The Cape Byron Bay Lighthouse.
Tallow Beach.
Main Beach Byron Bay.
Valerie and Phil.
Saturday,
December 31st
In
the morning I went down to the beach for another swim in the ocean
before having breakfast at a cafe by the motel. Then I drove up to
the Byron Lighthouse, which sits on a little peninsula and is the
most easterly location on the Australian mainland. I wandered around
the lighthouse admiring the commanding views it holds of the two
beaches on either side of it.
Then
I continued my drive north. I had to drive a few hours to reach
Coloundra. This is a small satellite city of Brisbane where as friend
of mine from my year long trip lives. I met Valerie on my Galapagos
tour in 2011. I arrived about 6pm and she was at a beach house for a
New Year's Party but her partner Phil was there. He showed me around
and into the guest room. I talked to him for a while before deciding
to go to the party.
It was close by in a beach house that Valerie and
her friends have shared and rented for years before she bought her
own place a couple of years back. Most of these people are involved
in skydiving. Valerie has retired and now works as a travel agent but
Phil and others still jump. Phil has done over 18000 jumps over a
thirty year career! Everyone was pretty drunk as they had been
partying all day. I didn't want to drink because I certainly didn't
want to get caught driving, so I talked to a few people about the
skydiving industry and then decided to retire. I left the party
about 10:30 and went back to bed.
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