Blogs from Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 9

Congratulations Queenie! Apparently it was the Queens official birthday on 8th June 2008. How do i know this? Because the good old Australian Nation has a day off for the Queens Birthday so it was off to Rainbow Beach for the long weekend. We left Brisbane, along with everyone else, on Friday evening and had the usual snarl of traffic for the first 30km out of the City then nothing! Everybody seems to dissipate into the infinate surroundings when you reach the city limits and all everything goes silent, apart from the voice behind the Satalite Navigation that we were stupidly placing our trust in! I say stupidly, as what do Sat Nav's ensure they achieve? They get you from A to B via the shortest possible route in the fastest possible time! So to give ... read more

Cattle Ranch Afte hours and hours of passing vast lands of nothing but trees and grass we arrived in a small cattle ranch in the middle of no where. The ranch itself was surrounded by dusty sandy fields of goats and obviously cattle. There were several wooden lodges for sleeping, eating and there was even a small shack which was the bar. The bar had an injured parrot that couldnt fly and it would walk up and down climbing on the beer taps and squarking. We were also introduced to the cattle ranch owner who cooked us up goat, soup,mash and beef for dinner. We were then taught how to break the speed of sound with a whip; this was extremely funny as everyone kept accidently whipping themselves or others. Nick couldn't do it and became ... read more

Didn't think it rained much in Oz, but it does, and it's bigger and wetter rain here, and it seems to come without any warning. We've been chilling in our orange van, here at the lovely Rainbow Beach, sitting out the rain... '...Day 19 in the Big Brother Stupid Van: Captain Airwofl is rolling fags and now has a tidy store of 346 emergency smokes under his pillow. Pikey Pat's winning so far in the 'Grow A Hunchback' game, but Wofl's got a lead in the 'Cover Up The Holes On The Van Ceiling & Walls' sticker game as he eats more fruit...' ...We've seen a few 'Hippy Campers' around Rainbow and they look like newer vans with definitely better conversions inside - fridge, 240v hook up, kettle... and not that much dearer looking at the ... read more

Hi everyone! So, I arrived safely in Rainbow beach. I was a bit dissapointed cos the beach has been ruined from all the bad weather they have had here, so we didn't get to see the multi coloured sand :o( Its a really nice place here, very quiet but nice. On Tuesday morning we got up very early 6.15am!!!! It was worth it though cos we got a boat over to Tin Can Bay and hand fed wild Dolphins!!! It was amazing! There was a little family of them. They just come over for some food and attention. The ones who came over were called Mystique and Harmony. They were beautiful! It has been really rainy here since we got here, but still warm. Yesterday raind for a bit in the morning, but then it was ... read more

The most spectacular thing about Rainbow Beach was not the beach itself, but an incredible sand dune we walked to. I've never seen anything like it; it's like walking into a desert that meets the sea yet engulfs the forest. It was quite spectacular.... read more