Thank the heavens we finally made it

We officially arrived in Byron Bay, New South Wales at 4:15a.m. this morning. I have now crossed from one end of Australia to the other and I seem to still be in one piece but feeling quite exhausted. I only have 2 pictures for today but I have some catching up to do from the previous 2 days given that I didn't have any internet service. My favourite thing that I saw today was this little adorable guy. He is the size of my thumb nail! He was so tiny and let me get so close.

This evening I was lucky enough to catch a couple of live songs by Lisa Hunt and the Forever Soul Orchestra. She's such an incredible singer and she's got an interesting history. Her biography can be found at this link http://www.foreversoul.com/pages/biography.html

Byron Bay has delicious and healthy food, very nice clothes that are my favourite style and reasonably priced, and a beautiful beach with compacted sand that's easy to run on. Pictures will be soon to come. Last nights drive was very slow because there were many winding roads and low speed limits. I managed to get a cool pic when I was getting sleepy in the truck and looking for something to do.

While listening to more good tunes on the road I realised I had forgot to mention the John Butler Trio in the list of awesome Australian bands. John lives in Fremantle, Western Australia where I've lived for the previous months prior to this trip. When I saw him live at the Fly By Night club I had to contain myself from breaking out into tears. His more personal performances are an absolute must to see.

  Yesterday we stopped in a town which had backwards parking stalls. The only way that you could park was if you reversed into the spot at an angle. I lost my Ayurvedic toothpaste down the drain while taking this picture so I figured I better at least post it. Merrrrrr

The day before we had beautiful scenery to look at. The morning started off with rays of sun shining through the clouds as we drove down a side road to find 2 geocaches

We passed through some green hills. All I could get for a picture is what I could see through my window :( I would have loved to go for a walk but there was driving to be done.

A small town that we fueled up in had these antique looking buildings

We stopped in the town called "Broken Hill" and went to Kennan Lookout to get a good view of the mines. There is a glass building on top of the mines.

 The mines stretch a length of 7.5kms, have a width of 250 meters, and a depth of 850 meters which appears to make the shape of a boomerang. More than $100 billion of minerals have been collected here. Mainly silver, lead, and zinc. There are also a lot of rare minerals.

The geocache that we found here is my favourite one to date. The treasure was a small version of the New Testament.

Inside the cover was written "Love Sux"
All that I have to say to that is "Amen Sista!!"