Blogs from Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 11

Hi all! I think the last I worte was about Noosa, that seems like a lifetime ago! I went to Rainbow Beach from there as I'd heard it was a really nice place and I had 2 days to chill before going to Fraser Island. Unfortunately the weather was pretty rubbish and other than a beach there is literally NOTHING to do in Rainbow! The days seemed to last forever, I read 5 trashy magazines that the cleaner gave me out of sympathy, watched films that the pitying hostel put on and generally waited, it was painful! However, then there was Fraser Island!!! I was quite worried about what my group would be like but they were great! There was a lovely fellow yorkshire lass who was my age, 2 irsish guys a similar age ... read more

You know that feeling you get when you turn up at a swanky party looking all glam and dressed to kill? And then you spot another partygoer with the same frock as you? The shame, the embarrassment, the outrage. Well, imagine the feeling when we turned up at our Noosa campsite only to find someone with the same A$13 tent as us. In the same yellow and red colour scheme too. Outrageous. Well, we recovered enough dignity to still enjoy ourselves over the last few days. Started off on Monday saying goodbye to our very good host Emma and heading North. Got to our first stop of the day at Yatala. It was simply to stock up for lunch. Yatala is home to a famous pie shop (plus a big pie - about 3m tall) so ... read more

We were only in Rainbow beach for 2 nights . ... we checked into Dindo's backpackers late when the bus arrived....it was really good cos we met up with Louise, Charlotte and Megan there and we hadn't seen them for a while. We also met Megan's Boyfriend Chris who was class and loved playing pool and football and messing around just as much as Ant does!! Chris was only out to visit Megan for 2 weeks but it ment he could do the Fraser Island trip with us anfd do a bit of the East Coast! Unfortuantly the main thing to see in Rainbow Beach is th Carlos Sandblow which is a massive 120metre high sand dune...but it was closed for nature work to be done on it so we could only see it from ... read more

Arrived at Rainbow Beach after a long day of travelling (went through Surfer's Paradise and am quite glad I didn't stop there - seemed to be just full of skyscrapers!) and headed straight out of Dingos to explore the town. You realise very soon that there isn't very much at all to see and do in Rainbow Beach apart from walk along the beach (lots of different sandy colours, hence the name) and have a very short wander in the three or so shops they have there. We met some girls where we were staying who were stranded there for four days thanks to Peter Pans excellent booking! I quickly learned that Rainbow Beach was really just the gateway to Fraser Island (the world's largest sand island). It's not really the kind of place you'd ... read more

After the briefest of stays in Noosa we headed further north to Rainbow Beach. We were mainly heading to Rainbow Beach as it is a major starting point for trips to Fraser Island. We arrived quite late in the evening at Dingo's hostel. After checking in we headed to find some grub but most of the town had shut up. Having a nose for these types of things we eventually found a pizzeria on the far side of the village. After that we met our roommates, most of whom appeared to be working in the hostel in one job or another. The following day we headed down to Rainbow's beautiful beach. This was the first place we have been in Australia that we could swim in the ocean without fear of jellyfish (So just the sharks ... read more