SN-DTOMC - The Coast

Most of the rest of our trip went unphotographed, which does not really make for aesthetically pleasing blogging. Suffice to say that we had a lovely time in Brisbane for a few days, being very non-touristy (not only because Brissy is sort of lacking in exciting touristy things to do, but also because Reto and I were in relative slacker mode by then. Which is actually pretty much business as usual for us), doing a lot of mooching around with Tina and Bastian and their tiny new baby Leo and being rained on a lot. And of course whenever it wasn't raining it was so ridiculously humid that it may as well have been.

After Brisbane we headed back down the coast and spent a night in Byron Bay (which really is overrated but it is undeniably pretty and you can get a darn tootin' good cup of coffee there. And bircher muesli served on a plate*, apparently, as I discovered when we went out for breakfast. It was fantastically delicious, and so ridiculously filling that I had to get a doggy bag for the half I couldn't manage to eat. Who takes cereal away? Wacky!) and then the next night in Taree (a town with nothing to recommend it except, apparently, the Big Oyster, which we didn't see because we were busy hiding indoors from all the pouring rain. Actually, on the drive there we heard on the radio that people in Taree should be alert to the dangers of flash flooding, so we perhaps should have stayed somewhere else, but recklessly we didn't. Our token gesture towards flood safety was to stay in a motel on the other side of the road to the river, but as it turns out even that wasn't necessary. Anyway, here's a pic of the Big Oyster (courtesy of here) just in case there's anyone else out there who's never seen it:).










* As opposed to a bowl, the standard cereal vessel