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A Byron Bay Attraction

By: The OZtralia Producers

Byron Bay is sure a great place to visit while on your trip to Australia. There is a neat place just outside of the main town center of Byron Bay called Cape Byron.

This is the most easterly point of the continent of Australia. With Cape Byron’s many lookouts you can spot sea life playing in the water. When we were there we saw dolphins and stingrays. You can also watch whales pass by during their migrating season.

Cape Byron was named by Captain James Cook while passing by here on May 15, 1770. Cook named the area “Cape Byron” to honor James Byron who circled the globe between 1764- 66.

The boat is positioned at the canal, ready to blast through the surf. The dive master tells us to hold on and I grasp firmly onto the closest bar I can find. I stick my head out over the side of the boat, much like a dog does when driving down the highway in a car. The surf splashes my face and I think to myself, “Wow, this is kind of neat!”Neat it wasscuba diving off the Gold Coast of Australia. This was my first dive since getting my PADI scuba open water certification in the USA last year. I had foolishly passed up amazing opportunities to dive in Hawaii, Brazil, South Africa, and Venezuela. I decided that I would wise up here in Australia.My two dive buddies and I surveyed the bottom of a reef not too far from the coast. I needed desperately to get off the boat because I started to feel sick rolling around on the waves. Once at the bottom, I felt like I was swimming in one of the salt water aquariums I spent so much time gazing at when mom and dad would take me to the pet store when I was just a lad.

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