Byron Bay Photo Gallery

We visited Australia in 1997 during an around the world trip, and spent six months in Auz. Byron Bay was only meant to be a weekend stop over between Coffs Harbour and Brisbane, but turned into a 3 month stay!!! which was one of the highlights of our trip. 

I saw the Sunday night performance of Shane McGowan & The Popes at the 14th annual International East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay in 2003.

The Byron Bay Triathlon is an annual event attracting competitors from all over Australia, and the world.

Our visitors have been asking for images of the streets of Byron... We've taken quite a few and here they are. All of these pics were taken circa 2003. A fair bit has changed since then.

David Kemp has lived in Byron and been taking photographs for years. Here is a selection of some his interesting shots.

I saw Kasey Chambers on Friday afternoon at the 14th annual International East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay. As Kasey is one of my daughter's favorites, I was holding her up & she took these photos.

Meet some visitors, find out where they're from, how often they've visited and what they like best about Byron.

From all reports, New Years Eve in Byron Bay went off with out any problems. Some reports suggested as many as 40,000 people were in town for the big night. Darren McCoy was there with digital camera blazing, capturing the variety and spectacle of the night.

Some old digital photos (resolution is pretty poor) from the East Coast Blues Festival back in 2004 when it was held at Red Devil Park. Includes pictures of Dr John, James Brown, Solomon Burke, John Butler, Steve Earle & Femi Kuti.

Learning to surf in warm and gentle waves, surf with the dolphins! Photos by Shane Goodwin.

I saw the Friday night performance Of Johnnie Johnson at the 14th annual International East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay in 2003.

Michael Finger of Forest Fotos, took these shots early 2002.

Paul Massie is a keen local wilderness photographer.

Laurence McLeod took these shots of Byron Bay in 2000.

Josh is a local, who's lived in Byron Bay all his life.