Rainbow Beach round 2

 Today has been a slow, relaxed day. Because of the timing of the buses between Rainbow Beach and Airlie Bay (our next stop), we had planned to spend a couple of night in a town half way between to break the journey up a little and make the timings more ideal. This meant we had a bus to catch at 4pm to Hervey Bay so couldn't really do much as we had no access to showers or somewhere to change etc.

We wandered over to the bakery for breakfast. I had the best pain au chocolate I've ever had (probably). We sat outside in the shade for a while just chatting and then wandered down to the beach. We'd been told that Rainbow beach got its name from the different coloured Sands,  and we figured since we were here we should probably have a look. We weren't expecting Rainbow coloured beaches and we would have been disappointed if we had, as the beach looked just like any other beach. It was a lovely beach but the sand was just normal sand coloured and all the same.

We paddled our feet and sat on the beach for a while until it got too hot. Then we wandered along the main street, looking in a few shops on the way, back to the hostel for a bit and sat in the common room using the WiFi. We then wandered out to the shops again and sat on a bench in the shade having a drink and watching the world go by before returning to the hostel for the last time to relax in some hammocks before getting our bags and getting the bus.

The bus was fairly empty. It took two hours to get to Hervey Bay. In the way we saw a huge kangaroo just hopping about at the side of the road. It was so close to the bus and it was all very exciting.

When we got off the bus at the last stop we were pleasantly surprised to find a free shuttle bus to the hostel. It wasn't that far away but it was really hot and would have been a nightmare with our backpacks. 5 of us piled in to the little mini bus and off we went.

Lauren and I are in a 3 bed deluxe room for an extra $2 a night but we are (currently) the only ones in it. We dumped our bags, checked to see if the world was still turning, and headed out to find some food. We were really surprised to open the door of the room to find it pitch black outside. We hadn't been in the room for that long as it was only half 7. The sun had been setting around half 8 where we were before.  We were also surprised that nearly all the food places shut at 8. It ended up being a choice between a pizza takeaway or a fish and chip shop. We went for fish and chips in the end. We both had cod and chips, which was pretty decent. Then we wandered back through the pitch black to our room.

Tomorrow we plan to go to the beach.