a pre-drive surf, again we couldn't have asked for better conditions. Taking route once again the opposite direction, we were back on the road. With great tunes and in good moods the drive back to Byron was excellent!

Laurie proposed we visit an old rock quarry that she'd heard of with a huge cliff jump, why not? I said. The quarry had several places one could jump from but anything other than the highest felt incomplete. After testing the depth everyone but the frenchman (too scared) hiked to the highest point, about 70-80ft. The jump was completely terrifying but we managed to get out injury free and feeling great!
Here's a link of other people jumping off it: http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=DaBYRwLQIWU&feature=related

That night we went to a byob pizza shop and stuffed our faces with excellent food and great Australian beer. After dinner we rented a surfing movie (do you see a theme here?) and went back to Laurie's house.

The next morning we went out for our last surf before journeying home, a great finish to an awesome trip.