18th/19th Gold Coast & Byron

We are tired today after a 7am start. Myles has a 3 hour drive and we're going paddle boarding. What can go wrong?

Oh and today was raining. 

We started our day pretty chilled using some wifi gutted to see we don't have a couch surf in Byron which means the tent has to come out!! With that we waited for rush hour to end and headed off early. We were in the Gold Coast by 11 with the clouds above us but holding out! We cooked an early noodle lunch before paddle boarding and made a start. We had a briefing before we headed out and that was us! We both got the last 2 boards... PINK! Good thing Myles likes pink...

We had a wicked time especially Myles as he was faster & had a longer stick to try and knock Laura off with! Amazingly coordination won & no one went in the water until Laura got tired and dangled her legs off the edge of the board. It was surprisingly Tiring & hard not to loose the gopro! We did alright for beginners & much better than a women we watched fall in numerous times last time we were here! A good fun couple of hours & we were exhausted! Worst part was the frozen water was still pretty frozen.. We had a dribble & got it filled up luckily. After desanding we jumped in the car again headed for the NSW boarder with Byron Bay in our sights. We had a great time last time we were here & figured a 3 hour drive was enough for poor Myles with only 7 hours sleep! Once we arrived the heat hit us. We had forgotten the intensity of the heat in NSW it's much more intense & less muggy & sweaty. First things first tent up. 

Easy job we've done it so many times now. Wrong SO wrong.. A tent pole snapped & we couldn't fix it meaning we needed a BCF and stat! (BCF - boating camping & fishing store) luckily for us the nearest one is in Coolangatta where we had just been paddle boarding 2 hours earlier..

A quick google search and sir Myles was sent off to retrieve a new pole whilst Laura waited in the sun with the half put up tent.. It's a pretty sad sight.

Finally Myles was back and the tent was up! We made our way to the beach but the weather had started to turn :(

We had a walk along the sand and headed back to our tent for an early dinner. We had a curry that we had planned for 3 days earlier! We had potato & carrot in our coconut cashew curry courtesy of pataks. (You should try it, it was great!)

After this the rain came tumbling down and we retired to our tent for the evening. We awoke the next day to the rain continuing. Feeling pretty tired and grumpy we booked another night in byron to save taking the tent down in the rain. After a few hours and some breakfast it started to brighten up with blue sky on the horizon. We decided to go for it and headed for the beach where luckily the sun came out for us! We spent the day being pretty lazy going for a few walks and swimming when the sun came out. We headed back as it started to get grey. And cooked ourselves some schnitzels & had a shower before yet again more rain arrived whilst we were cooking. We spent the evening watching the Big Bang theory on the laptop and had an Early night.