Rainbow Beach back in the day!

Submitted: Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:55
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i come from a professional fishing family.
when i was a kid, we used to go to rainbow beach or
mudlow as my dad used to call it for the mullet season.
we had an old blitz truck because 4wd vehicles were pretty
much only had by forestry departments etc back in the 60's.
i dont remember much about the road between gympie and the
rainbow beach trunoff but i do remember the road/track out to
rainbow ! barely a track even, the blitz had to climb over huge
tree roots etc ! once out there, hardly anything there, not even a shop!
sometimes a man in a little caravan selling iceblocks.
around the beach towards double island point were shacks including
chapmans shack. up in the dunes we found an old shack completely
covered with sand....probably still there somewhere. that was near
the old blow, which was the only way to get from 1 side to the other!
if you couldnt get up that thing, then you were stayin where you were lol.
on the western side of the lighthouse we found old army relics !
we used to drink the water from the fresh water lagoon, it was beautiful!
never saw anyone else up there other than other fishing crews !
oh the good old days!!!!
we went up to rainbow on the aussie weekend............eh so sad to see it!!
still, im greatful that i knew the place in its pristine glory !
cheers pips
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