RAINBOW BEACH

Hey everyone,

I'm writing this in a thunder and lightening storm so I apologise for any mistakes and random typos as you should all know how much I hate these types of storms!! Lets hope the power stays on long enough to type this!

Well today has been amazing fun, I've seen the largest vegetated sand dunes in the world (which also consist of different coloured sands!), dolphins, turtles, a shipwreck from the worst storm on record in 1973, Honeymoon beach, a rainforest on a sand dune and the heaviest rain ever!! All of the above was experienced on surf and sand safari's tour of 'Cooloola National Park and Coloured Sands". The vehicle we took was rather strange, it was a 4x4 vehicle which when in water, acts as a boat! see the photo below:

How cool does that look!!
Here is a photo of part of the sand dunes on Rainbow Beach, look at the number of different colours of sand! apparently it is to do with the different minerals in the water. At the bottom of the sand dunes there are springs with fresh drinking water that runs into the sea. We tasted the water but I still believe good old Scottish water is best!
When on the Larc (the yellow vehicle above) there was a boom net which we could go on. Below is a photo of Mark, me and Jo on the net, it was great fun. Mark and Jo are also on the training programme with me so you will no doubt hear them mentioned numerous times later in the week!
We then headed up to Double Island Point which is the 2nd most eastern point in Oz. below is a photo of part of the amazing 360 degrees view.

The beach on the right is the beach we drove along to see the shipwreck and this is the point from where we saw the dolphins and the turtles swimming below. There was also a lighthouse up here but not enough time to upload the photo I'm afraid!

We then headed along the top of the sand dunes - nothing like those at hone, the photo below shows the view we got from the bus......trees, trees and more trees! There was also a rainforest part that we went through to, and yup, it was on the sand dunes too!

Then the rain started at 3.30pm and it has rained since including thunder storms.

Been a great day though. Hope you enjoy the photos!

Love,

L

xxxx