Hervey Bay Weekend Seafood Festival

Day 1 Banora Point NSW to Bauple Qld
With a Friday afternoon departure this time we will be towing in the Jayco 1652.8 Pop-top Caravan for an easy drive North up to Town of Bauple for an overnight free camp at Bauple Recreation Grounds. The Bauple Rec Grounds is away from highway noise and has clean flushing toilets, grassed area for caravans and motorhomes and is only a few minutes east of the Bruce Highway.

Distance is 326 kms and 3 hours 30 mins towing time.

Hervey Bay

Day 2 Bauple to Hervey Bay

We woke up to another beautiful sunny day and had bacon and eggs with a coffee before setting off for our short drive to Hervey Bay.

Our first stop was the famous Urangan Pier which is 868 metres long where we walked out to the end and back. The pier is one of the most popular land based fishing locations in Hervey Bay with some fisherman fishing in the first few hundred metres and the keen ones fishing out near the end in the deep gutters all seemed to be catching fish large and small. Also we walked in the Botanical Gardens viewing the local fauna & flora in their natural surroundings.

It was now check in time at the Fraser Lodge Holiday Park where we had booked an En Suite Powered Site for the night. the Fraser Lodge Holiday Park is in a great location at Torquay and is handy to Shops, Restaurants, The Esplanade and Beach and has a Tour Desk for Booking your Fraser Island or Whale Watch Tour.

Driving Time 1 Hour and Distance was 76 kms

Hervey Bay Seafood Festival

Day 3 Hervey Bay Seafood Festival then home.

Yet another prefect day we started off with a scenic walk along The Esplanade to Pialba. On our arrival at Pialba we found a great Water Side Water Education Park for the kids on the waterfront. The water park features hundreds of spouts and jets, fountains interactive play equipment, water slides, surfing, special play area for under-5’s called TotSide, tipping buckets, music and a giant water screen. The site also includes a coffee shop, viewing decks and boardwalks, educational displays, amenities blocks and the pay-per-use Board Rider wave machine.

On our return to Fraser Lodge it was time to pack up the caravan and leave Fraser Lodge for a very short 5 minute drive to the Hervey Bay Seafood Festival. At the festival we enjoying sampling the Coconut Banana Prawns along with Freshly Cooked Whiting Fillets and Marinated BBQ Moreton Bay Skewers to name a few.

After the festival we left Hervey Bay for our return trip home stopping at Rest Area on the Sunshine Coast for a quick Coffee and Cake in the Caravan.

Distance Travelled 402 kms and Towing Time 4 hours 30 Minutes