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PALM TREES VANLIFE
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
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Exploring the East Coast of Australia – from Sunshine Coast to Sydney – in a Toyota Hiace from 1994.
Here's a photoblog about the journey:
First stop - Gold Coast: Surfing Kirra, Snapper Rocks, Greenmounth and visiting Mick Fannings RipCurl store.
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Then south to Byron Bay. Stopping by Cabarita Beach. In Byron we surfed the Pass, Belongil and had a delicious meal at the Tree House.
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Then down to Ballina. Sharky, but nice. Then also stopped by some of the Headlands, like Evans Head.
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A nice campsite between Ballina and Coffs Harbour.
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We found some nice pointbreaks and beaches around Arrawarra and Woolgoolga.
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Next stop was Coffs Harbour and Sawtell.
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Continuing down to Crescent Head and the closeby headlands. Sick place.
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We had a beautiful sunrise on a famous beach close to Sydney. Palm Beach. Home and Away.
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THEN - Sydney. Kaboom.