The gorgeous Rainbow Beach is located below Harvey Beach and to the South of Fraser Island. This place was recommended to us by our great friends Rob and Alison, who toured part of Australia last year. After checking into Rainbow Waters Caravan Park, we headed down into the small town, purchased our national park permit and went for a small drive on the sand.

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The following day, we celebrated Zach’s  7^th birthday with a beach party back on the beach.  We even had a rather large lizard come to join the party! This beach is amazing because it is made up of a large variety of coloured sands. The kids (and Joe!) enjoyed collecting as many colours as they could find and placed each colour in a little clip bag. Later on, we did a bottled coloured sand craft- it’s amazing the variety of colours! I read that the beach boasts 72 different colours! During low tide, we enjoyed a trip up the beach, through the Leisha Track (a partially boarded track cutting through the trees) and a swim amongst the rock pools on the other side. Coming back before high tide, Joe quite enjoyed using his recovery kit and pulling out not one, but two 4WD’s stuck in the sand. We learnt quite a few handy tips from our guided tour back on Stockton Beach (Nelson Bay) that we were able to use and pass on!

We then headed up to the Carlo Sand Blow (drive then 1km walk).  It was amazing to see the force that the wind had on blowing the sand right up and over the mountain, thus covering and killing off the vegetation. The kids looked like ants as they ran across it. Heading back to the van, we made full use of our wonderful kitchen and made Zach one of his favourite dinners- Kebabs and Cheesy Vegetable Bake!