September 2013 Vol 15 Issue 9
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Crowds Flock to Seafood Festival
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There’s a New Tour in Town By Michelle Gilmore As of last week, visitors can take advantage of one of the most experienced Fraser Island tour guides right here in Rainbow Beach, now starting a locally
operated tour. Sunrover Fraser Island 4x4 Tours offer a small personalised tour with local knowledge and stories. Mick Findlater has been a Rainbow Beach resident over 20
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years and first visited Fraser as a two year old. “We’d come up from Brisbane and used to stay at Happy Valley for most of our holidays, Dad loved to fish,” said Mick. Mick lives in Rainbow Beach with fiancé Laurel Abbey and children, Luxie-Leigh and Blake. His older son Tristan visits for the holidays. Mick and Laurel are looking forward to their wedding this month near the lookout. Mick identified a gap in the tourism market, “There is a need for the area to have our own tour, as the town has grown
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and most people are choosing to go to Fraser via Rainbow Beach.” With 17 years in the industry, from 4wd rental, organising self-drive tours, tag-along tours, tour guiding and most recently, tour co-ordinator at RB adventure company RBAC , he is launching his own service. “I want to be the first bus on Fraser Island and the last one off so customers get a full day of Fraser Island, and they can experience what a wonderful part of the world we live in.” Mick has accreditation as a tour guide, tour operator and his Certificate III. “I was trained by the best of the old school of Sid Melksham’s tour guides in the art of tour guiding whilst driving some of Australia’s
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