{"id":883,"date":"2011-06-03T08:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/?p=883"},"modified":"2021-03-14T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T19:52:53","slug":"hervey-bay-fraser-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Hervey Bay & Fraser Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

My host parents had booked an appartment on Hervey Bay for us plus my German friend called Eva for last weekend. It took us about 4 hours to drive up to Hervey Bay. We could check in to our appartment at 2pm, and after that we went for a walk down the endless long pier which lay right infront of our appartment, and we watched all the fishers fishing on the pier. The weather was beautiful and it wasn’t too cold either. Unfortunately it was freezing and it rained a bit on the Saturday, on the day Eva and I had organised to go on a day tour over to Fraser Island.. But it was still nice! The tour guide drove us around in a 4 wheel drive bus (you can imagine how all the sandy and muddy roads were like to drive on..) most of the day but we did a few stops, e.g at the beautiful Lake McKenzie (its water is supposed to be very pure and cleansing), at the Maheno Shipwreck (on Seventy-Five-Mile Beach) or at Central Station. The reason why the shipwreck is there is because while it was being towed to Japan for scrapping in 1935 Maheno was struck by an out-of-season cyclone and washed ashore. Central Station, a former logging camp, is now a Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service ranger information station and interpretive centre. Not to forget the Coloured Sands on Seventy-Five-Mile Beach! \u00a0They comprise 72 different colours, mostly reds and yellows. The colours are caused by the leaching of oxides that coat each grain of sand, causing bands of colour.<\/p>\n

Fraser Island itself is the largest sand island in the world, stretching over 123 kilometres in length and 22 kilometres at its widest point. The highest dune is 244 metres but most rise to between 100 and 200 metres above sea level. Drilling has shown the sand extends to 100 metres below sea level in places. Most of the sand comprises grains of quartz, with less than two per cent being other minerals such as rutile and zircon. Just in case someone were interested in a bit of geology and geography or whatever..<\/p>\n

Then on Sunday we went out for brunch in the morning at a nice little caf\u00e9, and after that we went for a wander through Hervey Bay before we went to the cinemas in the afternoon to watch “Hangover 2”. \ud83d\ude42 Then on Monday it was time to go home already again, after we had cleaned up the appartment in a record tempo (for me anyway)..<\/p>\n

All in all I enjoyed the weekend away, and I recommend everyone to go there if they ever have the chance!<\/p>\n

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My host parents had booked an appartment on Hervey Bay for us plus my German friend called Eva for last weekend. It took us about 4 hours to drive up to Hervey Bay. We could check in to our appartment at 2pm, and after that we went for a walk down the endless long pier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katrin.finz.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}