double island point

Have travelled this way large number of times. Always varies. Can normally travel most of the beach tfrom Noosa to Double Island easily about 4 hours after low tide. The section after Double Island to Rainbow another story. Been a number of times you cant get round the rocks even at dead low tide. When the beach is bad it is usually in Brownies Coast watch in Sundays paper in the Rainbow fishing report. When going to Frazer I usually give the Rangers at Rainbow a phone call although not so easy now as sthey have lots of recorded bits and you usually dont get to tallk to the rangers. Could always ring the number of the shop in the fishing report, they should be able to tell you.

When he says the rainbow beach side can't be passed cause of the rocks, don't even think about it. Get to the other side and go to the pub, its a great pastime of locals to gather on the slope behind the pubs to watch new $60k 4WD's get swamped then picked up and dumped on rocks and there ain't no way they can be saved - driver thinks, just a short distance .... saw a brand new patrol reduced to a few squashed tinnies overnight.

That said, i have gone thru and got to the other side to go up the surf club driveway thinking "where the hell were the rocks?"

Cause that's the danger, once you get a big tide the rocks get totally covered, but its soft sand, meters of it high, so when the tide is coming in and you are on the other side you see lots of sand and the heads of a few rocks and think, easy, just floor it, but then they sink and come out the size of a washing machine, really, get to the pub and check out the photos.

Hi,

As the other guys have said.

Also follow the link below. It will take you to the Rainbow Beach Hotel web site. They have a section you can select called The Rocks Report. It gives a tally of vehicles lost by make plus some recent pictures.

CLICK HERE

Once you come off the Leisha Track and are heading towards Rainbow Beach you are very dependant on tide height plus the conditions of the rocks named Mudlo Rocks. As the guys said, these are covered a lot of the time but can be exposed badly after rough weather and need to be treated with respect.

Always have a good look and remember if you have to double back even though it is a bit of a detour, you can go back to the Freshwater Track and get to Rainbow Beach that way.

Hope this helps a bit.

Cheers

Even though you can push on in the soft sand at high tide on the Southern side of Double Island Point, the Northern side (before the rocks that have been talked about here already) is often steep and very narrow at high tide and IMHO impassable.

Check the tide times and drive to them. Be flexible. That's the easiest and most enjoyable way.

Came through past the rocks at dead low tide last week and there wasn't much room. Bout an hour each side of low is all that's feasible.
John