Rainbow Beach is a tiny village at the foot of a stunning national park. Driving through the park was beautiful and we saw many wild horses which was amazing! The village is called rainbow beach as the cliffs are made from mulit couloured sand! We spent a day and night at this pretty town, and moved on to Hervey Bay.
Our journey to hervey bay was an experience! We set off with over a quarter of a tank of petrol, which in any normal car would be sufficient to get to the next town. However, not for our Jucy! She (of course a woman!) eats petrol like girls eat chocolate when its that time. We were driving through the national park (normally very nice) when the red light came on. We panicked! But 2 miles on the red light went off. Then on again. Then off. This went on for a little while, and blood sugar levels were dropping. May we remind you Oz national parks is where the 9/10 most deadliest snakes in the world reside, so its not the kinda place u wanna break down or walk through. We finally got to some roadworks where we were told a petrol station was a litle more than 10 miles away - great! we turned the a/c off, the radio off, closed the windows and sweat our way to the petrol station, where we finally got there!!!!!!!! Gave ourselves a pat on our sweaty backs and decided to always fill up, even when going to the supermarket.
Hervey Bay is the gateway to Fraser Island. It is not really one town but lots of little towns spread across an area of coastline, therefore there was not really a nice area to walk around and the beaches werent that nice! So we spent the day by the pool at the campsite (yes campsites have pools!!) Our slot for the night was positioned right next to a tree full of magpies. So Sam had to go to the reception and request us to be moved!!!! We didnt really like Hervey Bay so first thing the next morning we left for the town of 1770!
Town of 1770 was the first place the drunken Captain Cook set down on when he discovered the prison of Australia! Not the most original of names and not the most of happening towns (probably the same as when we first got there). However, there is 1 thing that every backpacker (and mid-life crisis victims) has to do - the scooteroooooooo!!! http://www.scooteroo.com.au/ A 3 hour journey on motorbike looking scooters, flexing a leather jacket with sunglasses, we could join hells angels any day! the 3 hour ride takes in the surrounding areas of the town and the local wildlife (kangaroos!). They were also filming for the best job in the world documentary, which should be on our screens soon. At the end of the trip we ended up right on the beach watching the sunset with a packet of chips! It was so much fun and we wished we could do it again!
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