Rainbow Beach and Tin Can Bay continued

So how can you really finish off your adrenalin rush of a morning skydiving? Let me tell you, the BEach of course. Thats the main thing to do in the summer here, it keeps you cool and its fun, its a workout if you play in the water, it wears you out and we usually pack our own food-especially on public holidays when everything is closed so you get good food in your belly. Usually lots of fresh tropical fruit and other things that wont spoil in the heat and humidity. 

So we headed down to Rainbow beach, here is the entrance for 4 wheel drive vehicles to drive the beach, which is a huge draw and many people camp this way. We have yet to experience it but maybe someday (we can't do everything right, just like we wont see all of the south pacific, or even all of Australia)....

 I found these two hits interesting. I dont know if you can tell ( just realized my pics are too small) but the one on the left is a massage hut. While the thought is nice, I wouldnt want to be doing that in that climate, maybe when its not the middle of the summer. And the ice cream hut. So very interesting to me, not sure why

 Giving Erik his first body boarding lessons. This child is fish and I am sure he will go into withdrawals when he realizes that not everywhere in the world has pools and beaches close, free, and easy to get too. However that will not stop us from taking it all in when we can.

 Then we went fishing. Erik has been dieing to go. We went to a sporting store that sold bait and Lindsay asked where the bait was and the cashier replied with an answer that neither Lindsay nor I could decipher with his thick Aussie accent (they vary a bit here, just as the accent varies in the states). We asked him to repeat himself and I got it that time but Lindsay still didnt. I directed us to the proper place we paid for our worms and left. We couldn't help but bust a gut as we got out of earshot. They man has said 'beach worms' but it sounded like a mottled 'beachwams' spoken quickly. Now we joke often about the beach wams up in rainbow beach. And long those suckers were...

 that was only part of one.

 The next  morning we were heading out and the one and only thing I was dieing to do up in Tin Can Bay was feed the wild dolphins. Its free other than you pay for your fish that you give them. They keep the dolphins wild by only giving them so many fish (up to only 10 percent of their daily diet). There is a pod of dolphins that come in regularly but each day they dont know which ones will come or how many. This day there were two...the alpha male and his female mate.

 The food

 Erik giving it a go

 And myself. It was soooooo cool! We couldn't touch the dolphins as they were wild but it was cool to be near them and know that through the years they had trusted these volunteers enough to come get a morning snack.

Mission accomplished. Christmas Holiday was splendidly awesome that will forever go down in our family's history books and one that may never be beaten. I am ok with that-it will long be cherished!