Hervey Bay Gossip

If you’ve seen the manta rays that sometimes come into Hervey Bay to breed you will be interested in this story of the first manta ray born in captivity

The short answer to that question is - ‘not very clean at all’. In fact a recent study has found that there are more germs on the average computer keyboard and mouse than there are on most toilet seats.

At least one manufacturer has already come up with a solution for the problem of dirty keyboards. They’ve produced and keyboard and mouse that can be cleaned in the dishwasher. You can find them at Seal Shield.

While I doubt that you’ll find any in stock in any computer shop in Hervey Bay if you follow the link you will find one shop here in town that does stock a lot of hard-to-get computer parts and guarantees all their computer repairs.

Mayor of Hervey Bay, Ted Sorenson, has announced the city’s budget for the next 12 months.

Major projects include upgrades to roads, the Urangan Pier and the Hervey Bay airport. The council will be raising rates by 4.5% to cover these new expenses.

If you thought it was a bit on the cold side yesterday in Hervey Bay then you were right. The official maximum was only 12 degrees and today isn’t going to be much better.

At 4.25 this morning the temperature gauge here on the Gossip was reading a whole 8 degrees and the rain was falling.

There were some interesting patterns in the sky over Hervey Bay this morning

As a web designer I’ve come across some very good website designs over the years. I’ve also come across quite a few very bad website designs too (and produced a couple of them myself) but I’ve never come across a site quite like this one before

Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has produced a plan to radically overhaul Aboriginal welfare. The full story makes for some interesting reading and you can find it here

If you’ve seen an unusual looking small sailing vessel out on Hervey Bay in the last week or so then you’re probably seen one of Aquavue’s Seakarts.

The Seakart by Windkart is a very easy to operate vessel that’s really a cross between a windsurfer and catamaran. The Seakarts can carry two people but are designed to be operated by just one and it seems that even complete beginners can operate these after just a short period of instruction.

You can see more images on Aquavue’s Seakart hire page by following the link

The Hervey Bay Whale Festival will be on again this year from August 10 to August 12 and the council is calling for stall holders and volunteers who are interested in participating.

For further information you should go to the website at http://www.herveybaywhalefestival.com.au

Last week two new sets of traffic lights on Boat Harbour Drive were announced in the State Budget but those aren’t the only new sets of  traffic lights that are coming to Hervey Bay.

Hervey Bay City Council has announced that it will be calling tenders in mid July for the installation of traffic lights at the intersection of Queens Road and Torquay Road. That’s definitely an intersection that needs lights but will the lights lead to more people using Queens Road to access the Esplanade via an intersection that can be quite difficult to negotiate at times?