{"id":162,"date":"2008-06-24T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/2008\/06\/squeaky-sand-and-screaming-trees\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:42:37","slug":"squeaky-sand-and-screaming-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/squeaky-sand-and-screaming-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans Head: Squeaky Sand and Screaming Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evans Head (about an hour south of Byron Bay) was a surprising treat and a little sample of absolute paradise. Knowing we would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/kayaking-through-paradise\/\">kayaking the following morning<\/a> on Evans River, we pulled into the nearby caravan park. We were surprised to discover it was completely full, save for a handful of un-powered sites in less-than-optimal locations. Since we felt short on other options, we took it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post was originally published in 2008. It has since been updated for accuracy of links and content.&nbsp;<\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We immediately understood the appeal when we went on an extremely short walk and ended up at a pristine almost deserted stretch of beach. Now, we know beaches. We lived in Hawaii for six months after all. But it was upon landing on this beach that we realized why most Australians choose to live on the coast. It was one of the most beautiful sights we had seen yet on our World Nomads adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before we left Hawaii, a friend of ours said that there is a beach on the east coast of Australia that has sand so fine that it actually squeaks. We figured that after his passing through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/arts-and-ahem-culture-in-nimbin\/\">Nimbin<\/a>, he was probably a little too high to be a reliable source of information on this topic, and sloughed it off as rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But when we stepped onto the beach, and actually heard the sand squeak under our feet, we were shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis is the squeaky sand Zero talked about!\u201d we exclaimed, dragging our heels all around the beach and feeling the unbelievably soft sand between our toes and fingers. Who knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One sunset and about a million pictures later, we came back up to the park to see (or rather, hear) another amazing thing: birds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-sounds-of-australian-birds\/\">Australian birds<\/a> of all kinds were noisily announcing their resting place for the night and calling on their spouses to join them in the nest. One tree in particular was so full of birds that the tree itself appeared to be screaming. Each leaf was crying out in miniature fits of agony, and all together they formed a chorus of tiny tortured souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Once the trees stopped screaming as much and darkness encroached, the flying foxes began their dance. We were camped directly under a section of forest that held (no exaggeration) hundreds if not thousands of flying foxes. What are flying foxes, you ask? Bats. Big bats. Really big bats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We spied our foxy friends earlier in the day, all hanging upside down in the trees. One tree devoid of leaves actually looked to be in full foliage for all the bats resting up for a night of\u2026well\u2026bat stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Enjoy this video of our Evans Head experience, and read the rest of the story over at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.worldnomads.com\/blue_skies\/post\/20601.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Nomads HERE<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evans Head (about an hour south of Byron Bay) was a surprising treat and a little sample of absolute paradise. Knowing we would be kayaking the following morning on Evans River, we pulled into the nearby caravan park. 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