Midnight saturday night mat insisted he was going to go and spend Sunday up at the beach, just relaxing. He made me check the tides (since google searching is still beyond him unless it involves the words 4wd or boobs) and come Sunday I thought it would have just been another drunkenly rant of his.

But he was up early, made a packed lunch and was ready to go before 9.30am, which for Mat is impressive. Figuring he was serious I packed up the dog bowl for Turbo (even he was invited) threw in more water and snacks for him and off we went.

The weather was amazing! Clear skies, aqua water and golden sand, it was fantastic. We had caught the barge over to double island point and proceeded to drive along the beach right up to the point. There we stopped for lunch, turbo had a swim (and ran away at one point to play with other dogs) and generally sat on the beach and relaxed.

After a few hours we drove into rainbow beach and caught up with a friend we hadn’t seen in a while as he had moved up there for some work as a pilot.

He showed us a spot we had never seen, it brought us to the top of one of the dunes. We had such a clear view over the hinterland in one direction, and the ocean in the other. It was called the blow hole, as it was a flat spot in the dunes where the wind blew directly through. It was all sand and looked like something you would see out of a coca-cola ad with everyone sandboarding down the dunes. I will have to try that one day. I got some great shots with my camera which I will have to upload to flickr tonight.

Finally it was time for us to head home. We had left it a bit late since it was only a few hours until high tide. We decided to take the road way home which meant going through gympie aka 2 hours of boring road opposed to 1 hour gorgeous beach. We finally arrived home at 7pm, eating a feral take away dinner and eventually falling asleep on the couch.

For a treat, here is a pic of my view of rainbow beach, taken with the iPhone (side note – I had reception the entire length if the beach – I never used to get reception there at all!)

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