December 17th Evans Head –
Byron Bay 73km
Well this turned out to be our last days riding due to my
buddy Adrian meeting us in Byron and taking us to his lovely house in Kooralbyn. We left Evans Head early in the bright
sunshine, the road were quiet and
although we had to go on the highway for a short distance most of the ride
followed smaller roads and included our last ferry crossing taking us into
Ballina. From Ballina we headed towards
Lennox Head where a detour changed the route slightly. We were rolling into to the packed tourist
town of Byron Bay before noon. The beach
here was beautiful but it was very busy, I guess we are in peak season
now. This is definitely a place where
the young and beautiful hang out, as I am neither it was nice to see but not to
stay as Evans Head is more my speed and $20 for a sandwich in a café is pushing
my budget!
December 18th – January 3rd
Kooralbyn
Chilling with Ade, Grace and Tom the cat was just
great! I hadn’t seen these guys in
awhile yet they made both of us incredibly welcome even though they had never
met Maria. Their place is just so
beautiful complete with great views from the infinity edged pool!
We did a nice mix of chilling out and visiting places like
Surfers on Christmas day. We even got
involved with helping Santa dish out sweets from the fire engine! Too much food and drink was the order of the
stay.
A walk in the rain
Surfers Christmas Day
Maria Ade Grace
Me cooking!!! The wine helped alot!
The 2 weeks flew past and before we knew it Ade was dropping
us off at Brisbane airport with the bikes in homemade boxes as we couldn’t get
any from the local bike shops. Mine was
sporting 3 broken spokes in the rear wheel which had happened on the last ride
into Beaudesert on New Years day so a job for Bangkok. The flight took us back
to Sydney where we switched planes to head for Thailand.
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