Hervey Bay Gossip

If you’ve ever wondered what is done with all those plastic milk containers that you’re encouraged to recycle then here’s just one of the things that all the recycled plastic is used for.

Take a walk out along the pier at Torquay here in Hervey Bay and you’ll find that this bench has been placed there by the Fraser Coast Regional Council so that you can sit back and enjoy the scenery. A sign on the bench will tell you that it contains “the equivalent of 2100 2 litre plastick milk containers.

Sunrise after a heavy shower of rain certainly added sdome interesting hues to the photo.

More and more people in Hervey Bay are turning to the Internet to find the information that they require. Turning to the Yellow Pages when you want to find some local information is becoming a thing of the past and Google is where people are heading these days.

Clive and Kerry Scotney from the Beachside Pharmacy have been watching that trend grow and recently decided to take their business to where people were searching. But rather than just pushing their marketing message at people they decided that they wanted to bring important health information down to a local level and so they’ve become the first pharmacy in Hervey Bay to have their own website.

The website includes a growing database of important health information that can be accessed at any time of the day or night.

Toni Livesey from Total Website Management - the team that developed the site - thinks that it could be the first pharmacy website of its kind in Australia.

“We searched to see what other pharmacies were doing around Australia before we began work on this site and found some that were interested in pushing their marketing message but none that were interested in sharing important health information as Clive and Kerry do on their site.”

If you’re a tourism operator here in Hervey Bay … or rely on the tourism industry for part or all of your income … then the announcements regarding flight cutbacks coming from Qantas and Jetstar are enough to raise the stress levels a point or two.

But headlines in the online version of today’s Courier Mail like ”Virgin Blue Facing Oblivion” are just about guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. You can read the full story here. If the worse case scenario came about then there could be some very interesting times ahead for Hervey Bay.

On a winter’s day when the weather forecast for Hervey Bay is “mostly cloudy” the beach was definitely the place to be.

There were plenty of people walking on the beach on what was really a warm and pleasant morning to be out and about.

I was digging through some images to use on a tourism related website that we’re building for one of our Hervey Bay web design clients and came across this one that I took in March last year and I don’t think I’ve shared here before.

It was taken on the barge coming back from Fraser Island. We certainly do have some stunning sunsets here in Hervey Bay.

The heavy rain we had here in Hervey Bay last week brought the inevitable flooding to areas of Wondunna. If you saw the television footage of the flooding and saw the interviews with residents who had floodwater running through their yards and houses you know that it was hard not to feel their pain.

One Hervey Bay resident has been brave enough to openly ask an obvious question about the flooding that I’m sure many local residents have ask themselves. You can read her thoughts over on Bring Back Strewth!

The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries is suggesting that this year could be a great on for whales.

The Department is expecting around 9,500 whales to head up the Queensland coast this year so that means that plenty of them will find there way into Hervey Bay for a rest before they return south.

So if you’re coming to Hervey Bay to see the whales then there’s a very good chance that you’ll see plenty of action and the whale boats in Hervey Bay will get you up close and personal to it all.

The rain in Hervey Bay seems to have abated … at least for few days … and it’s left Lenthalls Dam full to overflowing. That’s something that’s very positive for Hervey Bay.

Potholes make driving difficult 
On the down side though the rain has left the roads around Hervey Bay in a real mess with potholes forming all over town. While some might think of the potholes as just a nuisance there have been a number of reports of cars being damaged after hitting some of the deeper ones around town.

As late as last night there were still quite a few nasty holes in some of the busier streets around town despite the Mayor telling the ABC yesterday that the majority of dangerous holes had been repaired.

The bats in Hervey Bay - have they gone?
Is it just my imagination or have the bats really departed the scene down where Tooan Tooan Creek crosses The Esplanade?

They certainly don’t seem to be hanging in the trees in the numbers that we’[re used to seeing down there so perhaps we can hope that they’ve gone for good.

The Premier announced today that the next Community Cabinet will be held in Hervey Bay on Sunday June 29 and Monday June 30.

The Sunday Community Forum will be held at Wide Bay TAFE, Urraween Road, Hervey Bay from 1pm and on Monday the Cabinet will meet in Hervey Bay from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

So another circus comes to town? (Sorry, I just couldn’t resist that.)

Here in Hervey Bay we’ve woken up to another wet and windy day and while the flood water has gone down some places along the Esplanade are taking no chances.

These have been in place since Friday