The weather, though still warm, stays pretty much around the 30 degrees mark, with a sea breeze to cool things down. The caravan park was right on the beach with shops and cafes etc right across the road. A swim was in order, with no stingers in sight at the moment, but a few big ugly jellyfish had been washed up to shore.
Mum and dad came down from Maryborough and we all went out to Mexican, a cuisine all of us enjoy. It was great to see them again and a good night was had by all. I think my dad talked Crowey's ear oYou hff. but I guess they hadn't seen us for a while and there was quite a bit to catch up on.
We took the opportunity to do a couple of things whilst we were in a larger town, fixing Crowey's computer (again) and I decided that a call to the hairdressers was in order after about 5 months (yikes!).
Hervey Bay is a popular destination for tourists, with flights running from Melbourne and Sydney daily. The Whale season here is meant to quite spectacular, but we were there at the wrong time of the year to enjoy that. All in all we had a good time in Hervey Bay.
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| Crowey entertaining Hervey Bay Beach goers |
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| hows that for ugly |
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| friend of the park |
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| one of the ducks at the park who adopted us for the week |
Our next destination was Tin Can Bay. Quite a short trip about 30 mins away. The Caravan park was a little bit rustic, but the locals across the road from where our van was parked amused us no end. There appeared to be about 5 different people living in the same old house, which I must mention had quite excellent views of the water, with none of them I believe having jobs. We had to laugh one Thursday as they all were up early one morning (usually 10 or 11 in the morning was the normal time for them to emerge) and off they all went in one car. It was quite evident that it was "pay day" and the whole house appeared to come alive with activity for the day. Later that night we went to the pub for a counter meal and who should be at the pub but our lovely neighbours, obviously having had one or six drinks too many.
There is lots of fishing, boating and general swimming to be done in Tin Can Bay and one thing I never know was that they actually have their own resident dolphins that come in every morning for a small feed and interaction with the crowd. I went early one morning to experience it and I must say it was rather good, beating Monkey Mia hands down on the ability to be able to stay in the water (keeping quiet as possible of course) whilst the dolphins chose their time to come up close. At Monkey Mia you are not allowed to be in the water and only a select few get to actually feed the dolphins there. At Tin Can Bay for a small fee of $5 anyone was allowed to approach the dolphins with the respective staff nearby. The kids loved it and many a happy snap was taken.
Rainbow Beach is not far from Tin Can Bay and appears to have become quite a destination for back packers and the young in general. The town has had a lot more development than Tin Can Bay and a good surf beach, where we quickly grabbed our swimmers and headed down for a body surf. Quite a pretty place and the closest town to get to Fraser Island from.
We were fairly relaxed in Tin Can Bay but after about three nights decided to head to mum and dad's where Crowey was to leave me behind whilst he went back to Melbourne over the Christmas and New Year period.
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