The Mystery Craters were something I fancied a look at on the way back up North, on the way to Rockhampton, to break up the drive. They were located just off of our route and have been turned into a shabby tourist attraction. They are a group of twenty-odd craters the cause of which, geologists [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Mystery Craters
Posted in Australia, Queensland on Friday, 31 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whale Watching in Hervey Bay
Posted in Activities, Australia, Queensland, Wildlife on Thursday, 30 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The humpback whale spotting season at Hervey Bay was one of the big things that I got excited about when I was researching our trip and was a major reason for choosing the way round Australia we’ve taken. It is not known why these huge creatures like to hang out near Hervey Bay for a [...]
Great Barrier Reef: Fitzroy Reef Lagoon
Posted in Activities, Australia, Queensland, Snorkelling on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apart from the surf, or lack of (grrrrr), the main reason we wanted to go to Town Of 1770 was to look at visiting the Great Barrier Reef, one of the main reasons we both had come to Oz. Most people go to the reef from Cairns but we had heard that the southern end [...]
1770 & Agnes Waters
Posted in Australia, Queensland on Sunday, 26 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Town Of 1770 and Agnes Waters are the last place on the North East coast to get surf as the Great Barrier Reef gets in the way any further north, so we had to stop there. Due to the fact that it was winter there was, disappointingly, NO SURF! The board never even made it [...]
Bargara
Posted in Australia, Queensland on Thursday, 23 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just 15 mins down the road from Bunderburg is a small coastal town of Baragra. It is near here (at Mon Repos) that every year Leatherback and Flatback turtles come to lay they eggs. Visitors are able to volunteer to help the scientists record the number of females laying eggs and the number of hatchlings [...]
