Aquavue Hervey Bay

Well we’re back safe and sound from New Zealand and I’m pleased to say that everything functioned perfectly while we were away. I also have to say that it’s good to be back because there really is no place quite like Hervey Bay.

It’s that time of the month again to salute our top employee and this month it’s Carly.

Like so many small businesses Aquavue Cafewatersports is a family-run concern and even though we employ quite a few local people various members of the family also like to come down and lend a hand when things get really busy.

My daughter Carly is one of those family members who likes to pitch in and you’ll often see her smiling face around the cafe on weekends. Over the Christmas period she really pitched in and did a great job when things got really busy.

And now the holidays are over things will settle down … just a little. Hervey Bay is a great place to be at this time of the year so it will be a while before things really quieten down.

At the end of business today I’m out of here for a week. The family and I are heading to New Zealand to support one of our daughters who is part of one of the local outriggers teams. They’re competing in a major competition over there and we just had to be there.

While I’m away Aquavue will still be operating as per normal and the team are guaranteed to look after you so come on down for the best coffee and cafe cuisine in Hervey Bay.

Over the Christmas to New Year period a nasty storm raged up and down the southern part of the Queensland Coast. Campers at Rainbow Beach and on Fraser Island were ordered out of the area as high winds and very high tides threatened their camping sites but here in Hervey Bay you would have found it hard to believe that there was a storm out there at all.

It certainly was overcast and late in the afternoons on some of those days the bay did become a bit choppy but for the rest of the time the water looked just like this.

Stuart from Total Website Management lifted this image from our webcam and it shows just how calm the waters here in Hervey Bay at a time when over the horizon it was blowing a gale. The time stamp on the image is 10.19 on 30 December.

It’s a shame that the tourist bodies that we pay to promote Hervey Bay were too busy doing other things to actually advertise the fact that while the storm was blowing in other places the beach in Hervey Bay was a great place to be.