Byron Bay, Australia 2011
By far my favorite place I travelled on my trip to Australia. The hostel where we stayed must have required all workers to be total babes, right on an incredible beach packed with surfers, and with the views of Mt. Warning to the left, a random bizarre island popping straight out of the water in front of you, and a lighthouse to your right, this is one of those places where you'll disappear from your reality and be perfectly happy without a watch for the rest of your life. Definitely recommend this hostel, the second you walk in you're part of the gang.
From our hostel we hiked to the lighthouse on the eastern-most edge of Australia's mainland, got to see whales migrating, and watched the most ape-shit-crazy sunset I've ever seen while listening to a random collaborative jam-sesh of about 30 people who climbed in off the surf to play whatever they could get their hands on. A local on the cliff said he moved to Byron because of the insane sunsets.
