Oulala ! Dix jours depuis mon dernier article ! Ca ne va pas
du tout !
Reprenons donc.
J’ai finis ma descente de la côte australienne, après les
Whitesundays, je fis un arrêt à Noosa puis Brisbane et enfin Byron Bay avant de
retrouver Sydney. Ces noms ne vous disent surement pas grand-chose, alors
quelques mots (et photos) à leurs sujets.
Premier arrêt à Noosa, où j’ai retrouvé Nicolas (un pote de fac
rencontré par hasard à Cairns) pour quatre jours de glandouillage dans une
auberge un peu décalée de la ville, mais à deux minutes d’une immense plage,
aux murs peints en rose, aux statues de bouddhas bienveillants et à l’ambiance
surfeurs bien agréable. Avec la fin de la pluie du nord Queensland et la
possibilité de se baigner dans la mer (plus de vilains crocodiles et
d’affreuses méduses à l’horizon) j’ai apprécié pleinement le mois de février
dans l’hémisphère sud !
Je repartais ensuite toujours plus au sud, direction Byron Bay, dont
tous les descriptifs que j’en avais entendus en faisaient le paradis alternatif
de la côte, plein de hippies surfeurs.
Byron Bay fut ma dernière étape de la côte, avant qu’un nouveau bus de
nuit ne m’emporte vers Sydney, achevant ainsi 45 heures de bus en compagnie des
backpackeurs du monde entier, chacun d’entre nous espérant un double siège pour
une nuit des plus confortables (je suis encore entrain d’affiner ma technique
pour repousser toutes velléités, mais c’est pas gagné, on en reparle dans six
mois !).
Au final cette emblématique côte est australienne a vraiment tenues
ses promesses, même si je pense que la faire en voiture ou en van doit être la
meilleure façon , permettant d’échapper un peu au « tout
touriste » qui la caractérise par endroit.
Oulala ! I wrote my last
article 10 days ago, it’s time to cach up
Since my last article I finished all
the coast, stopping in Noosa, Brisbvane and finally Byron Bay, before being
back to Sydney.
During my stop in Noosa I met again
my friend from uni, and we properly enjoyed a February month in the south
hemisphere! After Cairns and the raining season, what a pleasure to just lay on
the beach, enjoying sun and warm see. The couple pf days spend there were
really nice, thanks also to the hostel with pink walls, Buddha statues and the
surf atmosphere around. We also tried to see some wild koalas in the national
park, a nd I’ve been really really
jealous when two of my roommate told me they had been successful when we
hadn’t.
Noosa has also being the departure
point for a day trip to Fraser island, which is an island where the earth is
only in sand, and with beautiful lakes in the middle. The majority of the
backpackers are doing Frasers island in a 3 days/ 2 nights trip, and for
economical and practical reasons we didn’t, so during our day trip we were only
with old people… Which finally was pretty funny, looking how they were reacting
to everything (not the same way as backpackers, for sure!).
But I think whati preferred on this
trip, was finally after the island, when you stopped to see multicolors sand
before driving on the beach for Two hours. Two hours with only beach, sand and
see, and couple of Australians with tents, coming in the middle of nowhere to
enjoy their week end.
The next step of the coast for me
was Brisbane, where an Australian friend from Paris, Angela was waiting for me.
She has been very patient when we went to the koala sanctuary and I spend two
hours saying again and again how cute and adorable they were! We properly end
our week end meeting with couple of drinks near the river, in front of the
bridge and the full moon.
After that I continued my way to the
south, for my last stop in Byron Bay. Before going I heard that was THE
alternative-hippy place of Australia, and I’ve seen couple of alternative
people, reading the future in palms and having long hair, but the the majority
of shops in the main street are big surfeurs brands that I like, and not sure
we can I’m the more alternative person ever ! (and paying 35 dollars for a
night in a 10 dorms, doesn’t seem very alternative as well). Anyway the city is very cute, and the beach
is kilometers and kilometers of white
sand, and see full of surfers waiting for waves.
A last night bus brought me to
Sydney !
Finally this Australian east coast
has been a really really nice moment, I enjoyed every part, even under the
rain. I think the best way to see and do it should be with a car, being able to stop everywhere, outside the more
turisticall places.
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