Red Elephant Excitement at Rainbow Beach

Today we just travelled up the road to Rainbow Beach.  Rainbow beach is a far way in off the highway.  Driving  in we passed vast tracts of pine forests something that I did not expect to see up this way.  There was also a great plume of smoke in the distance, could it be the sugar cane burning perhaps?

We arrived at Rainbow Beach to much excitement.  All the grey nomads popped out of their  van to see the newcomer and how on earth we where going to get our "Willow" in such a small site in an awkward location.  There was all sorts of advice and after Pete nearly took out the fully loaded washing  line.  I was sent to get the man with the tractor who would get our van on the site no worries.  Well the man gave me the keys to the tractor then thought better of it.  He had Willow in position in no time at all and we quickly set up to the sound of our rumbling tummies.

After a bit more chatting with our new neighbours we set of a walk of Rainbow Beach.  It is a lovely little village with a main street that leads straight to the beach.  On the beach was a 4wd Police car on patrol.  The local Surf Life Club has a bistro that overlooks the beach.  We also discovered some great playgrounds that Grace and James tested out.  We then went on an explore looking for the Sand Blow that our neighbours at the park had told us about.  This ended up being a massive sand dune.  Grace and James immediately climbed up the "sand blow" and then ran back down with James building up speed and doing a big face plant at the end.  Pete caught Grace before she went plummeting over the edge.  The kids then convinced me to climb the sand blow and run down because it was so much fun.  Let me tell you it was no fun going up, but a great view at the top,  much more fun going down.

what is Mr Red Elephant pointing to?

Rainbow Cliffs of Rainbow Beach

Tomorrow we will go to Tin Can Bay to see the wild dolphins being fed and the return to the park to hang out and the kids might end up getting wet either at the beach or in the pool.

I am really liking Rainbow Beach it has a nice feel about it the park is nice and clean and looks nearly book out with grey nomads and I have detected some international voices.

Oh and the great plume of smoke that looked like it was getting closer and scarier was QLD national parks doing some back burning.  After a light shower of rain it all but disappeared

We then need to make a big decision "do we go to Fraser Island on a tour or do we try and drive it ourselves?"  Watch this space