Driving to Inskip Point from Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach is much nicer than Tin Can Bay so stay there if you can if you think you can handle the flies (I’m a right wimp when it comes to things biting me as they seem to love my blood which I’m quite keen to keep!) Rainbow Waters is a great place to stay as you can have fantastic camp fires and feel as though you have space around you. If you like fishing, there is a ramp right next to the camp site to get your all important tinny into the sea, otherwise you can hire a boat quite easily around here.

A good drive is on the way up to where the barges cross to Fraser Island. It’s called Inskip Point and you can get a permit to camp there. It gets to a point where you have the sea on one side of you and a small estuary to the other side. If you go by 4x4, you can drive along the beach and actually get down to Rainbow Beach following the coastline, with a nice view of Fraser Island in the distance.

One tip though is, when driving up to Rainbow Beach, DO NOT take any notice of your GPS system as it likes to send you through Cooloola Way which is a basic 4x4 track through the Great Sandy National Park but when we got sent this way we had our caravan in tow and in some places it was very, very scary! The ranger told us we were very lucky as they had even closed the footpaths through there as the conditions were really bad. So you pay for an nice expensive gadget to tell you where to go but you just have to ignore it, as I know of another couple it sent through the same route.