From Rainbow beach we made another bus journey to Hervey Bay, the jump point to Fraser Island. Hervey Bay itself isn't a very interesting town and on arrival I thought it seemed quite American as when you enter your just on a massive road lined with big shops and takeaways. The hostel we stayed in was luckily away from this area and right next to the beach!! it was really quite nice and we discovered our first outside gym!!! they just have these little stops all down the street with press benches, steppers, cross-trainers, allsorts! It is a really good idea to keep a country fit, although I dont think it could really be transferred to England, we'd need it under marquees and probably surrounded by locked down. On our first day in Hervey Bay
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