But the more beaten-track trips north of Sydney, through hippy haven Byron Bay, which has awesome surf breaks.

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Owner Chris Gavaghan shares a Colonial-style home on 50 acres in the hinterland of Byron Bay with his wife, Yasmin.

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And as Queensland and Northern NSW's coffee industry grows, expect Brisbane and Byron Bay's roasters to be proudly using local beans too.

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Byron Bay is one of a great string of headlands with white-sand bays stretching up the New South Wales coast into Queensland.

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Together with six freelance employees, scattered across the globe from Byron Bay, Australia to Frankfurt, Ms. McDonald watches the weather and harvest conditions and communicates with the teams in Ecuador.

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They moved often, living near Byron Bay, a beachfront community in New South Wales, and on Magnetic Island, a tiny pile of rock that Captain Cook believed had magnetic properties that distorted his compass readings.

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Getting a satellite signal out of Perth, for instance, can involve lying prostrate on the ground in the public park next to the CBD with a receiver dish in one hand and a microphone in the other, a bodily feat that requires the kind of physical contortions that might test a Byron Bay yoga instructor.

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