Byron Bay has always attracted controversy. In the 1960s, there were said to be too many American surfers and their Australian counterparts. In the 1970s, there were too many hippies. In the 1990s ...

Byron Bay was a hippie haven then, a wide-eyed fever dream where shaggy barefoot locals and salt-crusted backpackers slept in vans while processions of Hare Krishna devotees kept the air filled ...