We spent three nights in a small fishing town called Hervey Bay. We didn’t have much of a plan when going there. Our plan was to drive the east-coast up till the Town of 1770. Hervey Bay was on middle of our drive and we tought it would be a nice place to stay couple of nights. We also read that we could get to Fraser island and Lady Elliot island from there. Both of those trips turned out to be really expensive so we had to think where to spend our money. Hervey Bay was also famous for whale watching which was easier for the wallet but we had to think the night over what we wanted to do. 

Hervey Bay was a really quiet and sleepy town. After 5pm it felt like there was no one on the streets. We heard that in the town there was a spot where a huge colony of flying foxes were living. They were actually spending their days sleeping in a park and at dusk flying to Fraser island looking for food. They looked like some fruits hanging on the trees. It was really impressive see when at 6pm, when the sun had almost set, hundreds of the bats started waking up noisily and then flying above us.

After one night’s sleep we decided to do a combined Fraser island and whale watching tour. However, our excitement about the choice was cut short since the tour was fully booked for several days ahead. So we decided to go whale watching for half a day, and that was a good decision. The whale season is pretty long and during that time there are hundreds of humpbacks on their way close to the shore, so the companies promise guaranteed sightings. We took a little boat with a company called Whalesong and headed out for the search of whales. And we found them, many of them. Or should we say that they found us? The humpbacks are curious creatures, and we got to meet them up close and personal because they found us interesting and came to say hi. We were told to wave at the whales to keep them interested. They’re not interested in the boat but people, and if people seem boring they would just go away. We got a couple of curious young humpbacks, and we could even hear one of them sing since they lowered a microphone in the water.

After meeting the humpbacks we had still one day in Hervey Bay and we decided to spend it relaxing – shopping and cooking, lying in hammocks, doing acroyoga, going for an ice cream (they have a shop there with 72 different varieties of ice cream!). And here Valeria finally had a chance to do some poling at the local pole dance school.