Byron Bay, it's not a coastal Australian paradise anymore


Welcome to Byron Bay, NSW – a place I used to think of as paradise, although now I'm not so sure. You never used to have to queue to get in there. Before the highway from Brisbane was fixed up you could cruise into Byron at any time of the year, grab a park, get your shirt off and relax. But the hippies were never going to have this place to themselves for long. 

Once the road got better and the word got out, people started arriving: day-trippers from Queensland; family holiday-makers from Melbourne; cashed-up visitors with a nose for real estate development opportunities. Read the full travel article here.

Byron Bay