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| Way back in dream-time there lived on the banks of the Noosa River a beautiful black maiden named Murrawar, who fell in love with the Rainbow who came to visit her every evening in the sky. She would clap her hands and sing to this lovely rainbow. One day Burwilla, a bad man from a distant tribe, stole Murrawar for his slave wife, often beating her cruelly and making her do all his work while he sat in the shade admiring his terrible killing boomerang. This boomerang was bigger than the biggest tree and full of evil spirits. One day Murrawar ran away and as she hurried along near the beach, which was then all flat, she looked back and saw Burwilla's boomerang coming to kill her Calling out for help she fell to the ground too frightened to run. Suddenly she heard a loud noise in the sky and saw her faithful Rainbow racing towards her across the sea. The wicked Boomerang attacked the brave Rainbow and they met with a roar like thunder, killing the Boomerang instantly and shattering the rainbow into many small pieces. Alas, the poor sick and shattered Rainbow lay on the beach to die, and is still here with all its colours forming the hills along the beach. |  Original oil painting by © Jim Tyrie, Eumundi |
| Camping at the Coloured Sands, North Shore.
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