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Byron Bay, Australia Travel Video Guide

Travel Videos – Australia : Byron Bay (pop. 6130) It seems every backpacker must make the pilgrimage to Byron Bay. Once the centre for peace, love and alternative lifestyles, now home of a growing number of baby boomer ‘seachangers’ from capital cities down south. With this new mix, Byron is evolving, (and the real estate prices are going through the roof). Arrived in Byron Sunday night. Byron attracts creative types and also has a huge collection of practitioners of alternative health therapies. To try and capture this I am interviewing John Dahlsen an artist. John makes a daily trip to the beach where he collects plastic waste washed up the night before. From this waste he creates art pieces. I found his art to be like a double edged sword, I was both astounded by the beauty of his art, and repelled by the thought it was all collected from our beaches.

Posted in Oceania.

25 comments

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  1. cormickson Feb 12th 2011

    @JOONGSEIS Keep your opinions to yourself

  2. jakey2481 Feb 12th 2011

    @JOONGSEIS your a dick head.

  3. mccluskey Feb 12th 2011

    it was good in the 70s and 80s, i know that much. Now? meh. Its always been apparent that it would be turned into another sydneyfied place. To me it feels more and more like the places we left in the first place.

  4. IDGeneratorS Feb 12th 2011

    if you wan’t to visit a town like Byron Bay that isn’t swarming with tourists, just somewhere peaceful go to ocean shores, its only about 40 minutes south of Gold Coast

  5. JOONGSEIS Feb 12th 2011

    dont’ come to Australia we don’t want you here. Byron Bay is too crowded now with all the Scandi’s, Kiwis, Itys, Poms, Frogs, Krauts and Yanks

    So stay at home and don’t visit australia we don’t want you in our country

  6. Black1ion Feb 12th 2011

    PARKWAY DRIVE

  7. mavular Feb 12th 2011

    I’d hate to be islam, not with those terrorists and all.

    grow up kook

  8. steventrembath Feb 12th 2011

    get your countries right you fool

  9. nrg1901 Feb 12th 2011

    i wouldn’t be too proud being australian. not with that josef fritzl guy and all.

  10. Toeside9 Feb 12th 2011

    1:34′s kinda creepy on the topless tanners but, good little video! One of the nicest places I’ve heard to visit on the coast

  11. BigVolcanoNet Feb 12th 2011

    Couldn’t agree more. Your videos have a great style, Mark. But where do you find all the interviewees? You seem to get the most intersting people!

  12. overlander Feb 12th 2011

    Thanks BigVolcanonet
    Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt, that is half the fun
    So much better meeting a local than some celebrity host telling you what to buy ;)

  13. BigVolcanoNet Feb 12th 2011

    Overlander, you always find great locals to get interviews with. And the videos offer more than the usual ‘travel video” feel.

  14. liltango2008 Feb 12th 2011

    Step 1:Hold your breath
    Step 2:go to another video
    Step 3: add this comment
    Step 4:did you make it? if you did it, you are a good kisser
    Yup :)
    still holding it right now……( im dead)

  15. bethebrilliant123 Feb 12th 2011

    I’ve lived byron bay all my life and it’s now seriously losing it’s peaceful atmosphere because of the huge amount of traffic and renovation that’s been going on. Right now they’re building a HUGE backpackers right in the middle of town, and it’s hideous. If you want to get to town from the west side of byron, there’s only one road, and due to constant traffic, takes atleast half an hour to get there, just so you can buy your groceries!

  16. joshuarees2006 Feb 12th 2011

    loved byron bay….miss aus so much! going to def have to go out for a yr this time!!

  17. beardedswine Feb 12th 2011

    don’t come here it’s shit

  18. nbkthegame Feb 12th 2011

    omg railway hotel dammm i remember that pub!!!!!

  19. Yibyibdan Feb 12th 2011

    i need a holiday after watching this…great movie

  20. sallyannphotography Feb 12th 2011

    Great Job your doing I love the way you Have set out on your Adventure its been great watching your you tubes. I am actually a bit of a gypsy my self I love Australia I now live up the Gold coast for now and I find all Australia and Tasmania we have amazing country. Well done Over lander :) you doing what i would love to do

  21. 54spiritedwill54 Feb 12th 2011

    How lovely and gentle

  22. kookychew Feb 12th 2011

    yea…I lived there for 10 yrs and theres a good side and a very dark side to this fantastic area…..its like a modern town with its overpopulated streets amd theres no rules apart from trying to do whats best for you! Which means its very hedonistic….not a place to raise children, but others would beg to differ

  23. ruudopjoetjoeb Feb 12th 2011

    miss byron bay too. I was there about 10 years ago fo about 3 months. Im from Holland, I stil dream about it few times a month! so relaxed

  24. OiCh33ky Feb 12th 2011

    i love it, i got married at the lighthouse at byron bay teehee!! beautiful place :D

  25. seikokawabata Feb 12th 2011

    i miss byron bay… good video, i think;)


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