{"id":299,"date":"2013-01-07T17:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=299"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:30:04","slug":"bike-friendly-hervey-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/07\/bike-friendly-hervey-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Friendly Hervey Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

After another long day of driving, I finally managed to punch through – out of the Tropic of Capricorn to nice dry Mediterranean-style weather. What a relief it is to be able to take a bike ride without sweating profusely at the slightest effort. I’ve arrived in a nice little launch pad for Fraser Island that is VERY bike-friendly, has endless beaches, a good ~20km bike path the entire way, a bike-friendly 1km long pier\/jetty, nice stinger-free and croc-free swimming, and not too much commercialism or elite resorts clogging the place up. My kind of place, Hervey Bay. It seemed very community-oriented. I’m checked into a YHA here and was a bit taken aback to find no air conditioning, but I don’t think I’ll need it since it is cooling off nicely. Must be in the middle of pineapple land because I’ve seen quite a few roadside stands selling nothing but pineapple since I got here.<\/p>\n

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Hervey Bay Coastal Ride & Swim<\/strong>
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