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Hervey Bay Slideshow
Hervey Bay
Travel Blogs from Hervey Bay, Australia
Road Trip!!
... in our surprising luxurious hire car at midday and headed off to the unknown, well not exactly we had a 4 hour drive north to Hervey Bay with printed instructions. It was a fun road trip thou with lots of singing, radio flicking and a bit of napping by ...
Looking for a rainbow
... time. The roads over here are just dead straight and long with nothing but trees and dust around. Eventually we came across Tin Can Bay were we stopped to admire the view and catch some rays. After a short while thou we realised we had actually set up ...
A Long Walk
Took a long walk along the beach at Hervey Bay (the whale watching capital of the world), it was pouring when we started out and it didn't look that far from our Motel to the port where we were sailing from in the morning. Hmmm...... 13 Kilometers (8.5 ...
Fraser Island Trip
Hervey Bay was the next stop to do Fraser Island. Nearly everyone we've met has said it was a must do so we booked to do a 2 night 4x4 camping trip. We stayed one night in Beaches Hostel before the trip, they were brill and it was a great hostel. They ...
Fraser Island
Jeg kom til Hervey Bay torsdag og troede det var fredag; jeg havde koert bil i fire timer og var lidt oer, men grundet et teleopkald til Danmark fandt jeg ud af at det var torsdag. Det gav mig lige en ekstra dag. Saa ind i bilen og sove. Hurtigt smut ...
Sand....Everywhere!
Accumulate a collection of suburbs and stick 'em by the Tasman Sea opposite the world's largest sand island. And whatdya get? Hervey Bay (pronounced the same way as Jordan's son.) It's a strange place I'll give it that. Parts of it feel like little ...
Hervey Bay
On the 14th we catch the bus to Hervey Bay, staying at 'Fraser Roving'. The hostel is really spacious with pool, bar etc & we get a room with a balcony. The main reason for our stop here is a trip to Fraser Island. We will be going on a 2 night 3 ...
Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay I arrived in Hervey Bay and found the beaches to be quite beautiful. I'd been to Hervey Bay before, many years ago, when we bought a group of school kids up here to go to Fraser Island for school camp. It was as I remembered, although ...
Hervey Wallbanger
afternoon blog-addicts! only stayed here a day, another sleepy tourist surf/beach bum town. it was cool. we didn't do much but we played at the beach a while and then used the campsites BBQ facilities - the campsites are really good, so it was my ...
Hervey Bay Honey!!
... and it rained some more (our quest for the sun is back on), we left here and headed back to the dock and back to the hervey bay, where we had to wash the horrible metal (prison like) dishes before giving them back, even though they were dirty when we got ...
Fraser Island
... just took the time to chill out and were luck enough to see some giant lizards. we caught the 4pm ferry back to mainland Australia where we cooked the rest of our food in the evening for the group before we all dispersed in different directions. in the ...
Hervey Bay and Fraser Island
... the trip, went to a Thai noodle bar near the hostel in Pialba at night and then walked along the beach front - not much happening in Hervey Bay apart from Fraser Island! Wed 30/11 - Thurs 01/12/05: Fraser Island:- Picked up by car hire firm and got ...
Fraser Island
It took a couple of hours to drive from Rainbow Beach to Hervey Bay, we had a pizza from Dominos for lunch it was yummy!!! We only had it because it was cheap Tuesdays and it only cost $5-bargain! We are staying in a hostel with the company who we are ...
Hervey Bay
... , so there wasn't really that much to do there. We went to Fraser Island, which is just a short ferry ride away from Hervey Bay for a 3 day safari. We met our group the night before for a safety brief on the possible dangers on the island, snakes, ...
Mooloolaba to Hervey Bay
... around my rubber bouncy ball! As we had met a nice group of people a few of us met up after we got back to Hervey Bay and had a good pub dinner before saying goodbye. Onwards to the next destination, which was Rockhampton for the cowboy ...
Fraser Island Day 80
Today we began our 3 day camping trip on Fraser Island by mode of 4x4 jeep!! I was very nervous this morning as its tricky driving a 4x4 jeep in general, let along on the beach, especially having to look after 8 people, with their lives in my hands so to ...
Fraser Island Day 81
Our next destination on Fraser Island was Indian's head, a lookout over part of Fraser Island, it took us about an hour to get there via 4x4, trying to avoid soft sand and the tide, however we did get stuck in the soft sand, luckily someone nearvy was ...
Hervey Bay and Fraser Island
... , so I will have to be a passenger with one of the strangers driving. Maybe I will learn manual transmission tomorrow. Update: Hervey Bay was not my speed, but Fraser Island was very unique and mostly incredible. Since it is such a huge island of ...
Hervey Bay and a beached whale!
... only had to share with a couple of other guests, it certainly was the Friendly Hostel! We spent a couple of days exploring Hervey bay, we witnessed a beach whale being rescued on the beach , ate some more of Pauls favourite locally caught Tiger Prawns ...
Hervey Bay - walking around the town ...very tired
We arrived very early in the morning in Hervey Bay. We hadn't booked any accommodation and only had a rough idea of which would be good one and which less so. As we got out of the bus we could see 5 backpacker-hostel-pickup-busses lined up in the car park ...
Wonderful Fraser Island
... !. A lovely Traditional Christmas Dinner, full marks to Lettie, is followed by various silly games and many drinks. The long drive to Hervey Bay was rewarded with seeing the lovely Sereno Villa which will be our home from home for the next 2 nights. This ...
Fraser Island
After arriving in Hervey Bay we went in search of trips out to Fraser Island. Another early start (7am pickup) we joined the exclusive tour for Fraser Island. Once bording the ferry we sat on the top deck enjoying the sunshine before landing at 'moon ...
HERVEY BAY/ FRASIER ISLAND
Hey all! I've literally only got a couple of minutes to type. It's 7:15 in the morning and we head off from Hervey Bay on a ferry to Frasier Island, the world's largest sand island, full of exotic Australian wildlife. I'm with a group of ...
The Attenborough's
... of there, it was mid afternoon on a week day! After our near bumming experience we headed for the camp site and took off for Hervey Bay first thing. On arrival, we got out and went for a leak, back in McLovin she wouldn't start again! So another RAC ...
Fraser Island
... . I was rubbish at throwing the boomerang but managed to get a sound out of the didge. We passed through endless forests to Hervey Bay, just in time for sunset. At sunset hundreds of fruitbats flew out of the trees. They were really big - maybe 40cm ...
Fraser Island
Where do I start here. Fraser Island is many peoples highlights of their trip to Australia. It is a gorgoeus Island of the East coast where you hire and self drive a 4x4 and camp out with a car full of 8. you follow the other groups aswell (usually ...
Whale Watching in Hervey Bay
... home in Canada, it's the opposite down under.) We chose to go and see these massive creatures for ourselves when we were in Hervey Bay; and it was worth every penny! We found so many whales, it was incredible. the first 2 large whales that we ...
Be Dingo Safe...
Having taken the Greyhound bus and travelled for 5 hours north, we arrived in the coastal town of Hervey Bay, the jumping off point for all trips to Fraser Island. Our hostel was a fair way out of town so we were reliant on our hostel and its bar to ...
Lets Off Road!
This is a top pick! After a fantastic trip of Whitsundays it was full steam ahead on my own to Hervey Bay to explore Fraser Island (Olivia has gone forth on her own elswhere as she has done Fraser before). Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island and the only place ...