A trip to Oz wouldn’t be complete without embarking on the well-trodden backpacker route down the east coast. However, what we didn’t realize is that we picked Schoolies Week to do just that, the week that 13,000 17-18 year olds descend on the Gold coast to get obliterated after exams. Bad planning!
Our stay in Noosa was lovely though – Noosa was obviously a bit too low key for schoolies. I made the sensible decision to book a camp site 4 miles out of Byron Bay for our next stop. It appears schoolies have cars. Four miles meant nothing to the flaming galahs and we were given a spot sandwiched between 2 large groups – dance lovers to the left and indie lovers to the right, it turns out. In their defence, they were probably much quieter than I’ve ever been after a few too many drinks (i.e. there was no singing!), but being woken at 3am to the sound of vomiting was not ideal. Nor was seeing a girl throw up into a plastic bag while we ate our breakfast.
We left Byron Bay a little tired and journeyed down the coast stopping at Port Macquarie and Port Stephens along the way, which were schoolie-free. On the 3rd night we woke up to find very large brown beetles all over our tent.
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| The horrible bugs we woke up to on our tent! Needless to say 4 nights sleeping under a piece of nylon in Australia was more than enough camping for me! |
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