Hervey Bay to Yeppoon on ANZAC Day

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and ANZAC Day is April 25th; it's the day troops landed in Gallipoli - this year was the 100th anniversary and so was marked especially well with marches and ceremonies in both Australia and in Turkey.
Yesterday when were were on our tour of Fraser Island, our guide Murray talked to other guides while we were floating down Eli Creek, and found out that a large group of students from New Zealand were staying on the Island overnight so that they could have a dawn service at the wreck of the Maheno, which was a hospital ship in WWI. They had brought the bell from the ship; it was removed from the Maheno before it was sold for scrap; the students rang it at dawn. Services were held all over Australia and in Turkey as the sun came up, since it was at dawn when troops landed. They showed a clip of the NZ students ringing the bell at the Fraser Island beach on the TV news.

Driving slowly behind a parade

Every little town had ceremonies and marches and once we were detoured around the main street and once we had to wait, then follow the marchers through town until they turned off.