Rainbow Beach
Rainbow Beach would have to be our most favourite East Coast places. Not because it has the most attractions, quite the contrary. To be honest it doesn’t offer much in terms of attractions. This little town has 800 permanent residents but the town is swamped with over 70, 000 tourist in a year.
My hat goes off to the residents I think that they all must either work or have someone in the household work in the hospitality industry given the sheer amount of tourists that flow threw the town during the year but with a back drop like Rainbow Beach I can see why they would. If you had to work anywhere I think this is the place where you would get to live the lifestyle and work in a laid back way too. Given the mountain of tourist that swarm each year it amazes me that it is still such a natural untouched spot. The beaches are beautiful and the town has that ultimate beach feel.
We stayed at the caravan for 4 nights and that was to be all but we fell in love with the town and decided to continue to experience it via the National Park. We are doing distance education schooling for the eldest as she started Kindy this yr (NSW) and she loved doing her school work by the beach and thought that was so cool! Win win for us all!
We bought a day permit and drove on the beach, a bit tricky over Mudlo rocks and freely admit bit scary after hearing the warning from the Ranger and reading the brochure they gave as it can be completely impassable at times. It is only able to be crossed on low tide. It was well worth the white knuckles I had after going over them. The girls climbed the sand dunes and we went out to the point where the Double Island Point lighthouse was and saw the Carlo sand blow. It was beyond breathtakingly beautiful.
And talk about perfect timing too, we arrived just days after the start of the Inskip sink hole. We of course checked it out but it was a bit eerie, especially as there were kids swimming around the edge. That freaked me out a bit as on the all the shops there were warning signs and the Ranger made a point of commenting on it and we also saw a local coming off the beach near the Fraser Island ferry and we were talking to him and he said they had had one about 8 years ago and friends of his were swimming at the spot and it got bigger and the pull was big and they nearly drowned and it was a general consensus that it could become bigger at anytime…..so needless to say the girls didn’t not go that close to it and certainly didn’t swim there either.
This is the spot to transfer over to Fraser Island on the barge ferry.
