Rainbow Beach

Well we have just arrived home from a lovely and relaxing weeks' stay at Rainbow Beach (Qld) from the 15th - 22nd December 2007.

We stayed in a little cosy 3 bedroom beach house at Rainbow Shores and Mike, Kate, Jessica and Abbey (and Mike's parents - Tony & Brenda) were staying in another house in the same street.

Last Sunday night, Ian, Sandra and their 2 children Joshua and Ashleigh came and stayed with us for 3 nights and it was nice to catch up with them and the kids all got along so well. Ian is also a photographer and took heaps of photos - so hopefully I can add some of them to this blog.

We did some four wheel driving but unfortunately didn't make it to Fraser Island due to the tides being wrong for us to drive on the beach and it was a pretty miserable day on Tuesday.

But other than that little disappointment, we still went driving through Freshwater Track on the beach where the Cherry Venture used to stand..... (On July 6th, 1973, the Cherry Venture was driven aground in a wild storm at Double Island Point on Noosa's North Shore). She was demolished only recently (Nov 2006) as it was just rust and extremely dangerous.

Ben, McKenzie, Dominic and I went up to Tin Can Bay with Ian, Sandy and the kids to do the Dolphin Feeding. McKenzie was lucky enough to feed one of the dolphins but Dominic wasn't overly interested in the dolphins, he was happy to chase the massive Pelicans!!!!

We were up there at 7am and the dolphin feed was at 8am and then we went to a little park for the kids to run around and we had an nice breakfast / morning tea.

We had some fantastic catch ups at Mike and Kate's place where the kids had a wonderful time swimming every day and also visiting the beach most days. Dinner was always a huge affair over there too - one night having 10 adults and 6 children!! We also went to the Workers Club twice for dinner and Tony made a brilliant Chilli Crab meal with the 16 mud crabs that Ben, Mike and Tony caught. It was to die for!!

And then today we had to pack up and come back home, just as we were all starting to relax. Maybe next year we'll go for 2 weeks so we can relax for a little bit longer!!