Hervey Bay Travel Blogs

4 week trip to Australia 15 dec tm 11 jan 08.

I spent the next three days in Hervey Bay, honing new survival skills whilst trying to make the most of what a small town can offer when you’re living on the streets. It’s interesting how all those simple everyday tasks that most of us take for granted, like having a nice hot shower in the morn…

We, my travelmate Wilma and I, made plans together to see a lot of Australia. The country is so big that we decided to see only a few parts of it. We started in Hong Kong (stop-over), Saw Darwin, Uluru, Cape york to Cairns, Great barrier reef and drove along the coast to Brisbane.

We got to Hervey Bay at like 10am I think..maybe 9. Koalas hostel picked us up and brought us to the hostel where we checked in and met our new roomies, Erika and Pam who were from Canada as well. They were soo nice! Two of the nicest people I have ever met. We all had showers and naps and then wen…

After a week off work to finalise our bathroom renovation we escaped for a week to Hervey Bay in Queesland for some rest and relazation. Hervey Bay is very well know for it's whale watching tours from the months of May through to September so when we visited the place was very quiet, just the way w…

We arrived into Hervey Bay on the greyhound, which was not too painful a journey and we managed to spot some wild kangaroos! Hervey bay was our stopping off point for Fraser Island the largest sand island in the world. The beaches hostel which came with our packages was not good, but we weren't the…

I hope you read that last link about Fraser Island, because I'm not going to go into too much detail about what it is and its history here. Got picked up at 7.55 by Henning who would be our friendly german tour guide/coach driver for the day. Apparently there's a big need for the tour to have germ…

Certainly a state befitting a Queen. This place has everything! A must see destination for everyone on the planet....

We continued southwards to Hervey Bay where we were to take part in a 3 day self drive 4X4 safari on Fraser island, the worlds biggest sand-dune! of the group of 9 people, only 2 of us could drive so both had plenty of time behind the wheel bumping up and down the sandy tracks connecting the island…

At 7:00am the alarm went off. We had to get up and get ready we were leaving for Rockhampton today. We had place our bags outside at 8:00am for pick up by the hotel staff. It was a bit of a cilly morning, but already sunny, knowing we were going to have another sunny and wa…

My year in Australia. The experiences of yet another Paddy living and working Down Under.

Where better in the world to take your first solo trip? In the land of Oz of course! I started out in Sydney, hopped on and off the popular backpacker Greyhound route to Cairns, and from there a short flight to Melbourne. This country has everything to offer. Go on, have a look!

For my birthday we went to Hervey Bay where we stayed in a wonderful apartment and we did a day trip to Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world.

I  think the best things I packed were a small backpack to carry everything in during the day and the inflatable pillow my parents got me before I left.  Both very practical, and I use them every day. The most impractical thing I brought?  High heels.  I love my heels...but rea…

a map and some photos of my slightly unplanned trip around the world. The map outlines the general route I took, not counting the backtracking and double visits. Currently I am scanning some photos of this trip, but be patient, there are a lot of them! Argentina - Chile - Easter Island - French Polynesia - New Zealand - Australia - Bali - Hong Kong - Macau - Singapore