Lyndall’s guidebook to Rainbow Beach
Sightseeing
While staying at Rainbow Beach, a visit to the Carlo Sand Blow is a must.
The scenery from the top is just stunning with views of Double Island Point, Tin Can Bay and the coloured sands.
To get there drive to the end of Cooloola Drive and take a short walk along a wooded track to the natural sand blow.
You won’t be disappointed. Extra special times to visit are sunrise or sunset … spectacular.
Be sure to take your boogie board for some sand surfing fun!
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Carlo Sand Blow
Cooloola DriveWhile staying at Rainbow Beach, a visit to the Carlo Sand Blow is a must.
The scenery from the top is just stunning with views of Double Island Point, Tin Can Bay and the coloured sands.
To get there drive to the end of Cooloola Drive and take a short walk along a wooded track to the natural sand blow.
You won’t be disappointed. Extra special times to visit are sunrise or sunset … spectacular.
Be sure to take your boogie board for some sand surfing fun!
Way back in the dreamtime there lived by the beach a beautiful, black maiden named Murrawar who fell in love with the Rainbow who came to visit her every evening in the sky. She would clap her hands and sing to this lovely Rainbow.
One day Burwilla, a very bad man from a distant tribe, stole Murrawar for his slave wife. Often beating her cruelly and making her do all his work while he sat in the shade admiring his terrible killing boomerang. This boomerang was bigger than the biggest tree and full of evil spirits.
One day Murrawar ran away and as she hurried along near the beach, which was then all flat, she looked back and saw Burwilla’s boomerang coming to kill her. Calling out for help she fell to the ground to frightened to run. Suddenly she heard a loud noise in the sky and saw her faithful Rainbow racing towards her across the sea.
The wicked Burwilla attacked the brave Rainbow and they met with a roar like thunder. The boomerang died instantly, and the Rainbow shattered into many pieces, which fell to the beach forming the coloured sands cliffs which are still there to this day.
Walk along Rainbow Beach, preferably at low tide, past rocks, caves and freshwater springs to the awesome coloured sands that tower 80 metres over the beach about two kilometres south of Rainbow Beach Surf Life Saving Club.
The complex array of tones and hues of the sands exposed by erosion contain as many as 72 different colours. It is thought that the sands have been forming since the last ice age, as a result of iron oxide and leached vegetable dyes. Low tide is an ideal time to visit. Beach driving is permitted in the area although vehicle access permits are needed for some designated tracks and beaches. The colours will amaze.
Coloured Sands
5 Rainbow Shores DrWay back in the dreamtime there lived by the beach a beautiful, black maiden named Murrawar who fell in love with the Rainbow who came to visit her every evening in the sky. She would clap her hands and sing to this lovely Rainbow.
One day Burwilla, a very bad man from a distant tribe, stole Murrawar for his slave wife. Often beating her cruelly and making her do all his work while he sat in the shade admiring his terrible killing boomerang. This boomerang was bigger than the biggest tree and full of evil spirits.
One day Murrawar ran away and as she hurried along near the beach, which was then all flat, she looked back and saw Burwilla’s boomerang coming to kill her. Calling out for help she fell to the ground to frightened to run. Suddenly she heard a loud noise in the sky and saw her faithful Rainbow racing towards her across the sea.
The wicked Burwilla attacked the brave Rainbow and they met with a roar like thunder. The boomerang died instantly, and the Rainbow shattered into many pieces, which fell to the beach forming the coloured sands cliffs which are still there to this day.
Walk along Rainbow Beach, preferably at low tide, past rocks, caves and freshwater springs to the awesome coloured sands that tower 80 metres over the beach about two kilometres south of Rainbow Beach Surf Life Saving Club.
The complex array of tones and hues of the sands exposed by erosion contain as many as 72 different colours. It is thought that the sands have been forming since the last ice age, as a result of iron oxide and leached vegetable dyes. Low tide is an ideal time to visit. Beach driving is permitted in the area although vehicle access permits are needed for some designated tracks and beaches. The colours will amaze.
The Cooloola National Park is a section of the Great Sandy National Park stretching from Rainbow Beach to the Noosa river.
Enjoy bush walking, boating, fishing, picnics and swimming; the Cooloola National Park has many picnic areas and bushwalking tracks to explore.
Areas of interest include Seary’s Creek, Bymien picnic grounds, Lake Poona, Cooloola Great Walk and the Cooloola Wilderness Trail. Camping on the Beach at Teewah or at the Freshwater Campgrounds is a unique experience
Call in for more information on this beautiful part of the world.
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Great Sandy National Park
The Cooloola National Park is a section of the Great Sandy National Park stretching from Rainbow Beach to the Noosa river.
Enjoy bush walking, boating, fishing, picnics and swimming; the Cooloola National Park has many picnic areas and bushwalking tracks to explore.
Areas of interest include Seary’s Creek, Bymien picnic grounds, Lake Poona, Cooloola Great Walk and the Cooloola Wilderness Trail. Camping on the Beach at Teewah or at the Freshwater Campgrounds is a unique experience
Call in for more information on this beautiful part of the world.
This spectacular lookout offers the best scenery anywhere in the world.
Pods of dolphins, turtles, dugongs, sharks and other marine life can often be seen from here. Down along the beach is Double Island Point with the longest wave break in Australia.
A sight to behold! Tours available… just pop in and we will organise everything for you.
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Double Island Point Lighthouse
This spectacular lookout offers the best scenery anywhere in the world.
Pods of dolphins, turtles, dugongs, sharks and other marine life can often be seen from here. Down along the beach is Double Island Point with the longest wave break in Australia.
A sight to behold! Tours available… just pop in and we will organise everything for you.
The aboriginal name for Inskip Point is Carah. It was the site for a school for the children of the local lighthouse keeper and timber workers.
Today it is the gateway to Fraser Island with barges on the go from sunup to sundown. Great fishing can also be had – both Estuary and Beach fishing.
Inskip’s real claim to fame is it’s camping grounds which are run by ‘National Parks’
You’ll really get away from it all.
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Inskip
The aboriginal name for Inskip Point is Carah. It was the site for a school for the children of the local lighthouse keeper and timber workers.
Today it is the gateway to Fraser Island with barges on the go from sunup to sundown. Great fishing can also be had – both Estuary and Beach fishing.
Inskip’s real claim to fame is it’s camping grounds which are run by ‘National Parks’
You’ll really get away from it all.
A beautiful tea-coloured freshwater lake surrounded by a white sandy beach. To get there just drive to the Bymien picnic area and take the 2.2km walking track for a cool refreshing swim.
Poona Lake is an oasis and one of the few places on Earth where rainforests grow on ancient sand dunes.
This is the land of the Kabi people, a perched lake formed between the dunes, Poona Lake’s banks are lined with twisted paperbarks, sedges and reeds, while its reddish-tinged waters, stained by the surrounding native tea trees, are surprisingly clear up close.
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Poona Lake
A beautiful tea-coloured freshwater lake surrounded by a white sandy beach. To get there just drive to the Bymien picnic area and take the 2.2km walking track for a cool refreshing swim.
Poona Lake is an oasis and one of the few places on Earth where rainforests grow on ancient sand dunes.
This is the land of the Kabi people, a perched lake formed between the dunes, Poona Lake’s banks are lined with twisted paperbarks, sedges and reeds, while its reddish-tinged waters, stained by the surrounding native tea trees, are surprisingly clear up close.
Discover refreshing swimming holes at Seary’s Creek day rest area on Rainbow Beach Road, seven and a half kilometre south of Rainbow Beach.
The one hundred metre wheelchair accessible timber boardwalk passes through heath and low woodland. Seary’s Creek was named after Patrick Searey who was one of the early timber getters to work on Fraser Island in the 1860′s.
It was Patrick who introduced bullock teams to haul the enormous Kauri Pine logs to Seary’s Creek where they were rafted to a sawmill on the banks.
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Searys Creek
Discover refreshing swimming holes at Seary’s Creek day rest area on Rainbow Beach Road, seven and a half kilometre south of Rainbow Beach.
The one hundred metre wheelchair accessible timber boardwalk passes through heath and low woodland. Seary’s Creek was named after Patrick Searey who was one of the early timber getters to work on Fraser Island in the 1860′s.
It was Patrick who introduced bullock teams to haul the enormous Kauri Pine logs to Seary’s Creek where they were rafted to a sawmill on the banks.
Surfing, Swimming, Kayak - accessible by 4WD only
Permit required
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Double Island Point
Surfing, Swimming, Kayak - accessible by 4WD only
Permit required
Barnacles
Norman PointWild Dolphin Feeding daily 7-8am