Rainbow beach is famous for its fantastic beaches and of course the RainBow-Beach-Car-Wash-Scoreboard. The locals keep a scoreboard of cars that couldn't outrun the incoming tide or got bogged. Judging by the numbers, 2002 proved a very productive year for the local scrap yards and disastrous for tourists, about 30 cars got washed. This year promises to be good too, the count is up to 12. It's quite nasty really, the 11 km beach ends with a very steep rock wall several tens of meters high. When the tide comes in, there is nowhere to go for the car, and it will drown... Hence the Rainbow Beach car wash.
We decide to test our 'Suzi' and make a run down the beach, it's really cool and I tempt fate -encouraged by Emma- by driving through the waves and have water splash up a few meters. The next day we decide to drive on the beach at InSkip Point a little less perilous beach where the car can actually dodge the incoming tide. A very nice little weekend in southern Queensland.
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