Nimbin Day Trip

I've booked a day trip to Nimbin with Happy Coach through UltimateOZ. The bus came to pick me up at 10AM, and not to my surprise it was painted in a rainbow. There were quite a few of us, including one Japanese girl. The weather wasn't too nice, and we were actually driving towards the dark clouds. We first stopped by a lookout point off the highway that looked over Byron Bay. I could tell that some of the people on the bus were there for the weed at Nimbin, most of them seemed quite young. Next stop was the waterfall a short walk through the woods. We passed by a bunch of nut farms. Apparently everyone in the area used to grow cannabis, but once the police cracked down on everything, they started growing macadamia nuts. The waterfall was nothing special, just a bit of water that falls into a round cliff. Some people were already smoking up.

We did a pit stop at a hotel for some drinks before finally heading off to Nimbin. I had a quick chat with the Japanese chic who was in Australia on holidays. There was this German chic who seemed pretty fond of our tour guide, he was an old dude, and she bought him a drink but he couldn't take it because he was driving. We passed by Lismore where there was a telephone pole that marked the flood in 1954 where it seemed the whole town was under water. It was pouring when we got to Nimbin. The town was really small, but it had an Information Centre, a school and a police station. We were given couple hrs to tour on our own before our BBQ would be served at the bowling club, but you really only needed half an hr to see the whole town. Not 5min in town I got asked by a random bloke if I wanted some cookies or brownies, probably because I had my Canucks tank top on again. I found the Nimbin Museum that the Italian dude from Nomads told me about. He said it was weird for him, but I quite like it. It was really artsy fartsy, everything inside was pretty much hand crafted and painted with sayings, really hippy. There were a lot of old junk too like half a Volkswagen camper van.

The tour guide told us about the Rainbow Café that had the best coffee. I first went into a few shops that sold pipes and incense and everything hippy. Saw a small wooden pipe and I really wanted to get it as a souvenir for PO but I just don't have the money. I was getting chilly from all the rain so I went and got a Flat White from the café and it was actually really good! Then me and the Japanese chic met up and we headed for the bowling club. Some people were already there and we were just served burgers and some salad. Right next to the bowling club was a pub and me and Japanese had a couple drinks there before we had to rush to catch the tour bus before it leaves us behind. The tour guide was actually late, he got caught up with the German girl and her friends....

It was a really short tour, and for the rest of the day I just chilled and did some sudoku. The hostel had events every night like Pizza Night for $6 or Trivia Night. I pretty much kept to myself, didn't really enjoy all the noise and the crowd.