Rain please go away we have had enough of you

Spent a few hours driving down the Bruce Highway – had quick visits to Mooloolaba which was quite a nice coastal town then Maroochydore, Coolum, Noosa and Maryborough none of which impressed that much. 

Headed for the coast again, destination Hervey Bay which a very nice lady at the information centre told us was worth visiting.  Yep it felt like us from the moment we headed into town.  Followed the road along the beach front for a while until we ended up in Urangan where we found a nice Lions (sorry Rotary) Park to have breakfast.  There is an awesome pier here, about 70yrs ago it was used to export sugar and coal.  Today there is only 600m left of the over 1km pier and it makes a nice walk. 

Tony and I spent a few meters while walking down discussing why there were ‘no diving’ signs along the pier and whether the locals took any notice of them – trying to check whether like their NZ cousins the signs were there to ignore – so options were too shallow, which was actually a good thought as the pier is on a sand bar and at low tide you can actually walk to the end of the pier on the sand.  Another thought was the current and possible rips in the area or just the local council protecting their a….. in case of injury etc.  Well finally we had to ask and yes sort of all the above were good reasons – the one we hadn’t thought of and probably the most compelling reason to NOT jump off the pier was the presence of sharks – lots of them in fact, sounds like a dammed good reason to me.