Hervey Bay attractions There are lots of the usual things to do in a seaside holiday area and Hervey Bay is no exception - swimming, walking, golf, fishing, boating, eating out, markets, but Hervey Bay is renowned for winter whale watching. (More about that later. Here's what else to do first.) Hervey Bay Markets When …
Now that we are retired and no longer teach we can take our caravan away before or after school holidays. Cape Paterson is on the southern coast of west Gippsland and we planned to meet up with friends at the caravan park there. Our trip down on the Friday, after lunching at home, took us …
From Hamelin Pool we continued our drive south. After a couple of hours we turned towards the coast from the main highway but it was almost another hour before we arrived at the Murchison Caravan Park, our stopping point for the next few nights. After setting up the caravan we grabbed a few supplies from …
Now that we had communed with dolphins at Monkey Mia there remained some other important/interesting locations to visit as we made our way back out of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. The first was about fifteen minutes south from Denham. Named Eagle Bluff Lookout, it offered us views over a part of Shark Bay. …
Continue reading Our final day exploring Shark Bay World Heritage Area
The helpful staff at Denham Tourist Information Centre had detailed to us what was required with going to see the dolphins at Monkey Mia when we had popped in there the previous day. So we took a quick breakfast and drove off in the early dawn towards Monkey Mia. After paying our park entry fee …
Continue reading Shark Bay World Heritage Area, Day 2 – Monkey Mia
After a relaxing time in Broome we hitched up the caravan and headed south towards Port Hedland. Friends had told us that we should stop along the coast on the way there at Eighty Mile Beach. It's a very popular spot and as a result we could only secure a non powered site over the …
Watching the sun set at Cable Beach is another Broome institution. So when in Broome .... join in. From Palm Grove Caravan Park it's only a short walk. This was a good and bad move. Good because we didn't have to find a carpark and bad because pedestrians have to be very careful dodging a …
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