Ben was happy to make a friend at the park so we spent a few lazy days just letting the boys play - it was so nice for him to find someone who enjoyed the same type of games.
We visited Reef World aquarium, which also cares for injured turtles, so a nice opportunity to pat one.
I really get a kick out of stone fish, such funny rocky blobs, they make me smile. As long as they are safely behind glass of course!
A highlight of our visit was a whale watching cruise. Hervey Bay has a huge visiting population of humpback whales and a large tourist industry revolving around their annual visits. Our cruise was absolutely fantastic!
At one point several big males were chasing a female around and around our boat. Very exciting with the males blowing bubbles and snorting through their blowholes as they tried to impress the female. A mother and calf passed by at a cautious distance and later we had two juvenile whales just hanging about beside the boat, flipping their tails and checking us out. It was certainly everything I'd hoped for in a whale watch, although we didn't have a whale breaching spectacularly right beside the boat.
We did a little bit of exploration of the nearby area, visiting Burrum Heads and Toogoom, which were pretty areas.
No visit to Hervey Bay would be complete without walking along the Urangan jetty. I think I like jetties almost as much as lighthouses!
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