Aquavue Hervey Bay

People certainly find some different things to do on Fraser Island but running a marathon was not something I ever expected to see on Fraser Island but it could be about to happen.

While I was wandering around the Web I came across this story of a Fraser Island Marathon to be run on Fraser Island  between August 11 and 13.

There are plenty of ways to see the Island but I never considered that running might be one of them. Lots of people like to see Fraser Island by taking our popular Fraser Island jetski tours and here’s one happy group who did.

It’s winter here in Hervey Bay and if you had been here for the last few days you would have experienced several of the coldest winter days in living memory. And just to make it even more wintery it was raining on and off too.

But this morning has the promise of a beautiful sunny day to follow. Here’s an image I took from the webcam while the cafe crew were setting up just before opening time.

It’s mornings like this one that make you feel good to be alive and down here at Aquavue - the Hervey Bay cafe right on the beach.

I see that the Hervey Bay Gossip is carrying a brief story about manta rays today and they mention that the rays have been seen in the waters around Hervey Bay.

We can certainly attest to that; Marcus, one of the members of the team here at Aquavue, was paddling out in the bay several months ago and spotted two big manta rays swimming underneath him. They’re certainly a very unusual creature and can be quite awe inspiring.

Now you can see the view from Aquavue just as we see it every day.

For some time now we’ve had a webcam installed on the wall here at Aquavue and we’ve been slowly ironing out the bugs. Now we think it’s ready to go live and once we know that it is intergrated correctly with the Aquavue website we’ll have it on display over in the right hand column.

But for now here is the view from our cafe in Hervey Bay

You know, sometimes things never go quite as planned. After we had the new Seakarts assembled we spent a day testing and fine tuning them. We even had some decent breeze to sail them in and everything was good.

Then the next day Channel 7 came down to do a piece on the new addition to our beach hire equipment and even when the crew arrived there was still a decent breeze blowing. The crew filmed some footage with the Seakarts up on the beach and even did an interview with the guys who had come out from the Windkart factory in France.

Everything was going well, the reporter kicked off her shoes to enjoy the sand, the sun was shining and the interview went well but then came the time to take the reporter out for a sail in the Seakart.

The clouds came over, the breeze disappeared and … we still managed to take the reporter out into the bay for a sail because it doesn’t take much of a breeze to get these Seakarts moving.

At last the Seakarts are here and I’ve got to correct the post that I made a couple of days ago. These sailing craft are actually Seakarts by Windkart and they are an incredible piece of equipment.

In lots of ways the Seakart is a cross between a wind surfer and a catamaran and there’s a little bit of sports car in there as well. If that sounds like a strange combination then let me explain.

A Seakart can carry two people but it can be easily sailed by just one. The main control is something similar to a car’s steering wheel and it’s positioned in front of the people in the ‘cockpit’.

The cockpit is actually like a hammock and whoever is sailing in the Seakart sits/reclines in the hammock and has everything he needs to control the Seakart within easy reach.

The Seakart can be sailed by just about anyone and even if your a complete novice at sailing you can be out on the water having a great time in just a few minutes. It’s far easier to sail a Seakart than it is to sail any other type of catamaran.

We were fortunate to have the guys who build the Seakarts come out from France to help us set up the four we’ve bought to add to Aquavue’s beach hire equipment. All the crew here at Aquavue have been out in them and we love them, they’re a lot of fun and so easy to sail.

You can read more about them and see a few extra photos on the Seakart hire page on Aquavue’s main site.