Blogs from Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Hi from Townsville!! Here it’s rainy but hot. Today we went to the Aquarium. I saw a Yoda fish and a giant shovelnose ray. (A Yoda fish is a fish that looks like Yoda but is actually called a remora!) I saw a weird, colourful lobster thing which looked like a weird, colourful, lobster thing which is why I described it that way. No school is cool but some days, (when we don’t have anything to do,) we have homework days when we do homework for most of the day. Yesterday, we spent 3hours playing on a water playground which had a huge bucket that every 20 seconds it tipped over and water went everywhere. A couple of weeks ago, we went on a “Whale watching tour” where we went on a boat and looked for ... read more

Just arrived in Hervey bay. I really want to to do a 4x4 self drive. So i've found a company that stick you in with 7 others to drive round the Island. Thought it would be a good way to meet other people. Haven't done much research into the company, but really can't be bothered. Hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the bum!?! lol.. I don't leave until tomorrow, just gonna chill to then.... read more

Fraser Island… Fraser Island… Fraser Island… This will probably be quite a long post, so I would advise that you make a cup of tea and then sit down to enjoy it. I’m adding this when I’m halfway through: it’s a REALLY long post First, a little bit of what I’ve learnt about Fraser Island. Fraser Island is the world’s largest sand island, and although it is made of sand, it has rainforest growing all over it - which is strictly speaking scientifically impossible. It’s a world heritage site, due to it’s cultural (Aboriginal) and natural significance, so although there are a handful of hotels/hostels/resorts on the island, it’s very much an eco-friendly holiday. Which generally, in my experience, translates into poor hygiene!!! Just a random fact: on the island there are trees growing called Satinay ... read more

Today a bus ride to Hervey bay, a great really great hostel, with a pool !!! just b4 i left Noosa one of the guys said to come outside he had something to show me, now i remembered what mummy told me about men like that - so I went very causiously and was rewarded with a 3ft long lizzard outside the room, dropped everything and caught him on video !!! very exciting. The weather has hotted up today, scorching by the pool - it was lovely to feel the sun on me again after the last two days of cloudyness. I'm in a 4 bedded dorm with its own bathroom, but theres a man in there that is a dead ringer for Mr Bean, honest-a-god !!! quite un nerving i can tell u, anyway theres ... read more

We were up at 6am ready to leave Pommie Palace behind. Shorty gave us a lift to Surfers Paradise where we could catch our bus up the East Coast. He had to hot wire his car to get it started. It was torrential rain outside so within minutes of arriving in Sufers, we were drenched. Fortunately they have lockers at the bus station so we were able to drop off our bags while we went in search of a café. Both of us wrapped colourful scarves round our heads to protect our hair and attracted some funny looks. We looked like little Indian women… wearing flip flops. This rain was miserable and we quickly established there was only one thing for it… we’d simply have to get pissed. And that is how we found ourselves searching ... read more