Rainbow Beach

Day Three and we were a bit sick of the campsite at Hervey Bay and the dog-safe areas weren't really doing it for us so we decided to head down to Rainbow Beach where we've been camping before.

We packed everything up and headed off for a couple-of-hours drive cross country through beautiful remote forest reserves and down past Tin Can Bay to Rainbow Beach.

Chris and Nicky aborted their Whalewatching due to expense and not actually having found a trip to go on. Nicky decided to accompany us to Rainbow Beach, then she'd get back to Brisbane to be about her business.

We got there in the middle of the day and the boys had the tents up, no fuss, no nonsense. We went to the beach. Just for a change. The tide was in and we hopped over the rocks and so on and so forth. And very nice it was too.

Our industrial strength insect repellent was on hand and playing its role although the sand flies were still a bother. The campsite was absolutely hoaching with them as dusk approached.

Darkness fell and the Slimm pyromaniacs went about their business, gathering wood and making a fire.

I went off the find some wood and got horrendously lost. In the dark the woods suddenly became quite spooky and a lot larger. It seemed to take twice as long to get anywhere. I took bearings on a little light that looked like our fire but unfortunately turned out not to be...

But when the moon set the sky was amazing, stars beyond counting and not a cloud in the sky, apart from two clouds which strangely didn't move relative the stars around them which I decided were more than likely the Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.