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Coloured Sands
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Trish
September 15, 2022
Wander along Rainbow Beach and discover a natural ‘art gallery’, where wind and rain constantly re-sculpt cliffs of coloured sands. Over thousands of years, iron-rich minerals have stained the sand with a complex array of yellow, brown and red hues, while pure white sand has been leached of all nutrients.
Lyndall
December 8, 2021
Way back in the dreamtime there lived by the beach a beautiful, black maiden named Murrawar who fell in love with the Rainbow who came to visit her every evening in the sky. She would clap her hands and sing to this lovely Rainbow. One day Burwilla, a very bad man from a distant tribe, stole Murrawar for his slave wife. Often beating her cruelly and making her do all his work while he sat in the shade admiring his terrible killing boomerang. This boomerang was bigger than the biggest tree and full of evil spirits. One day Murrawar ran away and as she hurried along near the beach, which was then all flat, she looked back and saw Burwilla’s boomerang coming to kill her. Calling out for help she fell to the ground to frightened to run. Suddenly she heard a loud noise in the sky and saw her faithful Rainbow racing towards her across the sea. The wicked Burwilla attacked the brave Rainbow and they met with a roar like thunder. The boomerang died instantly, and the Rainbow shattered into many pieces, which fell to the beach forming the coloured sands cliffs which are still there to this day. Walk along Rainbow Beach, preferably at low tide, past rocks, caves and freshwater springs to the awesome coloured sands that tower 80 metres over the beach about two kilometres south of Rainbow Beach Surf Life Saving Club. The complex array of tones and hues of the sands exposed by erosion contain as many as 72 different colours. It is thought that the sands have been forming since the last ice age, as a result of iron oxide and leached vegetable dyes. Low tide is an ideal time to visit. Beach driving is permitted in the area although vehicle access permits are needed for some designated tracks and beaches. The colours will amaze.
Way back in the dreamtime there lived by the beach a beautiful, black maiden named Murrawar who fell in love with the Rainbow who came to visit her every evening in the sky. She would clap her hands and sing to this lovely Rainbow. One day Burwilla, a very bad man from a distant tribe, stole Murraw…
Hans Arwed
July 5, 2021
Huge sand mountains of coloured Sand...incredible to see.....
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5 Rainbow Shores Dr
Rainbow Beach, QLD