Lake Ainsworth Campground
1,442 kilometers around Australia
We woke up this morning to an orange haze and soon discovered that eastern Australia was enveloped by a huge dust storm. We spent the morning working inside the van with all the windows and doors closed. But as the day pushed on and the sky grew eerier we decided to pack up and drive north. We weren’t able to escape the dust and it was actually hard to enjoy the view because we simply couldn’t see it. Check out these photos from Sydney and Brisbane (by the way the distance between these two major cities is about 1,000 km). It seems to be worse in the cities, but we’ve definitely developed a layer of dust on pretty much everything we own. It’s not hard to breath or anything, but my eyes sting a little and my boogers are brown. Tonight we are camped in the small quaint town of Lennox Head, just 20 km south of Byron Bay. 
We’ve heard it’s beautiful and will hopefully be able to actually see the coastline tomorrow morning. Now it’s time for dust . . . cough cough . . . I mean . . . beef tacos.
I can’t believe I almost forgot. We stopped off at one tourist attraction today. It was another big thing . . . this time a big prawn. It was worse than the banana in Coffs Harbor.