Easter break part 1

For Easter break I took a trip up the coast with my roommate, we had no plans, $80 worth of candy and baked beans, and a tent.

Along the way up towards the Gold Coast we saw kangaroos, that famous big red rock, and tractors.


A late start, switching cars, obtaining a Frenchman, and a "mandatory" surf stop put us in Byron Bay around 10pm. We stayed at Laurie's house (Canadian) a friend Tristan made while surfing in Hawaii. The next morning we woke up earlyish and took to "Broken head" beach, who could have guessed we'd run into any trouble there?

After about 2o minutes in the water I managed to snap my board in half (the waves helped), worst part is due to the fiberglass being torn off, it can't be fixed. Thinking the surf trip had just ended for me I was bummed, maybe I wasn't ready for this level of surfing? Luckily this wasn't true as no less than twenty minutes went by when I saw Laurie walking to the car, board snapped in two.




Laurie was able to borrow two surfboards so we would be able to surf the rest of the trip, how awesome is that?

Without a place to stay, we started driving around looking for a place we could throw a tent without having to pay. We ran out of sunlight without having found a place to sleep when we had a "good" idea, why not sleep on the beach? Legalities aside, we were feeling very smart having found a place to sleep that others pay millions of dollars to build their house in front of. We set up camp in the dark to avoid detection, in retrospect this was a pointless act as we had a large camp fire that night.