Here come the bats!

One incredible (and rather scary) spectacle at Hervey Bay was the nightly arrival of the Fruit Bats. Every night after sunset, when the sky was just turning a deep purple thousands upon thousands of bats filled the sky. If you don't like bats then I'm sure you would pretty quickly fill your pants.

Luckily we could just about handle it, although we made sure we stayed under cover when they were in full swing as we didn't really fancy the idea of being covered on by rabbie infested bat gunk!

Yet another fine spectacle of mother natures watercolour painting skills

A Pelican flies off into the sunset

Parrots flying in to roost for the night

A Possum ventures out a bit earlier than expected. This female was being followed by a single baby and didn't seem afraid of us at all.

And here come the bats! This picture doesn't really do them justice. Apparantly around seven million of them occupy this area of Hervey Bay!

Shad and Dan hiding from the bat crap! This was our wee base for the week in Hervey Bay. Very posh indeed.

We ventured out for a relatively quiet one tonight and met up with Steve and John.

Who encouraged us to sample the local delicacy... Bundaberg Rum and Coke. Not bad either!