old camp ground at double island, rainbow beach side pre 90's

[crykies]

Hi am just wondering if anyone out here has any pics of the camp grounds at Double Island before they were washed away in the storms.

everyone with a boat used to camp there and was a very popular spot. we have alot of pictures of inskip point in the 80's but i have searched the net for a pic of this old camp ground and to this day i am unable to find any.

So if you have any of it would you be kind enough to share..

Thanks
Chris

[cancan]

If I get time I will have a look on the weekend. We spent a lot of time in the late 80's early 90's camping at double island although normally just camped on the beach or at the worst the wilderness park.

[crykies]

yeh i was only young so i can't remember what the camp ground was called we have alot of pictures of up there but none of the particular camp ground that we as children always wanted to stay at but dad always said it was far to busy there so we stayed at inskip and back then inskip was a different place to what it is these days.

if you could have a look that would be great.

[Nomad]

Crykies, Are you talking about the one that used to be on the Rainbow side of DI?

[crykies]

Yes thats the one. They all used to have boats there and was tucked in under the trees.

[Nomad]

I will ask the old man if he's got any. It thought it closed earlier than in the 90's..........

[crykies]

Yeh it would have been pre 90s 60,70 & 80s i would say.

[Nomad]

The old boy told me it first washed away, in a big way, in 74. That was when there were a sh#teload of fishing shacks up and down DI. When that cyclone in 74 rolled through and washed them away.

Teewah was subdivided and leased to those fisherman to try and keep the shacks of the beach. Joe Bielkiepeterson (sp), whilst he was in the Lands Dept. authorized the subdivision in a National Park without ministerial approval apparently in late 75 or early 76.

Back on thread, we think it closed down around 83 or 84.

You should give someone a call from the Gympie Historical Society or somewhere like that. They probably have the archives for Rainbow Beach. The southern side of DI has always been the unofficial northern end of the Sunny Coast and Rainbow was Gympie's Southern end. Off thread, my business partner told me today that his old man used to ride his pushie from Gympie to that camp at Rainbow to fish in the 60's................

[crykies]

well gee if it was 82, 83 that makes me about 5 or 6 at the time.

ok  thanks for the reply will have a look around we have a small amount of super 8 footage but no still pics.

[escape]

I can remember camping under the trees between the cutting and the rocks in the late 80's.We use to drive around towards the inside of the point to launch the boat.Best camping by a long way the old style of doing it.
escape

[tinkera]

Jee,s I didn,t think anyone on here would bring this up.We used to surf the point rainbow side back in the 70,s used to stay and sleep in the big red boat shed near the blow.The only people up there were the local hippies and the light house keeper would drop in to see what we were up to in his old WW2 Willies Jeep.The guy who ran the ferry to Frazer Is son inlaw used to drop us up the point on Friday nights and pick us up on Sunday.Used to have super 8 movies but they got lost moving over the years.Came to a end when they kicked everybody off crown land made everyone take down structures.Got back into going up again when we got our own 4x4.We surfed Rainbow side during a cyclone back in the 70,s You could pick up a wave at the point and ride it to the basin probably 1/2k plus.Oh them where the days.Tinkera.

[Nomad]

I had a prefect three foot Monday morning up there about 4 months ago. No one there and nearly the longest I have seen it. It's magical when it works but its probably the most fickle wave around here. 

[Campa]

My parents said may have a few from the late 70's early 80's. Looks like we'll have to get the slide projector out 

[Squalo]

I know someone who's lived on a 100 acre waterfront property on Lake Weyba since the early seventies - pretty sure he'll have some good photos of the north shore. He first took me up there in 1995 or so.

[Campa]

I had a quick look through mum & dads slides and found a few photos from Double Island / Rainbow. These are from around 1985ish we think. 

[Campa]

I had a quick look through Mum & Dads slides and found a few from Double Island / Rainbow. These are from around 1985'ish we think 

The first photo is on Rainbow Side, and the rest look like there from the Double Island beach side.
I'll keep looking and see what else we can find, there must be over 5000 slides  :'(

Bnk

[Kit_e_kat9]

Loving the old photos.  Thanks for posting them.

Kit_e

[crykies]

Wow thanks for the pics   Plenty of beach and sand dunes with grass back then as i remember   Ihavent had much luck yet