Day 1: It was just a normal coach that brought me back down to Rainbow Beach overnight, so opportunities for getting some sleep we fairly limited. I managed to get a bit though and had only planned a fairly chilled day in Rainbow anyway.
After checking back into the hostel, I took a wander down to the beach, since I hadn't had the chance to do it on my previous visit. It's pretty nice (not rainbow coloured though) but my walk was spoiled by the heavens opening and heavy rainfall for the rest of the morning and the early part of the afternoon. Gave me an opportunity to get some laundry done though. Great!
Late afternoon, the hostel had a free bushwalk organised up to Carlo Sand Blow so I got involved. Our guide was an Aussie guy called Jed, who we had met prior to our Fraser trip. Really nice guy who led us on the hour-long walk up to the natural sandblow, which was also named by Captain Cook.
Once we got there, we all had a chance to try Sandboarding and Boomerang throwing. The Sandboarding was really hard but good fun as you lay on the board and go head first down the steep Sand-Dunes. I managed to stay on for a while before hitting a slight hump, which threw me off the board and gave me a nice meal of sand, which I was still spitting out well into the evening. Not very tasty let me tell you. It was a good laugh though because the same thing happened to most people.
The Boomerang throwing was just as difficult and often involved us all diving for cover when it went wrong and started hurtling towards us. Three of us managed to catch it on it's return though and earned ourselves a free Beer back on the hostel. Don't mind if I do. We then walked back down to Rainbow.
A fairly quiet evening at the hostel, where I picked up my free Beer, met another Irish lad called Dan and watched a game of Aussie Rules that was on the TV. It's a terrible game if you've never watched it - such a mess of a game.
That's me done with Rainbow Beach. Off to Noosa first thing in the morning.
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