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Hervey Bay Slideshow
Hervey Bay
Travel Blogs from Hervey Bay, Australia
Obligatory East Coast Adventure: Day 17
... ; There. Now aren't you glad I'm here to make your mistakes so you don't have to? Anyway, we made it down to Hervey Bay and booked into Woolshed Backpackers because they have double rooms for $23 each a night which is pretty cool considering we'd been ...
East-coast Oz camper tour Part 1
... . We drove through quite a scenic little town called Bowen on our journey today which is where large chunks of the movie "Australia" starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman was filmed. As we passed through we saw a few tourist signs for an attraction ...
And here is your 4x4
Flew into Queensland and rented a 4wd jeep to take onto Fraser Island tomorrow. Only real rules are don`t drive it in salt water and don`t go near the dingo`s. Seemingly easy enough. So long as I can figure out the left hand side of the ...
The wrong way or the scenic route.
... , stopped and turned around. We knew we must have missed the sign. We also realised that none of the 4x4's we'd seen were Bay 4WD vehicles, and after heading north for 20 minutes we spotted the sign for Dilli Village - oops! Of course, with all the ...
fraser island
Hi all. So from the whitsundays Nell and I travelled on a long night bus, not getting much sleep to hervey bay. This where we went to fraser island from. We were put into a group with six other people. so 8 altogether. Three of us decided we wnted to ...
Na lunch mielismy skorzane kurtki :)
Kolejny dzien spedzony dla odmiany... na rybach :) Hervey Bay idealnie sie do tego nadaje, wiec od rana poszlismy sprawdzic czy moze cos innego plywa przy krotkim molo (wczesiej lowilismy z kilometrowego). Mowiac„cos" mam na mysli rekiny, poniewaz ...
Rains' in town of Newly Weds & Nearly Deads!!!
... the opposite direction to the Magpie Zone and was unharmed! Stopped off at an art gallery in town before heading south towards Hervey Bay. Had lunch at a quiet little spot called Toogoom. That is the place to fish!!! A fellow came in with a ...
Hervey Bay
... to play the didgeridoo and throw boomerangs. Jenna got smoked in the back by a fellow Canadian's not so good boomerang skills. Now onto Hervey Bay. Well to start off, the only reason people stay in Hervay Bay is because it is the gate way to Fraser ...
Hervey Bay
G'day Well we have moved up the coast to Hervey Bay today. We are off to Fraser Island tomorrow, its the biggest sand Island in the World and is supposed to be amazing, so will let you know tomorrow. No pics for a few days though as this internet ...
Hervey Bay
... is pretty good. (That means you feel like you won't catch anything from the toilet!). The main idea of coming to Hervey Bay however was that its the main gateway to Fraser Island, a tropical island with beautiful beaches, waterfalls, a massive lake ...
Happy Campers i 2006
... om seiltur paa Withsundays(vi gleder oss), saa Mari x2 og Ane kjoepte en pakke som ogsaa inkluderte camping paa Faser Island utenfor Hervey Bay. Vi hadde ogsaa greid aa overtale Lauren til aa moete oss, saa sammen dro vi til verdens stoerste sandoey, ...
Naechster Zwischenstop
Noch einen weiteren Zwischenstop auf dem Weg zum Rainbow Beach. Ein paar Opossums geaegert, getrunken, Daenen kennengelernt und am Strand eingeschlafen... Mehr gibts eig. nicht zu erzaehlen ;) ...
Fraser Island
Having arrived in Fraser Island expecting the worst, we were pleasantly surprised to see the sun was actually present! We were however not as quick to think that it would stay this way. We checked into Koalas, where again we were given a nights free ...
England 1 Paraguay 0, England 2 Trinidad 0
... 's new favourite person - something to do with the gangly legs and arms. Not the best performance, but a win's a win, I say. Hervey Bay is a pretty quiet, old-people's town, but tourists and backpackers congregate here to go to Fraser Island for a few ...
More Whale Watching - They better be good....
... me I was there on a red-hot tip-off from random traveller folk. OK, so i took a detour and got checked-in in Hervey bay. Actually me reasons were two-fold. First off, my old colleagues Rachael & Vanessa have been heading up the east-coast and ...
Obligatory East Coast Adventure: Day 18
... and push up benches and of course cycling machines for the masochist at heart. At least our bikes got us somewhere. I decided that Hervey Bay wasn't the place for me, far too energetic. We got back to the hostel and limped to reception to book our Fraser ...
Marathon Coach Trip
Well I’ve made it to 50 days! It certainly feels like at least twice that long. I’ve not missed a day with the blogging and that’s how it will continue till I’m on UK soil. I had to get checked out of Koala’s before 10; ...
Hervey Bay - We saw whales!
Had an awful night. Bella's fault! Got picked up in time by the Blue Dolphin courtesy bus and spend the most amazing day on the waters off Fraser island to watch wale mums with their little baby whale. Also met two lovely Germans - Wibke und ...
Whale-Watching Extravaganzza
Did I mention that I won a raffle prize at Irish Murphy's in Noosa? That's right, a $115 whale-watching tour! Saturday was a day to chill out, relax at the YHA and go whale-watching in the afternoon. The bus picked me up and took me to the marina at ...
A Whale of a Time
Pulling into the shopping centre at Hervey Bay, the first thing I thought was that the town is a lot bigger than I picutred. I had images of small, idylic little fishing town that had a few charter boats for whale watching, but what I found was a fairly ...
Let's go offroad!!!!
So the next stage of our journey was a bit more adventurous. We arrived in Hervey Bay on tuesday evening, met a couple of girls and bedded down in a dorm. The next day we had to be up at 6am for a briefing on how to protect yourself if a dingo attacks and ...
Fraser chuffin' Island!
... bag and smashed a bottle of Toohey's on the tiled floor, which in turn punctured a bag of wine - great! So to summarise Hervey Bay/ Fraser Island...it was pretty shite! I think we were just unfortunate with the weather and our group. If I ...
Capricorne Caves, Hervey Bay and Fraser Islands
... and sound show, that was great. We stopped in Rockie for a Big Mac as we were a bit hungover and continued all the way to Hervey Bay, getaway to Frasier islands. 14.04.09: The weather seems to get a bit better this morning for our trip to Fraser ...
Fraser Island
... worth it ------DEUTSCH----------- 12ter Mai bis 17ter Mai - Fraser Island Wir fuhren weiter entlang der Kueste nach Hervey Bay einer kleinen Siedlung an der Kueste und gleichzeitig der Hafen fuer die Faehrne nach Fraser Island einer der ...
Noosa and Fraser Island
... swimming pool, bar and restaurant and relaxed communal area with comfy leather sofas. I didn't know backpacking could be this good!!! Hervey Bay is the main starting point for trips Fraser Island which Michelle and I did for our last few days ...
Whitsundays and Fraser Island
... not to have the camera AGAIN. When we arrived back from the sailing trip we got on an over night bus down to Harvey bay. We'd heard really mixed reports about Fraser island so were a little skeptical. There were a few hidden extras that we ...
Frazer Island
... she claimed they treated her as a slave but they strongly deny this...who knows... So me and Tia headed 6hrs north to Hervey Bay, a quiet coastal town where even the Irish bar closes at 10.30pm (shameful!). We weren't in bed 5 minutes when we had to ...
A Little Off-Roading on Fraser Island
... 2 and a half. It wasn't a bad train ride and as is becoming the usual case was followed by a connecting mini bus into Hervey Bay from Maryborough West Train station. We were dropped off at the Transit Centre and called our accommodation for a free pick ...
Hervey bay and Fraser Island
Great time at Hervey Bay, whale watching was fantastic, gorgeous humpback whales up close and personal. Fraser Island was brilliant, beautiful trees, hundreds of years old and the beach drive was fabulous. The worlds largest sand island is amazing. Long ...
