Camping, fishing, and surfing Rainbow beach and Inskip Point

The World Heritage listed Fraser Island is the world`s largest sand island stretching over 123km in length. The very fine sand has a really high silica content (98%) and that`s what makes it look so white as it reflects almost all of the sun`s light. The 5 minute barge ride from Inskip Point, 10km North of Rainbow Beach, took us to Hook Point at...

So we left Eungella and the platypus, and headed back to Mackay for the evening, well some of the evening. Our bus south left at 2 A.M. and we got back from the National Park at about 2 pm. We decided, since everything we had was wet, and we were exhausted, that we better get a room anyways. We asked when we got to the reception if they had a wa...

We had 3 days in Rainbow Beach. The first day it rained so we didn't do alot. The second day was brilliant as we got offered a free 4x4 trip. The owner had just started his business and wanted to test it out, and luckily for us we were the ones he asked. It was an amazing day, it was a self drive tour and we got to go up into the rainforest, it ...

I fell asleep on the couch in the lounge at Pippies from the night before and got blamed for making a huge mess and being noisy. They tried to charge me when Max checked out of the room, but fortunetly Max was the only one who paid for the key deposit so we didn't get charged. We hung around the hostel after checking out and didn't do a whole lo...

Har kommet frem til Rainbow Beach for et par timer siden. 3 timer forsinka. Det har regnet saa mye at bussen kom 3 timer forsinka til Airlie Beach for aa plukke oss opp. Det er klart at Australia maatte diske opp med noe riktig ekstraordinaert naar jeg endelig skulle avlegge kontinentet et besoek. Det er det verste regnet som har vaert siden i 1...

Rainbow beach was our next main stop where we got to go to Fraiser island. We had this package deal booked where we took a different 4x4 onto the island. It was all packed up and there were about 10 of us altogether. It was not what we were expecting at all but it ended up being lots of fun. First of all we had loads of stuff to get, loads of gr...

This is a grand little chilled out area. It seems to be a place where Aussies go to have a few days off. Its only a samll village witha great beach. But god it was very hot there. We only stayed here one night becase we were running out of time now and we had a little bit still to cover. There is a massive sand dune here which overlooks the vill...

So after a long overnight journey from Airlie Beach, where I narrowly avoided some flooding, to the small and quiet town of Rainbow Beach, I was ready for an early night. Rainbow Beach is the nearest gateway to a trip to Frazer Island, as it takes just 7 minutes on the barge across, rather than the two and a half hours it takes from the next nea...

Well landed today after a very long overnight trip. Met the scots again in Airlie and the last night was very heavy. Two hours sleep then on the bus couldn't sleep so you can guess was fecked. anyways enough of the small talk - frasers tomorrow. They've been having bad weather here and the island was evacuated for the last 2/3 weeks. It's only r...