Hervey Bay

 Day 1 – Good Morning Roo’s!

Getting up fairly early we packed up, took a few photo’s of the panoramic views that were not visible the day before and then were waved off by these characters below on the way out of the campsite (not a bad start to the day!).

First we headed down to Agnes Beach, stopping to re-fuel Muriel on the way and when we got there as usual the beach was a long stretch of golden sand. I would say that it was slightly more wind swept but this isn’t surprising as it is Australia’s most northerly surf beach.

We then started yet another reasonable drive and the sun finally came out again, which makes everything seem better.  As we motored along for a few hours we listened to a talkie book (Dezial & Pascoe), which we have now started to do as after 8 months of travelling conversation is wearing thin (We can hardly ask each other what they were up to last night!).

After a few hours of who dunnit we arrived at Hervey Bay campsite which was located right on the beach, so we looked forward to doing a bit of whale watching from the shore.

Once we had checked in and set up camp we headed back to the reception as they also booked up tours for Fraser Island, which is why we had come here.  We booked on a two day one night tour and were told that they would let us leave our camper on the site we had for free when we were away.

That sorted and after a long day we decided to chill out for the day and give Mum a call as it was her birthday today.

Later in the day loads of red coloured parakeets came to roost in the trees above where we were camping that made a hell of a racket (we would come to rue our camping spot when it came to taking down the awning a few days later!!).

As it got dark we went to the camp kitchen and heated up Shell’s lamb casserole that we had in storage (it wasn’t as bad as she had made out) before having a few more drinks outside our van and then bed.

Day 2 – No whale sighting’s

Shell was up very early today (6am) as she wanted to get our laundry done and it looked as though it was a bit of a bun fight for the machines.

Our plan for the day was that Shell was going to relax on the beach, read and do a bit of whale watching whilst I tried to catch up on the blog.  Unfortunately the weather had other idea’s as it was very overcast, so we had to re-think!

Instead we decided to have a walk around the town in search of an ATM and a supermarket.  It was a bit further than we thought but we managed to find both and picked up the ingredients to do apricot chicken.  On the way back we walked along the sea front in the hope that we would see a whale, we didn’t and it started to rain, so we headed off quickly to the camp site to get our washing off the line and into a tumble dryer.

In the afternoon we had a reversal of role, Shell took over the blogging and I went to cook the apricot chicken in the camp kitchen.  I did not put up an argument as the blog she was about to embark on was a long one, Whitsundays!

Once my cheffing had been done we put it in the fridge for our spare meal for when we returned from Fraser Island.  Instead we thought we would just grab a Chinese take-away from the restaurant across the road and have a lazy night.

Whilst we were tucking in to our food we got a knock on the door from a campsite friend that Shell had got talking too in the laundry and she had bought over a list of good campsites to go to on our travels, which was nice.

As we had an early start the next day for our Fraser Island trip we just had a couple of drinks before getting an early night.