Felt hung over.....! We had to check out the hostel and the temperature was scorching hot. None of these things helped us feel any better! Once we had made some good we headed back to the grass near to the beach where we had laid yesterday. We sat in the shade for a while but built up the courage to sit in the baking heat! The intention for today was to walk to the lighthouse in the bay (around 5km) which has amazing views... however the heat put an end to that!
After getting some final food shopping we jumped on our bus at 3pm to Surfer’s Paradise, which was 90 minutes away, however we passed from New South Wales to Queensland and the clocks went back an hour... so it was really only a 30 minute journey!
We thought that our hostel was near to the bus terminal, however it was 2km walk away – a fair mission in the heat with 2 backpacks and a heavy food bag each! When we arrived at our hostel – Surf ‘n’ Sun Beachside Backpackers’ - it looked pretty rough from the outside but we had heard good things about it. The staff were really friendly and gave us a tour of the place and explained everything to us. They showed us to our room – a 6 bed dorm room – which we shared with two other couples, One from Ireland and one from England. It was nice that the hostel had thought about their rooms and put similar people together. Although the rooms were small and very hot, we had our own bathroom and TV.
Before nightfall we walked 5 minutes to the beach, which surprisingly had less surf than Byron Bay, despite the name of the town! The town of Surfers is very commercialised and specifically built to be a holiday destination, so there are high rise hotels next to the beach. It felt a bit like any European beach resort, such as Benidorm!
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