In February 2004 we headed off to Rainbow Beach for some R&R in our caravan…phew it was hot. We did all the touristy things around the area, including a 4WD tour along Rainbow Beach to the wreck of the Cherry Venture and saw the coloured sands. What a great day! I would recommend it to anyone visiting the area.
I was amazed to see a guy with a 4WD set up at the Cherry Venture wreck selling ice creams…talk about not wasting an opportunity. He would have done a roaring trade with all the 4WD tourist buses passing by.
The caravan park at Rainbow Beach was right on the water facing Tin Can Bay, and we fished nearly every day. Sadly, the fish were not at home and we never caught anything worth keeping. The sand flies however, made a meal of us most days.
After a week at Rainbow Beach we headed for Noosa, and booked into the Munna Point Caravan Park right on the banks of the Noosa River… what a top spot. We planned on staying there for one month but the heat drove us home after only about two weeks.
In that time we decided to put the house on the market, so we drove home without the van, listed the house, and drove back again to enjoy the rest of our holiday.
During our stay in Noosa we witnessed some spectacular storms, in fact we were on a boat cruise of the Noosa River when we were caught in a doozy. You could see it coming for ages, the sky was almost black, then it hit… we all ended up like drowned rats.
The skipper tried to shelter under a bridge, but to no avail as the storm was so ferocious the rain belted down from every angle.
By the time we’d returned from Noosa we’d decided that once the house sold we would like to buy a smaller home in an over 55’s village. This way we would have no home maintenance, and we’d be able to travel without asking friends and neighbours to water and mow while we were away enjoying ourselves.
Over the next couple of months we looked at many places between Hervey Bay and the Sunshine Coast…even as far south as Coffs Harbour, but always came back to the fact that we enjoyed living in Hervey Bay. There were a number of options in Hervey Bay, but, after considering them all, we were both keen on Torquay Waters Village at Torquay, a suburb of Hervey Bay, very small, not far from the beach, and very private.
There were new homes being built there and we decided that when we did sell we’d seriously look at buying there…the rest is history, as that’s where we now live.
