A day in Cairns

Day 2. Sunday 24^th Aug

Day at leisure in Cairns. Tossed up about going up to Kuranda on the skyrail and coming back down on the train, but basically couldn’t be bothered. We went up there when the boys were little.  This trip is all about doing as little as possible after all! Trevor wanted to have some lovely fresh seafood this trip and expected that it would be easy to find. Surprisingly, there’s not a fish co-op in town, well, within walking distance from our ‘home’. We knew we wanted to go to a supermarket and get a few things to take across to Fitzroy Island, so that was top of the list. We had a couple of tips of where to find seafood from the waitress at breakfast, the best one required a car to get to the industrial estate where the best seafood is sold from apparently. Anyway, that’s out. I suspected that perhaps this lady had trouble with maps when she couldn’t even find where we were on it! She told us about Rusty’s Markets that sold excellent fresh produce and possibly seafood. She also marked something else on the map that turned out to be a wild goose chase, not that great in 27 degree weather. So, we found a supermarket, went on a wild goose chase and then found Rusty’s. A bit flea market, lots of fresh fruit and veg, and one seafood stall/shop. Most of the variety was frozen, but there were fresh prawns, Moreton Bay bugs and oysters. We bought some bugs and prawns and with a crunchy baguette, lunch was sorted.

I think I’ve been bitten by the FNQ sleeping bug, had a lovely long nap after lunch, getting in the ‘zone’ for the island.