Things to do in Hervey Bay
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Enzo's on the Beach
A shabby-chic outdoor cafe with a superb beachfront location where you can dine on focaccias, wraps, healthy salads and light meals or just sip a coffee and wallow in the perfect ocean views. Active sorts can hire kayaks, surf skis and paddleboards or learn kitesurfing.
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Fraser Magic 4WD Hire
Hervey Bay is the most popular spot to hire a 4WD for Fraser Island.
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Cafe Balaena
This efficient and friendly cafe in the heart of the Hervey Bay Marina serves gourmet croissants and outstanding fruit juices. At lunch and dinner the menu is equally trendy, boasting mountainous hot sandwiches and salads, with a good dose of fresh seafood.
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Bay Bicycle Hire
Bay Bicycle Hire rents out bicycles from various outlets along the Esplanade, or can deliver bikes to your door.
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Enzo's on the Beach
Kitesurfing ($130 per two-hour lesson), paddleboarding ($30/40 per hour/two hours). Also hires out kayaks and surf skis.
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Morocco's
Run by Koala Backpackers, Morocco's is Hervey Bay's only true nightclub. It is usually crowded with young, hard-drinking, looking to hook-up backpackers. There is a strict ID policy (no-one under 18), but once you get past the giant bouncers, you'll be inside a disco-like noise-proof dance hall with multicoloured lights and a giant flat screen TV playing MTV's latest hits.
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Fraser Island And Reef Experience
5 days (ex Fraser Island)
by Intrepid
Feast on fresh fish and chips in Hervey Bay, Float down freshwater creeks on Fraser Island, Spot dolphins and stingrays at Indian Head, Explore eerie shipwrecks…Not LP reviewed
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MV Tasman Venture
Takes a maximum of 80 passengers and has underwater microphones and viewing windows. Whale watching tours operate daily out of Hervey Bay - weather permitting - between mid-July and late October. Sightings are guaranteed from 1 August to 1 November, when you get a free subsequent trip if the whales don't show.
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Black Dog Café
The ambience is funk, the menu is Zen. The East-meets-West dishes feature sushi, Japanese soup, fresh burgers, curries, club sambos and seafood salads.
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Pier Restaurant
Although it sits opposite the water, à la carte Pier makes little use of its ocean views. It does have an interesting seafood menu (crocodile and Hervey Bay scallops), though, and is deservedly popular.
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Hoolihan's
Like all good Irish pubs, Hoolihan's is wildly popular, especially with the backpacker crowd. Maybe it's got something to do with its hard-drinking ethos and carbo-laden meals.
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SilverStar Fishing Charters
Offers calm-water fishing trips that run for around eight hours. These also leave from Urangan Harbour. The fishing in and around Hervey Bay is excellent and numerous vessels operate fishing safaris.
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Aquavue
Hires out SeaKarts (somewhat of a cross between a windsurfer and a catamaran; $50 per hour), kayaks ($20 per hour) and jet skis ($50 per 15 minutes). Guided Fraser Island jet-ski tours for $320.
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Scrub Hill Community Farm
Run by the Korrawinga Aboriginal Community, the Scrub Hill Community Farm produces organic vegetables, tea-tree oil and excellent artworks, including didgeridoos.
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Soul-Sa
A stylish little Asian fusion restaurant serving sizey burgers and pastas for lunch, while the slick dinner menu includes sambal squid vermicelli and Rangoon sweet beef curry.
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Spirit of Hervey Bay
A large vessel with underwater viewing rooms; takes a maximum of 150 passengers. Such tours operate daily - weather permitting - between mid-July and late October.
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Hummer Tours
Popular new luxury day trips, with champagne lunch, small groups and a roaring Hummer to maim, er, spot dingoes from.
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Bay 4WD Hire
Hervey Bay is the most popular spot to hire a 4WD for Fraser Island.
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Ozi Roving 4X4
Hervey Bay is the most popular spot to hire a 4WD for Fraser Island.
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That's Awesome
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Reef World
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Nomads
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