Tweed Valley North New South Wales. I live in a volcanic crater that stretches from Banora Point in the North to Byron Bay in the South, approximately 60 km. Mount Warning is the core of the volcano. We live just inside on the northwest of the crater. It is volcanic soil, and the volcanic basin has its own climate. It is cooler than the Gold Coast, which is only a few kilometres north, and not as dry as the south and west expanses outside the crater.