Burnett Heads - Tin Can Bay

Tin Can Bay TT CP.  Guess who's here Alan Walker (his mates call him Reverend not sure why).  Nice to have someone to have happy hour with.  Lunch at the cafe by the bay and a few beer at the Golf Club later.  More wax and polishing of the motorhome.  Headed for Cotton Tree next.

Hervey Bay - Bargara - Burnett Heads

Hervey bay - Bargara
Moving out today after two enjoyable weeks.
Moved into the Absolute Ocean Front Tourist park at Bargara. Went for a ride around the beach bike track and into town, very windy but nice. Went to woollies did some provisioning, 9km. Walked to the local for happy hour but left after one beer.

Rode to Burnett Heads and back, 33km, before having a beer or two at the beach hotel in Bargara. The main shopping street and beach nearby is really very nice and the pub balcony has a great view and cold beer, all in all a nice place.

Took the bus into Bundaberg and walked about 9km around town had lunch at the RSL, roast lamb, overlooking the river and the Marina, nice.

Oct 6th What kind of noise annoys an oyster?

Bargara - Burnett Heads
Booked into the lighthouse caravan park for two nights, nice, could stay longer. Reconfigured the square array TV antenna to vertical polarization works really well here.  Rode to the port and around town after breakfast, 12km. Windy!  Watched bits of the Bathurst car race on TV.

Main street Bargara

Hervey Bay - Burrum Heads and back

Hervey bay - Burrum Heads
Time to move on, Fraser Coast Top Tourist Park is worth a return stay next time I'm in the area, nice.  Drove to Burrum heads and stayed just one night as the Park was booked out for the public holiday on Monday.  Rang Lynn at Hervey bay and booked in again for the next week.

Burrum heads Hillcrest Caravan park
Mostly permanents older and a bit tatty not a lot of grass sites uneven some unsealed tracks. The Council CP in the middle of town is a better option but not during holiday time a it has no privacy. The main street of town goes right through the middle and the river path as well.

Might be worth a visit out of season as a traveller told me the fishing was good.  The town has an IGA and a nice pub.  Cycling is easy and the roads are mostly quiet.

Burrum heads - Hervey bay.
Lots of rain and wind overnight but the morning cleared to a beautiful day, again.  Drove back to Hervey bay and the top tourist CP.  Booked in for another week.  Alan Walker is still here for a couple of more nights.  Did some more waxing of Dora after setting up camp.  A big job, a labour of love, will do a bit more each day.

Did some more of the same riding and walking etc.

 Water park on the beach at Hervey Bay

Rainbow Beach to Hervey Bay

Rainbow beach - Poona
Easy drive to Poona some roadworks but ok. Poona is a small hamlet, 7km off the main road, on the mouth of the river.  Quiet, just a CP and a coffee shop, that of course, is closed today. Stayed just one night then on to Hervey Bay.

Booked into the Top Tourist CP for a week and rode to Woollies for provisions.  Nice bike paths all along the coast, north and south and back from the beach also.  Lots of bars and restaurants scattered about, a great tourist destination.  Most every chain store and service is available here as well.

The Fraser Coast Top Tourist Park is ideal to stop at.  As well as free Wifi it has a pool and spa and gates that are locked at night.  Its just a block or two to the beach and there is a pub nearby, ideal.  Alan from TCB turns up here after a day or two.  Great someone to ride with!

Prim my neighbour here at the CP is from Malaysia and was telling me Australians are very unhealthy and overweight because of the state funding of health care services.  We expect the government to look after us she tells me.  The funny thing is she is on the big side of obese and I think would just like someone to look after her and feed her as she gets old.

Got the bus into Maryborough, what a disappointment!  Some nice old pubs dating back to 1860s, Town Hall, PO etc but little else of interest.  Not much access or use of the river for tourism, surprising.  Coffee only $2.70, if quality dictates price, I got nothing for free.  No coffee culture here.

Had lunch at the Post Office hotel and then back to Hervey bay.

25th September headed of the Burrum Heads.

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 Mist in the morning

Hervey Bay marina

Tin Can Bay - Paralympics

Booked into the Top Tourist CP in Tin Can Bay.  A little bit away from the centre of town but close to bay and a nice bike path into town and down to a nice restaurant and coffee shop on the water's edge offering free internet.  My site has good TV reception for the watching of those late night wheelchair basketball games from the Paralympics in England.

Rode to the local pub and was reminded of Papua New Guinea and the dropouts and misfits that choose to live there.  Maybe they all transferred from here?

Loving it here.  Quiet.  Good bike paths and light local car traffic.  A good IGA just up the road or a woolies about a 10km bike ride away.  Layback nice clubs, yacht club, golf club and RSL.  Good fishing.  And at this time of the year no bugs but apparently thats different in summer.  Ended up staying three weeks.

Whilst here I met Alan from north of Sydney somewhere just touring about in his caravan.  We rode, fished and had the odd happy hour together.  I also fell in with the park owners, Ian and Chris, because my park was a TT Park as well.

The Gliders take out silver, congratulations girls.

Rode the bus into Gympie for a bit of variation walked around town and then back to the Bay.

Packed up and moved to Rainbow Beach expecting to stay awhile but its a bit like Noosa and not my style.  So will move on after just 2 nights.

 Dinner

 Tin Can Bay Yacht Club 

Rainbow Beach