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Of course! We used Two Brothers and couldn't recommend them enough. We let them know we were wanting to go to Java and they were the only company we could find that allowed this! Service was great, bike was basically new

Right there with you matey ...... l lived there for 7 years and left as the first too tall buildings began to appear ...... too beautiful and close to stay secret

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I disagree, it's a great place to visit!

Ssssshhhh don’t tell anyone - let’s just keep it between ourselves OK 😉

@thommo6331 ahhh yes 😉😉🧏‍♂️🧏‍♂️

Amazing!!!

Yeah it's ridiculous!

Probably was but unfortunately we missed the boat on that one by a few years 😂

As was the rest of the country

@sinbadasia are you saying your not a fan of Australia now?

@@Rkbackpacking definitely not a fan. Australia is a sinking ship. It use to be the Lucky country. I'm 43 I've seen big changes and I'm sure older Australians have also.

@lukeArmstrong524 wow that's interesting, along our travels of just the east coast we have found some absolute gems, of course the main tourist spots are just that but there are definitely some beautiful parts

I understand what people used to see but we couldn't see it when we were there. It's a nice place but so is at least 80% of the east coast!

@@doc2590 Cause it's NSW's Gold Coast . Always try to beat QUEENSLAND.

@christophermurphy5454 so would you say queensland is better than NSW?

Yep we found loads that could easily be compared to there, the whole coast of Australia is a beautiful place!

That sounds like the dream to be fair 😔

you were lucky mate. Us younger ones are stuck in a woke prison world

There is light at the end of the tunnel 😅 do you live there?

@Rkbackpacking Sorry no not an influencer or how ya spell it .Media who're maybe .

The crowds weren't really there when we were there but yes definitely over priced!

Undoubtedly byron is a beautiful place, we dont deny that! What your saying may have been true in the past but when we were there it, at peak season, it was no where near as busy as we would have imagined, maybe we were just lucky. Are you saying your disagreeing with the gentleman we spoke to?

@@Rkbackpacking So many comparisons to previous times. The generation before this bloke would be saying very different things to what he is saying. Like comparing apples to oranges. We have an economic crisis going on worldwide right now, thus bringing the numbers down, as people can’t afford it and Byron is expensive these days, as opposed to say 10 years ago, when it was much cheaper but Byron is still heaving with people these days. Used to much quieter and way more down to earth. True hippies and artists. Byron is still a Mecca for artists and musicians, produce a lot of talent but again, they all live in the hinterland and that these days, Byron is for the rich, developers (unfortunately) and for tourists. As for what this bloke says, not entirely true. There are still cheap van backpackers around; they just got out of Byron because of council restrictions put on them. U go out into the hinterland, other suburbs u will find the vans, cooking breakfast in the carpark.. as for the ones eating at Bayleaf.. they are just long stay tourists really. They were around in his day just in smaller numbers and in a less gentrified area, which Byron has become. They are just wealthy tourists, wannabe hippies that do yoga but won’t live out of a van or eat noodles! 😂

@@Rkbackpacking also, locals don’t live in Byron, they live in the hinterland.. surrounding suburbs.. as I said, town is for the imported rich, the developers and tourists, which have taken over a once amazing place. Still is to some degree but has definitely been exploited.

Agree with what he said about Byron dying to a certain degree, it has. The nightlife has dimmed, everything is expensive.. I guess I wouldn’t say it has died but chartered a new course, directed by the developers and the rich. Even tho all these changes have happened, I still love it here.. no other place like it, just need to get out of Byron town to find it.

Good luck

There really is, the whole thing was a bit eye opening and not what we expected at all.

Thank you - we've left 😅

Thanks for your comment 🙂

Same goes for aussies in London

Oh 😂 silly brits ey, what's the correct pronounceation

Its not really Sydney is a shit hole, qld and wa is spectacular best beaches

We loved Sydney!

It definitely depends what you're after, having explored the east coast we found different parts great for different reasons. Beaches weren't the reason we came to Sydney :)

That makes so much sense, unfortunately in England that's the same where people don't pay

😂 great word

Google says different :)

@Rkbackpacking And some of us live here. Use a different search engine once in a while maybe. And maybe don't just read a search engines cookie cutter reply. Engage your brain. You're nowhere near the outback as any Australian familiar with that area will happily inform you.

@bibleboy6611 "happily inform you" but also be incredibly rude and dismissive at the same time. Thanks for taking the time to comment but maybe next time try and go about it in a nicer way...have a good day :)

@@Rkbackpacking I'm not the only person to point this out to you. And, you're not the first person to make this mistake, and you're unlikely to be the last. And the great thing is, you get to respond with your intellect, or your emotions. Hooray!

But great to access straight from the campsite :)

Ahhh ok we didn't know about that one. Will check it out next time. And yes maybe, although its a matter of perspective compared to some countries, eg Switzerland etc. But obviously within Australia some cities will be more than others. Thanks for your comment though

Absolutely fine 🙂 worth every penny

Thanks for the comment

"Roma Queensland is an Queensland Outback town in the Maranoa Region of Queensland Australia and is about 480km or a 5-and-a-half-hour drive from Brisbane." Google would disagree my friend

@@Rkbackpacking I know where Roma is, and it is not in the outback, it is really just a regional town. I don't care what 'Google' says. But hey. what would I know? I have only spend decades travelling across the centre of the country.

​@@MichaelSwinbourneYep. It's nowhere near the outback. Not even close. Why do people say stuff like that?

​@@RkbackpackingIn this case, Google is having a laugh. According to some web pages, including Wikipedia, the outback covers almost all of Australia. This just ain't so. Although Wikipedia draws the boundaries badly, the definition isn't too bad : 'The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush.' Large portions of Australia are the 'bush', and where you were in Queensland might be classified as the bush, but absolutely not the outback, although I wouldn't describe it as either. Maybe 'rural' Queensland. It's not the outback, nowhere near it.

It was the head gasket, would have happened regardless but thanks for the comment 🤟

@@Rkbackpacking head gaskets only happen due to lack of fluid or a broken pipe when traveling in high temps an using air conditioners cars often expell water as a re;eif when shut down after long drives thus over 3 days low water in the cooling system reason needs to check coolant levels daily when traveling not as applicable in teh cooler UK car hire company should have explained that too u as well

Yeah we have been corrected a few times 😅 thabks

Fair trading is who you should contact regarding what's happened. They'll help you.

Thank you both!

@@Rkbackpacking on a brighter note, it's not an Aussie adventure if the car doesn't die in the middle of nowhere, I've had to hold wires together on the ignition, while my girlfriend at time was driving, down a hill on a narrow road at night, would get hot and we'd lose lights, truck boring down on us, we'd forgotten to fix the dodgy wiring I'd done pulled over, in a torrential rain, a day or 2 earlier lol

@@Rkbackpacking she'll be right just take our advice and you'll be sorted in no time. 👍😉

We started with the desert 🤣🤣

An amazing place to camp!!

Thanks, in England it's commonly known as maccy ds 😀

Amazing thanks 😅

There was method to the madness, albeit not much 😅 as we had a limited number of days and had to return the vehicle to the start we wanted the shortest route, however we didn't realise the shortest route was the shortest by 3 hours and goes through emptiness 😂 little lesson for us there!

@ Fair enough. I suppose next time you have to have realistic expectations. Generally if you’re going drive from Brisbane to Cairns, you need at least a week to make it worthwhile. Otherwise you may as well plan ahead. Fly and hire a van up in Cairns. It’s not a great time to be there anyway. It’s oppressively hot and humid 24/7. 25c min to 35C max with high humidity. You need air con 24/7. Far better to work drives from Sydney to Brisbane at this time of year or further south. Take your time if you only have limited periods. 7 days say. Otherwise you spend most time driving, not stopping to enjoy places etc Better to be in Australia through autumn. Start in the south and work your way north from Melbourne. You’ll get warm weather most of the way and if you reached Cairns by May, the days are really pleasant but still humid.

@LesGray-i9p yeah we found out about the heat, ended up buying freezer packs to sleep with as a kind of cold water bottle 😅 but we sped up to cairns and slowly drove back down enjoying the best of the east coast. It all worked out in the end

We wanted to stay to see for ourselves and to be honest we agree, glad we didn't have longer. We have a full in depth video coming out soon about expectations vs Reality of it

Not entirely sure we understand but thanks for the comment 😅

It has been one of our favourite places to see unfortunately we only had a limited amount of time and also were going off what info we could find on Google or reddit etc. We will have to do monarto zoo when we come back as its has had the most recommendations, also love a good view point, thank you!