Byron Bay

 Byron Bay

It was a lovely morning and we set off early for a morning walk to the light house.

Part way up the hill towards the light house, we looked out over the beach around the next headland. It was a beautiful flat, sandy beach with hardly anyone around. 

We stopped at the hang glider jump off point for a group photo.

We passed the light house, no photos as we had taken several the day before. From the light house, we walked down to ...

...the most easterly point of Australia.

Looking down at the most easterly point. The waves crashed but down there were turtles, feeding on seagrass. Out to sea were dolphins and in a week or two, there would be whales off the coast migrating northwards with their new born calves.

From out vantage point high above the cliffs, we could see shoals of fish. Note the pointed rock in the centre of the photo.

The same area with the pointed rock off to the centre left of the photo and see how the shoal has moved and formed another shape. 

There were other shoals along the coast as we walked back to the centre of Byron Bay. The issue here is that the fish attract predators including sharks and we so many fish, there would be sharks gathering and there were lifeguards on jet skis off shore, monitoring the situation. 

By the time that we had returned to the town centre along the sandy beach, the bathing flags had been replaced with no swimming signs and the beach was closed for swimming. There were surfing and kayaking classes taking place on the sand. but they would not be entering the water that morning. 

The beach was crowded but despite the hot weather, the sea only had a few people in it, probably tourists who didn't understand the beach signs and warnings but were still splashing about in the water despite the shark danger.

We had a late breakfast in the town centre and then escaped from the sun to sit in the shade around the swimming pool at the hotel.