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RETURNING to Rainbow Beach where I started the Cooloola Great Walk two weeks ago, the tide was out today, so I followed the beach towards Double Island Point thirteen kilometres away.
Over the first ten kilometres, the beach passed under cliffs of sand over a hundred metres high, slowly getting eaten away by the waves when the tide comes in. The sand cliffs were spectacular colours from white, to bright yellow, to ochre red, to dirty grey. The sand was discoloured from hundreds of thousands of years of forests, swamps, sandblows and other processes in different areas created the spectacular layers of the history of this ancient sand mass. Some areas had come down in large land slides leaving steep crags and peaks of hardened sand.
Reaching the end of the sand cliffs, I continued around the sweeping beach to the more rounded hills of the remote Double Island Point where the sun went down to reveal a perfectly clear moonless night perfect for astrophotography.
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