I'm back at work after my time off for the surgury that didn't end up happening. I had a lovely three days away in Byron. The weather was only really bad on the day I checked out. I should have made my bus back earlier, but oh well, live and learn. I spent most of the time laying on the beach like a seal sunning itself. It was bliss. It's pretty much all I did, every day. My skin isn't as pasty white as it was. I read my books on the beach, except for Wednesday when I was so mesmerised by seeing the splashes of whales in the far distance. I hadn't realised one had entered the bay until I saw a few others facing their phones over the Pacific and I saw some splashes and got excited. So that was the closest whale to the shore by far, but I only really saw a few of it's splashes. I then realized that if I kept my eyes on the horizon for long enough, I would see big splashes of water every so often as they breached the surface. I really need to go on an actual whale-watching trip one day to get up and close with them. I've also told myself that I need to bring a pair of binoculars next time I'm there. I could have bought a pair at one of the shops there, but I didn't really want to drop $250 on something I'm probably only gonna use a few times. I figure I can find something cheaper. I was happy seeing the splashes anyway. On the Friday, I walked up to the most eastern point in Australia so that I could get a better vantage point of the whales. And I saw quite a few of them - again, far in the distance, but there were quite a few of them. I also saw about eight dolphins in the bay on the walk there and back, so it was a very worthwhile trip for my mental health :) I'm glad I decided to go further to Byron rather than the Gold Coast like I usually do. It was a hell of a lot more peaceful, without a highrise in sight. Some hippie even stopped me on the street to give me words of affirmation. He even had a binder full of sheets of paper and he gave me like six of them lol.
I'll leave it at that with a bunch of selfies I took.
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