Hervey Bay

We left Jimmy's, went past Gympie and Maryborough (love the colonial buildings here) and on to Hervey Bay. This can be known as the hip and knee capital or the nearly wed and nearly dead capital, as basically there are so many really old people who holiday or live here!! Or the backpackers who go over to Fraser Island.

At the caravan park we were at at Urangan, every night the bats would head out overhead and then turn and go to Fraser Island to eat insects. They would return by morning, and hang upside down in the trees across the way, and you could hear them chattering noisily to each other.

At least at Hervey Bay I did wear shorts and swimsuit for a few days, until it got cold here!! Then it was back to my big black coat!!

Hervey Bay has a very long jetty, but although you can fish off it, you can't take dogs on it, so we spent a lot of time, and I mean a real lot of time, just driving along the Esplanade checking for where you could take dogs, and then the tide wasn't right to fish anyway! Here when the tide goes out, it goes way out, as the bay is very flat.

Also a photo of Boat Harbour where the boats head off to Fraser Island, or Whale watching.