On the surface its a small town/village in the heart of lush green mountains, but look furthur and things are a bit different. In the 1970's it was the venue for the Aquarius Festival, a gathering of uni students, alternative lifestylers and general hippies. So now its crowded with strange hippies, and you can't walk more than 5 meters without being asked if you wanna buy some weed/shrooms/hash etc.
Anyway, after staying a night in the strangest hostel ever (you could sleep in a teepee if you felt the urge), we drove into the mountains of NightCap National Park. It was such a horrendous drive that we got there mid-afternoon so just had time to visit Protestors Falls, which was beautiful.
The next day we drove way inland, to a place called Tenterfield. It was quite late and the accommodation options were quite limited so we ended up staying in a "cabin" in a trailer-park, how upmarket! The reason we were in Tenterfield (which is in the middle of nowhere) was to visit Bald Rock, a 200m tall lump of granite, sticking out of the ground....think small granite version of Ayres Rock.
Getting close to nature in Nimbin
We decided to build a dam in Nightcap National Park....for some reason!
Protestors Falls (it had been a dry week)
Sara was really proud of the cabin!
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