Greetings from Brisneyland

The campervan is getting smaller, the campsites are getting busier, but the sky is getting bigger and the weather is getting warmer....24C today, and yesterday we were swimming in the camp pool before breakfast.
We seem to have fallen into a rythme of a night or two in a national park and then a night or two in a town. So after Sydney we camped on the seafront at Port Macquarie and spent the day at a Koala Hospital. Then it was a day driving to get to the hippy capital of Australia; Byron Bay, with a stop for lunch in Grafton ( a farming town ) for the best lamb-burger i've ever had (caramilised onions, beetroots, on foccachia bread).
So we got to Byron Bay on Sunday evening just in time to meet 9,000kids who were in town for the Slendour Festival....indie music, drink, drugs, holistic life theripies (you know what I mean!). Byron Bay is a bit like Hay on Wye with sun, surf, and "cool" people walking around with no shoes on. So of course we tuned in and chilled out, spending two days looking round the shops and walking on the beach. Naturaly I platted my hair and learnt to surf (only kidding about my hair). But this kind of lifestyle is an ersatz and dangerous one; the second day we came across a funeral for a thirty-something year old who had died of a drugs overdose.
After finding our inner beings in Byron it was time to spend a couple of days in the rainforest conecting with nature at Lamington Nature Reserve.
We are now far enough North for the forests to be semi-tropical, which means BIG...100 meter trees with girths like overweight sumu wrestlers, ferns the hieght of a house. So of course we had to do a rainforest trek, which started at 9.00am and finished at 4.00pm with only a half hour stop for a packed lunch. We walked 18kms that day and it was like walking through a prehistoric landscape, apart from the enourmous trees there were fantastic waterfalls and rivers we had to jump across, and parts of the path were on the side of a mountian gorge and too narrow for more than one person. Amazing stuff and very challenging, so we promised H and R that were would go to "Movie World" in Brisbane the next day.
That is where we were yesterday, doing the rides at Movie World which is a sort of mini Disneyland. We are staying at a campsite on Main Beach and today we are going to Sea World, before moving to a campsite closer to Brisbane tonight. Thank you for all your comments we really enjoy receiving them. Hang loose man.
from, Paul the surf dude.