Noosa Heads, Rainbow Beach

I'd describe Noosa as the posh touristy town of the East Coast! It's in a gorgeous setting, and has a lovely national park at the end of the peninsula area. The residential areas look totally luxurious and everything's extremely expensive...you'd need a lot of money to spend some time there!



We camped really near the beach, and in the morning went to the N.P. to explore the trails - really worth stopping there though, the area is lovely. After a legendary Copenhagen icecream (seriously, the best so far!) we made a brief stop at the nearby Ginger & Macadamia Nut Factories. Then we headed north to Rainbow Beach to check out our options for a Fraser Island trip.




Decided to book through Dingo's Backpackers to do a self-guided 4WD tour, then walked up to Carlo Sandblow that evening for views out to Double Island Point.



In the morning we walked at Rainbow Beach - the cliffs are made up from 90 different colours of sand. According to aboriginal tales, a spirit of the Gods who represented the rainbow was killed in a fight there, and his scattered spirits coloured the sands forever. On to the Bymien Picnic Area, where I ran through a forest track to Lake Freshwater, then back via a 4WD track (seemed like a good idea until I'd run 2km uphill in sand).










Got back to Dingo's for the Fraser Island briefing, and met the rest of our 'team' for the adventure.