Over the last several days I have been making an attempt at learning to surf, incredibly hard but very fun. I don’t think I have any natural skill as a surfer but I can get up by myself, however it’s often short lived. It reminds me of golf in how when you are doing poorly it is entirely frustrating but when it does go right it is great fun. On my first day surfing there were heaps of dolphins swimming next to us, there were about six within 15 feet of me at one point.

The surf coaches are horribly dodgy, hilarious and aged from all of the sun. I find a lot of people from here seem to age rather poorly from all the sun.

I really like Byron Bay, it is really laid back and more what I expected of Australia. It is kind of a hippy surfer town. I can’t imagine anyone here having a serious job, even though I know people must. The strangest thing about this place is the mass quantity of people that don’t wear shoes… I find that mildly disturbing. The nightlife here is pretty good I went to see a battle of the bands with the girls I met in Sydney and the couple that I surfed with on my first day. I also went to a dodgy backpacker bar called the Cheeky Monkey with the two Canadians and two guys from Switzerland that I also met surfing. It feels like I haven’t stopped doing stuff since I have arrived in Australia, I am really looking forward to Brisbane. It looks like I am going to up settling there for a month or so. They have all kinds of Frisbee pickup games, so I can’t wait to get back to playing a sport I don’t suck at.