We woke to a lovely warm sunny day at Pialba Beach in Hervey Bay. Katie & Maddie joined us for a walk on the beach. The boys were still in their swags. The caravan park is right on the beach so we only had to walk through the trees and we were on the beach. The tide was going out and we found the beach strewn with shells and lots of small pieces of coral. I do love a walk on a nice beach!

When we arrived back from our walk on the beach Katie and I got chatting with the campers next to Katie. They are a young family with two young kids who were in week 5 of their 18 month lap of our country. They were having a great time and settling into life on the road. What an amazing experience for those two kids to remember.

Our boys were finally out of bed and ready to get going so we all piled into the Prado and headed off to explore Hervey Bay in the daylight. Ben and Maddie wanted to go to the Skate Park with their scooters while the rest of us drove around Hervey Bay so the skate park was our first stop. We dropped them off and continued along The Esplanade which runs all along the beach.

Hervey Bay appears to be a few beach villages that have eventually joined up to become one large town. We stayed in Pialba, next is Scarness, Torquay and Urangan. Each one has a set of shops. It was all vey laid back.

We stopped off to check out the boat harbour and admired the millions of dollars worth of boats. Harvey Bay is the whale watching capital of Australia and we found whale sculptures and lots of shops selling whale watching cruises.

Saturday Markets were on at Torquay and there seemed to be lots of stalls with many people wandering about. All along the Esplanade is a walking track and that was being well used with walkers, families on push bikes and lots of e-scooters.

After packing up and leaving Pialba around 12.30pm we headed towards Bundaberg munching on ham and cheese sandwiches I made for everyone to eat along the way.

Approaching Childers we started to see macadamia plantations. As we got closer to Bundaberg we saw avocado plantations and large fields of sugar cane.

Upon arrival we drove across the very wide Burnett River and back again before stopping for fuel then heading out to Riverview Ranch farm stay. $25 per night for 2A unpowered. $30 per night for 2A & 2C unpowered. RV’s must be self contained. Basically a large paddock that the owners mow and you are free to choose anywhere to camp. They have a number of fire pits for guests to use and sell wood $25 for 2 bags of wood.

The son of the owner brought us a fire pit and a couple of bags of wood and we enjoyed jaffles for dinner cooked on the little fire pit. The jaffles helped use up our leftovers.

The kids had fun kicking a soccer ball around and playing grip ball.

We had a great night sitting around the fire, listening to music, talking movies and toasting marshmallows. You just can’t beat a good camp fire! A good nights sleep and then we’d be off to explore Bundaberg.