Cape Byron in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales was named in 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook after the Baron John Byron, notable, sober navigator grandfather of the poet Byron—the club footed, scandalous and flamboyant romantic of Regency London.
Byron Bay is a surfer’s wet dream: from the macho rebel years of the 1960s to the mainstream unisex ubiquity of now. Long boarders, short boarders, retro boarders, boogie boarders and kooks invade the magnificent
