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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Reply By: pips - Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 14:18

Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 14:18
Sorry, i did say there was no shop.....there could have been
a shop but i dont remember it, maybe they didnt sell icecreams,
i was just a little kid !
i do remember the sand mining though, the big pipe that
used to spew black sand all over the beach!
i think the only barge over to Fraser was owned
by the Elmer family!
pips :)
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Reply By: Trevor R (QLD) - Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 15:06

Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 15:06
Yeah, I too remember Double Island when there was three crossings from north to south (east to west if you want to call it that???) none of which had boards to help you through. The third crossing (closest to lighthouse) was a massive up then a huge down and up before the drop onto the beach out the other side. So many diesels just couldn't get the momentum to get down and up the middle part......they used to really get the beeps when our old beach buggy zoomed past with a little toot from the tinny b/buggy horn. Good memories. (The memories of pushing that old heap a $hit when it got bogged are not so fond LOL!!!)

Cheers Trevor.

PS circa 1978 about.
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Follow Up By: pips - Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:47

Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:47
yeah trev, that third crossing that you speak of, closest to the lighthouse was what we used to call "the blow". when we first started going up to double island that was the only track over. the other 2 came later on when people started buying 4wds :) am i showing my age???
pips
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Reply By: Shawsie (Bris) - Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:58

Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:58
Was up there at Rainbow beach on our way back from Fraser on Sunday. It's still a beautiful beach despite your memories, but we had to leg it as we were 1hr from high tide and we only just made the Leisha Track onto Teewah Beach :o) Had to pull a Patrol ute (I think) off the beach as they were stuck good'n'proper and had 35psi in their tyres. Dropped em to 20 and pulled them out - good deed done LOL.
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Reply By: wazzaaaa - Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 20:49

Friday, Feb 02, 2007 at 20:49
In 1981 on my honey moon I went up teewah beach through double island point (there was a camping area at the point then) to frazer island for the first time, the done thing seemed to be for campers to bury their rubbish in the dunes. When ever there was sand erosion the litter on the beach was amazing. How things have changed, first the rangers left little trailers for rubbish that they used to take to the dump themselves , now industrial bins even are just enough. I read a post where they cleaned up frazer on the weekend how great is that! I am not worthy as I feel as though I was one of the litters of 1981 and feel ashamed for doing what was the done thing then. A couple of years back while staying at Indian head the track had eroded the side bank a bit and we noticed some rubbish sticking out of the bank and while a square milk bottle took my eye on further digging we found it was like a time capsule from the 1960s. I miss the old times in these places but I am pleased people try to look after these treasures as far as litter is concerned
Wazzaaaa
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Reply By: pips - Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:59

Saturday, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:59
yep wazzza
remember it well lol
we buried EVERYTHING!
off up the track with shovel and toilet paper LOL
as teenagers we used to go up to double island around the time
they put in the toilet block just down from chapmans shack.
we used to head up to rainbow shops in the arvo and come back to
camp in the dark, tide permiting. the site from rainbow looking around the
beach to our camp. i remember it looking like a city around there
with all the camp lights on!
good times were had lol
wild dogs were a bit of a problem back then too, they used to break
into our gazebo at night and take all the food ! i have photos of them.
cheers pips.
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