Hervey Bay

We stopped at Hervey Bay for two nights and stayed in a caravan park right on the water.  A nice enough park, but we were complete squashed in, almost couldn't open our van windows!  We were only here to see the whales anyway, so it didn't really matter.  We booked our tour and headed off early in the morning.  We were all pretty excited.

Jake having his morning coffee

We saw a few whales off in the distance but not up close to begin with.  What we did see was this pod of gorgeous dolphins.  They swam right up to the boat and just seemed to hang around and check us out.  When the boat took off, they even raced it, they are pretty fast.  We were impressed!

We had gone whale watching  early in the season in Port Macquaire but didn't get to see the whales up close.  We were a bit worried it would happen again, but it definitely didn't.  We saw so many whales, we couldn't believe it.  They came in so close, we saw them breach, roll over and do tail slaps.  One of the high lights would have to have been when Charlotte screamed in joy when she saw the first big whale up close.  She was just so happy and amazed.  We also got to see a mother and its baby that swam in front of the boat, but we didn't hit them, she just kept parading her baby around for us to check out!

Poor Jake wasn't as excited about the whales.  He had a look, saw a few then was bored.  He spent more time playing under the bench and inside with some toy blocks.  SO glad were paid for a ticket for him (not!).  Whale watching was definitely something we will never forget.  A definite must if you ever get to Hervey Bay.

We went for a walk along the beach in front of the caravan park at sunset.  A pretty place, there were even dolphins swimming right in front of this jetty. 

That's about all we saw of Hervey Bay.  Just a quick couple of nights to see the whales then on to Bundaberg.