Besides getting eaten alive by bugs and mozzies, our trip to the Gold Coast / Byron was awesome.

Most days were filled with fishing, or should I say “trying to fish”. We never actually caught anything big enough to take home but it was fun nevertheless. Perhaps one of the strangest things was when G pulled in this bizarre looking … fish? I’m not even sure if you would call it a fish.

It was so slimy that you can see our reflection in the top left shot. Gross. We were more than happy to toss that one back in the water.

You can’t actually see it in this picture, but for some strange reason there were heaps of fish gliding across the waves only metres from the shore. It looked like the fish were surfing and catching waves, which kind of made me jealous cause it looked like so much fun. I’ve never seen fish surf before, there must’ve been something in the water.

Other days were spent eating and Op-shopping. I think we went a little crazy on the books: 7 Vogue Entertaining magazines and 3 vintage copies of Jane Eyre. Lugging them home was my least favourite part of the trip.

On the flip side, one of the funniest things was waking up to this one morning:

And then this the following morning:

The poor puppies look so tired after shredding the futon to bits. Luckily they left just enough mess to be comfortable.

After a few nights in Byron we headed back up to the Gold Coast for more R and R at Q1 Resort and Spa – the world’s tallest residential building. Just looking up at the building made me dizzy.