We last visited Hervey Bay when Kate was tiny so it would have to have been over 20 years ago. Then it was a pretty spot with a nice rustic harbour and fabulous views of Fraser Island. It now the airport has been upgraded and has flights to Brisbane and Sydney daily. The harbour area is full of holiday high rise and a shopping precinct to rival any modern town with every fast food, supermarket and hardware store known to man. So based on that we decided to get ...

OMG 4 days and no blog, its been very busy time. What have you guys been doing while we enjoyed another township and area. After a really long long drive the biggest so far, 7 hrs and only one loo stop for diesel, food and coffee!!! You guesssed it I was bursting when we arrived at our camp site, lucky I had my own ensuite and stayed awhile!! The journey down was varied in the counrtyside from the big mountain range, to flat beef country to huge agriculture plan...

The landscape changed quite significantly after Townsville. From your rainforested hills meeting palm fringed beaches with mangrove inlets to a much drier, flatter type of countryside with the hills slowly receding inland. Miles of flat cane fields interspersed with a sugar mill or 2 and elaborate rail systems with cane trains of about 100 carriages cris crossing the Bruce Highway. The Bruce must be the most worked on bit of road in Australia. We have decided the...

By the time I got my act together this morning (each day its later) and reaslised it was going to be a pearler of a day the hire boat man had sold out of boats So plan B swung into action and we organised to go out to for the day to the 3 closest Islands to Mission Beach with Fozzie and his water taxi and 20 of our closest grey nomad friends (he says the backpackers won't go as its too expensive. Its only $50 !!!) Whilst waiting for Fozzie to bring his boat int...

OH yeah this was a wonderful from start to finish. woke up and got up, bonus and then off we set to catch up with the crew from Big Mama charters who took us out today on the GBR to a coral reef called Adelaide and it was spectacular. OK so it was a little ruff on the way out there and a few people felt discomfort but no one had a yawn so again, bonus. On board was about 12 people including the owners Stu, Lisa and their son Fletcher and his little tiny dog Coco...