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For the past six months, I have been a temp chef and loving it, I was sent to Hervey Bay for a remote job for the holiday season, Christmas and New years.

It was also my first long distance train ride with food carriage and even an entertainment screen. I got to catch up on a few movies, Super Mario and Living.

After the train ride, there was still a bus ride to get to Hervey Bay. The bus dropped us off at a Stockland shopping centre, there was a Maccas and many other fast food chains, thus Hervey Bay may be a beach side town, it has all the usual suspects. My motel was a 15min drive away and right across from the water, so was my place of work, so beach life would be a must.

The Esplanade in Hervey Bay is beautiful and vast, I walked it for an hour, along my walk the waterfront changes, there are parts that are just concrete wall and pavement, grass areas, holiday parks, a restaurant here and there. I couldn't help but admired the bench seats placed in prime spots throughout, usually amongst the trees, the romantic in me, imagined the moments that these benches would see. My favourite parts were the grass areas, I had so much appreciation for the garden designs, a large tree trunk that had tall and short benches that circles it and huge logs that played as centre pieces in garden beds. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of the stunning parts.

Hervey Bay is one of those places, where the locals say good morning as you walk by. I even had a conversations with a older gentlemen under some covered bench seats while we both waited for the rain to die down. The conversation led to that he had wanted to be a chef and his love of cooking. My advice was "it's never too late". 

There were some interesting stormy days there, the rain pounding hard on tin roofs the pavement. When I walked out my motel room the next morning, it was evident that a storm had come, trees had lost branches and because they were near the road, that is where they lay. I came to have the understanding that for  every bit of sun, there would be a storm so the weather stayed in the nice warm zone, rather than the hot, humid Queensland summer that people had warned me of. And I believed them, because whenever the sun was out in Brisbane, it singed my skin, it made me think of Count Dracula in the Minions movie intro. 

Half way through my time in Hervey Bay, I was moved to Main Street, away from the beach side and in between too shopping centres. The whale tail caught my attention, the interesting fish bench seat too and when I was on the right side of the building, I found Vermeer's Lady in blue and Van Gogh's Starry night.

It was fun to try out a sea change, however my love of travel and being close to an airport is more my kind of town, thanks Hervey Bay for having me, you are very picturesque.