Road Trip Part 18: Sunrise at Byron Bay and Best Break Burgers at Coolie

Apparently you’re not legally allowed to sleep in your car there either, but nobody stopped me and the car park had another few cars and vans in it.

I awoke, enjoyed the sunrise at the main beach at Byron Bay.

Then I drove round to Cape Byron. I made the short walk to stand at the most easterly point of the Australian mainland.

It was still early and later that day I had arranged to meet up with George Sutton who I worked with in 2009 during my fourth season working at Best Break. Best Break is a seafront food and drinks unit by Bournemouth beach in the South of England. Since I started working there in 2004, I have met people of 28 different nationalities just from that one job…

George Sutton was from the Gold Coast, and next up on my road trip I would indeed end up in the Gold Coast.

I texted George who was working and arranged to meet him at his flat later that afternoon. IN the meantime I had time to have breakfast at Tweed Heads (the last town in New South Wales before crossing the border into Queensland) and do a day of sightseeing round the sunshine seaside resort of “Coolie”, there I was in Coolangatta. It was hot and a beautiful typical Australian beach side town.


Travelled from – Byron Bay


Travelled to – Coolangatta


Road Trip Distance So Far – 2,112 kilometres


Key Song – 


Pulp – Sunrise:



SUNRISE/RAINRISE AT BYRON BAY:



AT CAPE BYRON:



ARRIVAL AT COOLANGATTA:



RELAXING WITH A FRUIT SMOOTHIE AT COOLANGATTA: