Hervey Bay, Australia:
I’ll be MIA for the next couple of days — heading to Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island, tomorrow before catching an overnight bus up to Aerlie Beach and exploring the gorgeous Whitsunday Islands. Very excited for these two trips, rain or no. It’s a rainforest on Fraser so how bad can the rain be?! Even with the rain, Fraser is one of those Australia “must-dos” so I’d feel silly coming all the way over here and not seeing it. After all, I’m here to see Australia, not Australian hostels. 
It’s been interesting seeing all these small Aussie towns. Most of them wouldn’t look out of place in Florida or another other tropical American place. Places tend to look the same around the world, at least in first world countries.
See you in a few days with pictures and hopefully some good stories! Have a lovely weekend! 
Settled by the British and quite a fan of American culture, that’s us!! For interest, Hervey Bay was settled by one of my family in the 1800s – the whole area was a cattle property, and the original farmhouse was on Cypress St. I say house, it was more like a shed on stilts.
(Illogically, I still feel the need to apologise for our awful weather. Really, it’s not normally this wet – when it rains, we put pictures of people holding umbrellas on the third page, that’s how often it rains! Fun fact: the area of Queensland that is flooded is bigger than the state of Victoria)
Have fun dune-bashing on Fraser! xx
my prof is from australia and every time i go to lecture and hear her accent i think of you! lol!