A Day at the Beach

The rain stuck around this morning, so we decided to have a somewhat lazy day. Christina found what turned out to be the largest farmers market in Queensland and we spent a couple hours wondering the booths and getting fresh veggies. We will have a full kitchen at our next hotel in Port Douglas, so she was stocking up for cooking dinners. We found all sorts of interesting things like banana leaf fruit (think artichoke about 4 times the size!).

After the market, we found a bus to take us to a beach about 10 miles North of Cairns. We're still getting used to the roads being backwards...especially confusing when every intersection is a roundabout. We ended up at a lovely stretch called "Trinity Beach" and stayed for a couple hours reading our books. The weather never completely cleared, but the rain stopped and it was quite pleasant. We found a little burger shack and discovered another quirk about Australia. Instead of french fries, everything is "chips" and apparently nobody down here uses ketchup. The closest we could find was "tomato sauce" and it was 10 cents a packet! We figured out it's a clever way to tax Americans :-).

We're just going to have a lazy evening tonight and get ready for our adventure tomorrow. We're taking a train up to the Karunda Rainforest to cuddle with koalas and visit an Aboriginal park...