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Red Canyon

Point of Interest

Contact

Kings Bore Road, Teewah Beach, Cooloola, Queensland.

parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/cooloola/culture.html

Description

Walk into the sand stone cliffs. Underlying parts of the windblown sandmasses of Fraser Island and Cooloola are coloured sands, the visible parts of older sands that have bound with clay into a weakly consolidated mass. The yellows, browns and reds are colours created by iron-rich minerals in the dune sands which, over thousands of years, stain the sand a complex array of tones and hues. Spectacular sculptures emerge where wind and rain erode the sandmass, exposing this soft older core.