Inskip Point – Hervey Bay

Woke early again due to the humidity. Took a stroll along the beach to the North of the point and we enjoyed the fresh morning breeze and overcast cloud cover that was making it cooler for us – just a little…

While the weather is getting more and more difficult to cope with, it certainly is a little easier to handle if you're in a house, or able to access airconditioned relief from time to time. Sleeping in an unairconditioned van with not even a fan is very difficult to do in the oppressive humidity. When you go to bed at night there is a light breeze at the start but it slowly drops off to nothing duirng the night, making it really difficult to maintain any sleep.

Decided it was time to get going. We headed on through the back roads to Hervey Bay. Drove through acre after acre of bush and also unfortunately lots of pine plantations. We passed through some interesting little spots like Boonooroo and Tuan. These places would really appeal to people who really want to get away from it all. The are both located on the waterfront and also have one or two streets behind. The two towns consist in total of about 50 houses and there is one post box and one house converted to a part time shop. There is nothing else there bar the beautiful view directly over to the untouched beaches of Fraser Island. It looks so close that you can almost touch it!

We couldn’t really remember the place, but noticed a few places that reminded us of it. We met a lovely couple from the Gold Coast who were travelling back home after visiting their son. They had a 4 month old jack Russell and her and Midget romped and played in the heat of the day till they could stand no longer. Both flopping the ground they hankered for the cool breeze we were in all in search of. We drove the length of their esplanade and found there were many spots that were free camping approved sites. But most were on the busy strip and on a Friday night we didn’t want to put up with bogans and burn outs all night long, so we headed to one end of the esplanade and found a little vacant block and pulled up. It was quiet as a mouse, but so incredibly hot as it just didn’t get any air down there, so at 2am we drove back to the other end high up on a hill and pulled up under several shady trees (for the morning) and managed a few hours kip.