Coolayla

Gympie lies about 40 minutes drive from the coast. The coastal area is known as the Cooloola Coast and encompasses Rainbow Beach, Cooloola Cove and Tin Can Bay.Tin Can Bay

Tin Can Bay is actually a taken from the Aboriginal word, Tuncanbar, which means Sea Cow (there once where an abundance of dugongs in the waterways).

Tin Can Bay is known as a fishing and boating paradise and also for the rare indo-pacific dolphins which frequent the area. Tin Can Bay is one of only three places in Australia where hand feeding of dolphins in their natural state is allowed.

Tin Can Bay is a very sheltered area just south east of Fraser Island. Fraser Island provides a degree of protection to the area from some of the storms that hit the east coast.

Tin Can Bay has only a small population, however the population quadruples during the peak holiday periods, particularly those with boats who are looking to do a spot of fishing. One of the feature attractions each year is the Sea Food Festival.

Rainbow Beach

To south of Tin Can Bay lies the busy seaside town of Rainbow Beach. Where Tin Can Bay is fairly quite and relaxed, Rainbow Beach is busy and full of tourists. Rainbow Beach has several claims to fame. First, it is named for the colored sand cliffs that line the beach. Rainbow Beach is also one of the access point for those visiting Fraser Island. Rainbow Beach is also novel as it is one of the few places in the world where the beach itself is actually a declared road. The beach road connects Rainbow Beach with the Noosa district on the Sunshine Coast.

Between Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach lies Cooloola Cove. A beatiful almost untouched stretch of coastline and beaches. Cooloola Cove is only now starting to grow as a popular residential area being only 30 minutes from Gympie, 10 minutes from Tin Can Bay and 20 minutes from Rainbow Beach – the best of all worlds.

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