We continued our journey - this time to the Fraser Coast and a smallish resort called Hervey Bay, famous for its links with Fraser Island. The drive from Airlie Beach would have taken about 13 hours straight, so we decided to do a flying overnight visit to the town of Rockhampton. 'Rocky' is not really part of the usual backpackers route on the east coast, so we thought it might be a good oppotunity to experience the 'real Australia'. The town is supposedly the beef capital of Oz, and this certainly seemed evident as we got closer - Kate saw plenty of cows (I didn't because I slept most of the way as usual!). We went to a great little steak house that was pretty cheap called The bush bar and grill! We both had the smallest steak on the menu but it was plenty, we certainly wouldn't of managed the 2.2lbs challenge steak that they had. We left
Rocky at 6.45 in the morning I literally had to drag Andrew out of bed!
Hervey Bay was a pleseant seaside resort if a little touristy. Most people use it as a base for Fraser Island, but we decided to save th pennies for later on. The tours seemed a bit over priced for what you got. The cheapest day tour of the island was $165. Every where we seem to go they are trying to get us to buy a tour to some island or other and we cant really do them all! We had a lovely few days on the beach and played a bit of frisbee! The hostel we stayed in was probably one of the best we have stayed in so far, called Next backpackers!
Heading down towards Brisbane and calling in on Noosa on the way on the reccomendation of a guy we met at Airlie Beach!
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