Anne's blog travel 06-07

It was nice to finally move my essential stuff to the new unit in Byron and sleep there last night. I went for a run this morning and went part way up to the lighthouse which is such a lovely area. Many people walk the way up and down early morning, late afternoons or throughout the day. As the life of people in Hanoi, especially the old Quarters seemed to revolved around the Hoan Kiem lake, in Byron, the lives of locals revolves somehow around this lighthouse. Cape Byron by the lighthouse if the most Easterly point of Australia. I've been to Cape York the Northern most point of Australia when i used to work on the Atlantic Clipper at the beginning of the 1990s. I've also hiked up Wilson's Promontory in Southern Victoria with Brett back in 2000 which is the Southern most point of mainland Australia (Tasmania being a separate Island and therefore more southern again) but never quite made it to the Western most point of Australia which would sit somewhere not too far from Exmouth, Western Australia.

But anyway, Byron Bay is located right here on the Eastern part of the country. The views on the pathway to the lighthouse are spectacular and you can easily take them for granted after a while. Yet I guess many viewpoints are breathtaking no matter how often you may see them. This is why this area is rather an expensive one to live in. And yet in another way, life here is so relaxed and non judgeamental that one could do anything...shave their head, walk around in a bikini, sport dreadlocks, dress sexy, daggy, sporty, etc and no one would really notice or care.

Otherwise nothing really new for me. Just catching up with friends and taking care of business.

Bye for now