Hervey Bay ( /ˈhɑrvi ˈbeɪ/) is a city in Queensland, Australia. The city is situated approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane, and lies on the coast of a natural bay between the Queensland mainland and nearby Fraser Island. The local economy relies on tourism, for which whale watching, Fraser Island and Lady Elliot Island and Hervey Bay's calm beaches are the major drawcards. Hervey Bay is an area of high population growth.
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Famous quotes containing the words hervey and/or bay:
“He’s yours from now on, together with all his accomplishments, including his yelp, appetite and fleas.”
—Griffin Jay, and Reginald LeBorg. Tom Hervey (Robert Lowery)
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)