After a great steak and a few beers in Rockhampton on Satuday Night I drove down to Hervey Bay on Sunday and parked in a beach front camping site. What I hadn't realised as i checked in was the 20,000 parrots that lived above the tent and created seriously loud 'white noise' for several hours at dawn and dusk. 
Monday morning I got up very early (no need fo an alarm with the parrots) and took a tour with 12 others to Rainbow Beach then onto Fraser island, famous as the largest sand island in the world and as a nature reserve. The trip must be is taken in a four wheel drive vehicle as there are no surfaced roads and the main road is the east coast beach, otherwise known as 75 mile beach, which gives you and idea of its length. The beach is also used by light aircraft as a runway to land and take off.
The coast line is beautiful, although you can't swim in the sea due to rip tides sharks, jelly fish etc. but we did have swim in a fresh water creek . However one tourist attaction is the remains of a wreck of a passenger ship which sank in 1930 when it was being towed to Japan for scrap
Overnight we stayed in cabins inland from the beach and played frisbee in a creek of 'black water', coloured by the roots of the tea eucalyptus trees, and said to be very good for the skin.
Next day we walked through walked through some rain forest and had another swim and sunbathe at a most beautiful freshwater lake where the white sand is the finest I've ever seen.
Today I've driven 300kms to Brisbane which I'm just starting to explore
No comments:
Post a Comment