We were keen to get on the road early from Byron Bay, and a bowl of açai later we were heading out of town. 

We followed minor roads as much as possible but www were soon back on the Pacific Highway with trucks flying past  

Tiger did find an amazing off road rout to get us down to the coast, cutting through the Byron Parklands festival venue on a gravel track. Despit liooking like it would be a dead end many times we pushed on and emerged a few kilometres later on the beach road. 

That led us to a coffee stop in Pottsville, where we used the cafè WIFI to book our flights to Bali on Saturday. This seems much more real now we have the flights booked and we know next week we’ll be in Indonesia. 

We carried on up the coast road until we eventually had to return to the Pacific Highway and churn out the last k’s to Tweed Heads.  

We were also back on familiar territory, as we spent some time here about Four years ago when we drove from Buron Bay to Noosa  

We hired a foame surfboard at Kirra and messed about in the water for a while, but I wouldn’t call it surfing. 

Then we headed along the coast a little further to Tugun to meet our Warm Showers host, Anna. She has a unit in an amazing spot just a few metres from the beach and we were able to ride all the way there along the coastal path that was inlay finished a few weeks ago.  

It was great to chat with Anna about some of her trips, including New Zealand by bike, kayaking the Murray with her young daughter. Amazing stories - just what Warm Showers is so good for.