Not 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.