Yesterday my house mates (Jennifer from Texas and Chuey from Minnesota) and I went into downtown Cairns. Our favorite part was Rusty's market, which is kind of a giant farmer's market that runs Friday to Sunday 6-6. There were all kinda of fruit and fun jewelry and the whole place smelled like fresh veggies. We also took a walk on the Esplanade which is this large boardwalk area along the water. There's an area where they have closed in water to create a "lagoon", in reality it's a giant pool that sits right on the ocean, or what would have been an ocean if it hadn't been low tide. There were outdoors stalls and some band performing all kinds a music, everything from the Police to Mumford and Sons to Bruno Mars. The coolest part was, when we started looking in the mudflats that the water left behind, we realized that any movement we saw was a crab. There were thousands of them! There was also a very large mud skipper who was rather immobile and we were pretty amazed that he hadn't picked up by the gulls. It was a decent intro to the city. When we came home we got carried away and began a collage of pictures we liked from magazines and brochures on one wall in our house.
Today we took the bus up to Trinity Beach. It was cloudy but still pretty warm an we found a walk that left of each side of the beach to lead us to lookout points and other cool views. It was nice to just lay on the beach for about 4 hours. It was a pretty lovely day until the wind picked up and we got sand stuck all over all of our body, there was even sand when I blew my nose. After an insane bus ride back we got pizza at the local pizza place, I'm a fan.
Just a couple of things that are different here:
-There are no stop signs, just roundabouts, therefore you have to run across the road and hope that no lunatic driver decides to run you down, as a result we have been stuck across the street from where we were trying to go for quite a while.
-It's tomato sauce (toe-mah-toe) not ketchup
-Jam, not jelly
-Apparently I was Australian when I was little, Ham & Jam sandwiches are very popular
The lookout at Trinity Beach.
The Esplanade in downtown Cairns.
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