Blogs from Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

I like Rainbow Beach very much. It is like a miniature version of Port Douglas without the heat and all the people. We spent the day investigate potential fishing sites, Inskip Point where the Fraser Island ferry leaves from, the shops and beaches. We also had a lovely lunch at Jilarty Café – good food and good value. I like Rainbow Waters Caravan Park a lot too. We are just a very short stroll to the waters edge in a lovely grassed area. There are enough trees around us to give a “bush” feel without worrying about trees falling on us. There are lots of birds around, including magpies, butcher birds, bush turkeys and kookaburras. Frank was hand feeding dried biscuits to a magpie. Yes, I know, not standard magpie food, be it seemed to have ... read more

After our 7 hour bus journey we arrived at Rainbow beach around 3pm. It was red hot but luckily we got dropped off right outside our hostel, Frasers on Rainbow. It took a while to check in but when we did we met two girls from Essex in our room, Lucy and Millie, who both seemed pretty cool. We had a chat and then went by the pool, the girls were already really brown and it wasn't hard to see why because as me and Freeman dived in the pool they just lay next to it sunbathing, typical girls! In the afternoon we all had to gather in the bar to watch a safety briefing on Fraser Island for our tour the next day which was the most ridiculous and boring video ever, I struggled to ... read more

Continuing south on our journey home, we had a rendezvouz with Uncle Jack and Lyndal in Tin Can Bay, yes we like it here. We are heading south, J & L are heading north to Mackay, to go out on son petes' 40 foot cruiser for a spot of reef fishing, lucky buggers. We set the meeting place at TCB yacht club, very classy, neither of us have a yacht, but who cares? We enjoyed coffee and cake at the dolphinarium, and casually enquired as to how Tin Can Bay got its unusual name, well there are two theories, one is, that in the early days the mail came by boat and was floated up river in a tin can, well thats' a bit of a stretch, the other theory, that we like is the local ... read more

Every now, not so much then, we need to throw off the entanglements of crazy society. Strip away all the madness of machines, and just simply be. We left "Ranger Phil" and the party packers, at Rainbow Beach to sort out their stuff and decided it was time for a bush camp. Time for Bilbo and Basho to go feral, about 10 ks out of Rainbow Beach, the road climbed to a distant ridge. We spotted a great bush camp with lots of shrubbery to hide us from the road. Bush camps by nature can be scary at times, with wild animals, wild fires, wild people, its important to have an emergency evacuation plan, we found the perfect place, Bushwalker car park, just hidden from view, not too far from the road, a nice little place ... read more

Dear everybody Greetings from somewhere along the East-coast of the amazing country.. ( I am currently in the bus towards my new destination). I am doing very fine, still having good fun, enjoying the things that this country offers me and meeting awesome people along the road! Since my last update I went to Airlie Beach, from where I went on a sailingtrip around the Whitsundays. The weather was great and this was an awesome experience including awesome nature scenery, landscapes and animals, snorkeling and diving at the reef and living on the Apollo, a former racer! Some of the highlights., sailing at high speed, watching the sunset from the boat, party on board and this amazing beach, that deserved its name totally, white heaven beach (I so want to spent the night there one day, ... read more