The next morning I took the bus to Byron Bay, a cute little town between Sydney and Brisbane, with beautiful beaches and a lighthouse on top of a hill. On the way to the lighthouse you meet some funny looking turkeys, lizards, and if you swam many fish (including dolphins and rays). Just a little before the lighthouse you pass the most Eastern Australian Mainland Point. It is on a cliff and the day I was there, some dude decided to fall down the cliff (1st version I heard) or some dude went fishing and hurt himself (2nd, much more embarassing version for the dude) and I could follow a rescue mission with helicopter and people climbing down the cliff to reach the dude with first aid equipment. I met really cool people in Byron Bay, rode the waves with a bodyboard and learned how to properly bodysurf. It is a lot of fun if there wasn't all the blue bottles, some harmless stingers (jellyfish). After three nights I went straight up to Brisbane to catch up with Nina and to pick up our campervan which should bring up all the way to Cairns. Nina and I spent the night at the Bunk hostel and at night went down to the bar for some food and a couple of drinks. As we were eating I pointed out a guy to Nina and told her that he really looks like one of Andy's mates (a good Scottish friend of mine I used to work with in Melbourne) but that it could not possibly be him because he is still in Melbourne. WRONG!!! It was him...the world is small. Together with him, Nina, and the campervan we left for Byron Bay for two reasons. I convince all three of them that Byron Bay is worth visiting and I wanted to catch up again with two German girls I met when I was there the first time. They both are from a place near Freiburg, Andrea and Hannah.
Andrea got the nickname Losie from me because it didn't matter what but she always lost it. Calum (Andy's mate) was so happy in Byron Bay that we left him behind. From there, Nina and I drove via the Hinterland all the way up to Noosa, which is north of Brisbane. The way took us along backroads, the Naturalbridge, the Springbrook Nationalpark, up to Noosa. The Naturalbridge is a small cave in some kind of rainforest. It has an opening through which a waterfall drops and at night the ceiling of the cave was illuminated by hundreds and thousands of glowworms (and millions of flashlights from Asians visiting the cave at night. At least 10 busses unloaded on the parking lot which is equal to about 400 Asians...unbelievable!!!. We spent the night on the parking lot with three girls we met. We were not allowed to because it was a national park but we asked the rangers if they would fine us...They said "no" and that they left at 10:30pm so we just stayed. The next morning after breaky we left for Noosa, stopped in a little village to buy fresh pineapple, and visited a big waterfall and a lookout at the Springbrook National Park. The area around the waterfall was really hot and humid (a good environment for those poisoness snakes) but as soon as we got to the lookout which we reached after a 45 minutes trip along windy mounting roads we were freezing and had to put on a jumper. At night we arrived at Noosa where we cooked our dinner at the beach, took a shower at the beach and parked our car in some backroads to spend the night (we had to because camping is not allowed at those nice spots and they'll fine you if you do so)...
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