Elimelech: Our visit to Byron Bay and Surfers Paradise!

We went to Byron Bay to visit our president who was with his family up north, it was a 9 hour drive to Surfers Paradise and then an hour from there to Byron, we stayed in Surfers over night and the next day moved on to Byron.

In Surfers we first rented Scooters, and drove around, then we rented what we thought was a 4 wheel drive and, well, when we were stuck in the sand with half the back wheel stuck, it was quite evident that it was just for the look and it was not a 4 wheel drive!

The next day we went to Byron where we met our Shul President, Malcolm Kofsky with his family, they had arranged an apartment for us in the same building as theirs, which was right opposite the beach, and we had food that we brought up from Sydney, together with a Microwave.

There, after much messing around we went Quad Biking, it was my first time and its the best one I have been so far... in the mud and rain up and down some steep hills with a short swim in a muddy lake as well, it was a lot of fun!!!

We also took a walk to see the Lighthouse, on the way we saw some wild Chickens, a mountain goat, and some wired Lizards, we also made it to the most easterly point in Australia.

Malcolm Kofsky and Family

Me on a Scooter in Surfers Paradise!

All of us on our bikes!!!

I like this Picturte so you get to see it too!

The "4 wheel Drive"

When we discovered it wasn’t really a "4 Wheel drive"

And finally how we got it out after trying everything else, we discovered close by was a ship with a lot of junk and a crane, the crane had a very strong strap which we borrowed (and returned) to pull out the car,

Once in Byron we took a long walk to the Lighthouse and the most easterly point of Australian mainland. There was also some serious water rushes on the way!