Blogs from Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 9

From Noosa we travelled further north to Hervey Bay. This is principally the gateway for Fraser Island but it is also the "whale watching capital of the world" so we could hardly refuse the opportunity to go meet some friendly whales. It is a well-known whale watching spot in July to October as Hervey Bay is en route of the humpback whales southern migration down to the Antartic waters in the southern hemisphere summer months. Hervey Bay is a sheltered bay where female whales come to give birth in a safe environment before sticking around in the warm waters of the bay for a couple of months. This allows their calves, weighing 1.5 tonnes at birth, to up their weight to about 4 tonnes, by drinking 600 litres of milk a day!! so they are large ... read more

We got as far south as Proserpine and stayed at the caravan park. In the morning we had a swim in the heated Olympic pool. It was fun. Left and went through Dingo Beach and stayed to look at Airlie Beach. They were both nice places. Then we drove to Eungella and stayed at the camping ground at the top of the valley. We drove to the dam and got there before 10am. It was nice, so we all decided to stay the night. I had a dip so I could call my family a chicken. Then Dad & Kate cooked tea, while I lit a fire. Next we stayed at Carmila Beach. Kate and I went down to the beach. In the morning the tide was a long, long, way out. We took about 45 ... read more

So, I'm in Oz-land, and its fantastic!! Weather similar to some parts of SA, but first-world :p there are a lot of similarities actually, its strange. Still miss SA and my people there though, but having a total bawl!! Soooo, on the 28th (Tue) I got up at 6:15am for the airport!! Had brekkie there and said bye to Paul and Inny (after they insisted on buying me some Australian and American dollars!!) was a very kool visit, went better than the last one I'd say :) so hoyed it on the plane, watched some movie, can't remember what it was dammit!! Arrived in Perth and went through their ridiculous customs and had to declare my teabags :p and they checked my shoes for soil (cuz clearly, soil will kill Australia) waited for Linda, talked to ... read more

Day 70 - Petrie Park, Tiaro to Hervey Bay Crikey it was cold last night! Brrrrrrrrr! When the alarm went off at 6.15 this morning we both groaned but we really wanted to see the platypus again and figured our best opportunity to do that was when everyone else was still asleep and the wildlife was only just waking up! Catch them unaware, that was the plan!! We grabbed a hot drink each, a towel to sit on, the binoculars, oh and of course the camera! We’d found a little spot yesterday which gave us a good view of the river but we were sort of hidden behind some overhanging branches! Sitting quietly at that time of the morning is easy and we’d only been there about ten minutes when we had our first glimpse of ... read more

We’ve been very busy bees the last few weeks. Work has been going great for both of us and we’ve really settled into city living. We’ve moved apartment in the last few weeks. Found a lovely 2 bed apartment, just a couple of hundred yards away from our old place. It’s right on Hyde Park. We now have a gorgeous view of St. Mary’s Cathedral and Hyde Park, with Sydney Harbour in the background. We still have our gym and swimming pool in the building, so we’re still keeping our high living standards, nothing but the best for us! Haha We finally brought our camera for a trip around the city to the Queen Victoria Building (QVB), a lovely shopping centre where Lynsey gets the bus to work daily, and Town Hall. Next stop was Hyde ... read more