Fraser Island and Rainbow Beach

Its been a while since we stayed at Rainbow Beach, about 30 years as a matter of fact. Rainbow has lost none of its beauty, seascapes or wonderful sand dunes including the coloured sands.Now there is quite an up-market shopping centre that caters for all needs. Not your grand Stockland or anything like that, this IS Rainbow Beach after all. We had a great meal at the local pub on one of  "My turn to cook" nights but the rest of the time we self catered. Any shopping requirements were ably met by visiting the local IGA. We also had a few pre-dinner drinks at the local Bowling club and that was fine. The highlight of our stay though was undoubtedly our trip to Fraser Island. Stay tuned for more details on that one.
We met a lovely couple from Port melbourne, Bill and leigh, their site was diagonally opposite ours and we hit it off well. Bill and I went pumping yabbies together out at Inskip Point and later fished together at that same beach. We had a few happy hours with them and they left the day before we did. On that day, we went out to Inskip on  our own and had a go at the deep sand to get into, but not on, the beach. The Khumo tyres worked a treat. This was really deep sand and i didn't even have to engage low range to get through. the Landcruiser and the Khumos make a formidable team. Our next time there I engaged low range, as well as using the diff locker and it was even easier. The furrows in the sand were about 30cm deep and we had no trouble at all.
We have moved on and have left the coast behind as we left Yeppoon, Rockhampton and Emerald travelling West. A couple of nights at Sapphire/ Rubyvale and on to The Willows gemfields where we have met up with Ivan and Sally once again.The first day after set up/ arrival yesterday for us both and we are out on the diggings searching for those elusive sapphires. Nothing to report on that front at the moment but wait for it, it will happen.....