dolphin fun

Today we saw 2 dolphins. It was so cool!! I doubt we would have spotted them ourselves but this woman stopped on the path in front of us and pointed them out to the people she was with. People keep talking about dolphin and whale spotting in Byron Bay so I'm happy we've now had that experience.

Last night we went to an open-mic night in a pub here and Vic sang again. Amazing, she's so good, we're going to try to go to loads more so she can get performing experience etc...it was a really good open-mic all round, with the cutest band of 16 year old boys who were surprisingly good, plus some singer/songwriters and crazy local funk bands. (This is a big hippy 60s timewarp place, remember). Much fun.

Then Vic and I attempted to go to the local crazy-backpackers venue, the Cheeky Monkey but by the time we got there there was a queue and the bouncers were having a row with some drunk abusive English guys. Eww. It all looked pretty cringe-worthy and yuck, so we opted for going home and hanging out at the hostel with the incredibly cool, intelligent, articulate Swedish guy from our dorm. He's amazing...especially when compared to the IDIOT English guys we were sharing with. God, what losers...they were getting up to view the sunrise today at 4am, and having gone to bed at 1, we were SO not happy when they made NO effort to be quiet when getting up: rather, they left the door to our room wide open whilst they hung out outside with a load of drunken people who'd just come home from a night out, talking and laughing loudly (and I mean ridiculously loudly: I'm not overly fussy about stuff like that - I've been fine in big dorms for the last 6 weeks. These boys were really out of order).

Then they came back at 6am and did the same thing again.

Then at 8am they decided it was time for Vic and I to get up and started talking/yelling to/at us. "Wakey wakey! rise and shine!" etc. What morons. It's like...before today I thought they were just a bit annoying, the kind of guys who never EVER listen to what you say, but rather talk over and at you loudly about themselves. After our experiences this morning...I'm just so glad they left today.

Anyway, enough bitching - aside from the idiots, things are great. Vic and I borrowed bikes from our hostel and went up to the lighthouse, which is the eastern-most point of Australia. Amazing views. The day had started off somewhat cloudily, but it's been warm and sunny since about lunchtime, and right now there's a glorious pink sunset which I think I'm going to run outside and watch right now.