A DAY IN BYRON

EAT DAY & NIGHT - The Beachy- Beach Hotel and resort.Brunch in style – overlooking the main beach, best views in Town. It is a great position to experience lovely sunsets, with cool evening ocean breezes. Fish Heads Restaurant – relaxed atmosphere right on main beach, enjoying fresh local seafood, and cocktails.

EAT EVENING - Loft Byron Bay - Great views overlooking Jonson Street down to the beach with a relaxing atmosphere on the beach front, whilst enjoying a cocktail in very relaxing beautifully decorated decor. The chef from one of Sydney’s best venues, blends seasonality with where food comes from to create a contemporary Australian all-day casual dining menu. Its specialty is share style food and amazing desserts.

SHOP - Byron Photo Magic, get all your photographic needs in just the one shop.

Byron has many new upmarket shops offering locally made brands and many famous iconic surf wear, like Golden Breed, Girl Overboard with this years new swim wear with the BAKU range, and Quick Silver has the latest range of surf wear and surf accessories.

The Arnhem aesthetic is characterised by distinctive, signature prints of vintage inspired floral and earthy designs, vibrant colours, and summer nostalgia. Sustainability is in our Arnhem DNA. With a beautiful boutique in the heart of Byron Bay, come and meet our amazing team.

EXPLORE - Cape Byron Lighthouse - Is an active lighthouse located at Cape Byron. It is Australia’s most powerful lighthouse, with a light intensity of 2,200,000 cd. Cape Byron, the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, is about 3 kilometres northeast of the town of Byron, where the first sun rays hit the Australian mainland. There are many diverse walks around the Cape Headland precinct, down to The Pass and on to main Beach.

INDULGE - Eléme Day Spa at Crystalbrook Byron - Eléme Day Spa has been designed for the ever-evolving, everchanging, magnificent you. Forever inspired by the healing powers of Byron Bay, our menu is designed to flex, so our therapists can personalise each treatment to best suit you… your body, your skin, your mood on the day of your visit.

AUSSIE PUBS - The Beach Hotel - Overlooking the white sands and sparkling waters of Byron Bay’s Main Beach is a unique and iconic destination and Byron’s most famous pub. From excellent coffee to aftersurf pub lunches, family dinners, cocktails with friends. With private holiday accommodation, our comfortable and expansive venue has it all... just metres from the iconic main beach. www.beachhotel.com.au@beachhotelbyronbay

• The Rails – is where all the local meet after work, for fun and a cold beer. The Northern Hotel – is in the centre of Byron, good people watching spots.

The North Byron Hotel – catch the solar train from Byron Beach Station, byronbaytrain.com.au

WITH THE KIDS - The Farm - Perfect for a kid’s day out with many activities to keep them occupied. “The Farm is principally a working farm; we house a collection of micro-businesses all sharing in a common goal. We invite you to come and visit us and see for yourself how a farm operates, supports the environment and contributes to a healthier lifestyle. Our motto - Grow, Feed, Educate - inspires all that we do here and for the community at large. We believe that it’s the first-hand experience of seeing how food is grown and produced, that makes the eating so much more pleasurable. From this simple pleasure sprouts a curiosity and desire to learn more.

Markets

- 1ST Sunday Community 8am-3pm

- Thursday Farmers 7-11am

- Twilight Markets 4-9pm (Oct-April)

- Beachside Artisan Market 8am-3pm

Did You Know

Byron Bay is one of the most visited destinations in Australia, with our natural beauty on display and with a relaxing vibe. When visiting Byron simply cheer up unwind and chill out, this is our motto. Byron is offering great surfing beaches for swimming, snorkelling, scuba diving, kayaking, beach horse riding, diverse bush walking tracks, dolphin & whale watching activities. Check out our historic lighthouse museum. The lighthouse was built in 1901 at the most easterly point on the Australian mainland to warn ships, that this is Byron Bay the most Easterly point of the Australian mainland!

Visitor Information Centre

Old Stationmaster’s Cottage 80 Jonson Street, Byron Bay www.visitbyronbay.com

The local Bundjalung Aboriginal people’s name for the area is Cavanbah, meaning ‘meeting place’. Captain James Cook named Cape Byron after Royal Navy officer John Byron, circumnavigator of the world and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 9,246 people in Byron Bay. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.6% of the population. 64.0% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.9% and New Zealand 2.5%. 76.3% of people spoke only English at home.

Longboard surfers arrived in the 1960s and used natural breaks at The Pass, Wategos, and Cosy Corner, this is when surfing in Byron Bay really took off. This was the beginning of Byron Bay as a travellers’ destination, and by 1973, when the Aquarius Festival was held in nearby Nimbin, its reputation as a hippy, happy, alternative town was established, although tourism facilities remained minimal. From the 1980s, tourism began to develop in earnest, with the cash-poor surfers and hippies supplemented, and to a degree supplanted, by cashed-up conspicuous consumers. This in turn stimulated the development of retail precincts and accommodation, whilst many still enjoyed a surfers’ lifestyle with all year-round good surfing conditions.

Today, Byron Bay is one of the most up-market residential areas on the Australian east coast with the growth in multi-million-dollar mansions now pushing the median value of house sales up beyond AU$2.5 million in 2019, over a 100% increase since 2013, based on 2018 data from realestate.com.au and more recently since Covid 19 lockdowns, many people can work from home and live where they like, increasing values even more with 30% growth in property values in just 3 months in 2020 .

As at 2019, the town is cited as having around 9,000 permanent residents, while being visited by over 2.4 million visitors each year spending almost $800M in Byron Shire.

At the same time, the town has not lost its attraction to a diverse range of visitors including surfers, backpackers and visitors interested in the natural attractions of the area and relaxed lifestyle. Byron also supports a healthy cross section of creative artists, craftspeople and musicians, while its more recent hippy/ new age past is reflected to a degree in a prevalence of alternative “newage” shops, “spiritual” services such as meditation and yoga classes, and holistic healing/’wellness’ retreats.

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