The last part of my homestay and Byron

I do not have too much time to write this post so I think I will do it in more of a list format….

The last weekend of my homestay we stayed in a little cabin in Lennox Head (another beach town south of Byron Bay). It is unique because it has a freshwater lake that is stained brown from all the tea trees growing around it.

After the homestay we came back to Byron Bay and had a really cool sustainability workshop with a city planner. You can check out his website here.

Yesterday we had a big fieldtrip day! We started out the day at an organic farm that supplies food to the stores in Byron Bay. They gave us bananas, macadamia nut cookies, and lemon myrtle and davidson plum juice!

Next stop was a permaculture training farm. The women who runs it was been living there for about 20 years and she is a world expert on permaculture. As we were leaving a camera crew came from the Discovery Channel to interview her for a new show they are doing about the Australian Great Dividing Range. Everyone will have to look out for that one!

Then we went to the Rainbow Power Company outside of Nimbin, the marijuana capital of NSW (New South Wales). The company was started in the early 80s to provide alternative energy setups to people in Australia. We got to talk to the founder, Peter Pedals. He is a huge supporter of pedal power and he showed us the awesome bike that he rides to and from work. Now I am inspired to hook up the TV to a bike so I can feel productive at least some of the time .

The last stop of the night was at Peter’s (our Academic Director) house. He has GORGEOUS views from his veranda. If I lived there I would never want to leave. He and his wife Laura fed us a dinner of wonderful pizza and they even got out their ukuleles and sang us a song…..I got a video!

Now I am just back in Byron Bay, hanging around until Sunday when we start to make out way down to Tasmania. This week is also the Byron Bay Film Festival so I am going to see a few movies tonight and tomorrow! Yay for movies…..it has been too long since I have seen any.

The next time I post will probably be in about 2 weeks after Tazzie, as the locals call it because they shorten EVERYTHING, when I am in Melbourne for Easter.

~ by onlyfive on March 6, 2008.