Rainbow Beach

We travelled south to Rainbow Beach, where we had a site booked at the holiday village for 4 nights. We stopped off at Maryborough to get some provisions along the way.
It was scorching hot as we arrived on our campsite. Reversing the trailer onto our pitch highlighted the noise problem with our car. A chap on the adjacent pitch told us it sounded very serious!! We hurriedly dropped everything onto our site, emptying the car completely in case we ended up leaving the car at the garage. Our new neighbour found us the details of the local 4x4 specialist, and we drove around to them with trepidation. Large dollar signs were ringing in our heads.
Once again, the service was very quick, very efficient, and very friendly. We were imagining being stuck while a new differential was delivered. However, all that was needed was a bit of oil on the rear metal plates which were grinding against each other with only dried up oil between them. $160 dollars and 45 mins later we left the garage mightily relieved.
The township is named for the colourful sands in the cliffs nearby, which you can normally walk to along the beach. Cyclone Alfred put paid to that. The walk to the cliffs is only able to be completed at low tide, but the sand has been washed away to leave rugged impassable rocky structures.
We spent our days on the beach, enjoying the great surf and warm water.
One day we drove to see the great Carlo sand blow, amazing and a spot for hang gliders. We also drove up the peninsular to Inskip Point which is where there is a southern access onto K' Gari (Fraser Island). There were a lot of people fishing the waters there. The barge to K'Gari was plying backwards and forwards across the water.
The next day we went on a bush walk to Poona lake where we enjoyed a tea-coloured warm lake swim. After that, we drove up to Inskip Point to the beaches there. Locals were pulling small fish out of the waters. We did not venture too far into the sea due to the presence of sharks, rips, stingers etc..
4 days was not really enough time to see and do everything here. Next time when we visit we will do more of the national park walks.Читать далее