Back in Cairns, 3weeks off.

Back in Cairns-Staying at work mate Pierce's house for a week while I help  mate James find a house for his family, they are on there way up from Brisbane this week. 

Found a new local fruit & veges market called Rusty's Market, apparently it's been here for ages, right in the middle of Cairns. Crazy market, very cheap, huge variety and a lot of stalls, every weekend for 3days & all locally grown, such awesome food why would anyone go to the shops when this is here. 

Walking to my truck after leaving the markets I wasn't looking where I was walking, and it's a concrete foot path they are normally hard and flat, but this one was different, I managed to step perfectly into a post hole size pit of mud, up to my knee, I felt my jandal pop as it came off my foot in the bottom so I left it there. Conveniently there was a tap on the building right there to wash mud off. So I walked just down the road to 2nd hand shop to see if they had any jandals, they did, but all right foot ones, and I was missing a left, and who the hell sells odd single jandals anyway. 

The next day I saw a council worker at the hole, he was planting a tree, that's what the hole was for, the other tree must of died and the automatic sprinkler just made a mud hole. 

Got a lot of awesome fresh produce from Rusty's Market  and made some fresh ginger beer 

Ingredients:

Honey

Ginger 

Turmeric 

Himalayan salt 

Lemon 

Water

Kifir culture

Grate and boil ginger & turmeric, add more water & allow to cool to room temp, add honey& kifir, bottle, brew until most the honey has bin eatin by the kifir, more honey and longer brew time makes it slightly alcoholic, taste great on these hot days. 

Helped James find a house for his family, and filled it with second hand bargains off gumtree and 2nd hand shop, and Op shop- plates a bargin .20cents each, His Mrs and twin boys were happy when they arrived after a marathon drive up from Brisbane

Woah I'm sleeping on ground and a few coconuts just hit the ground out side my window, wouldn't want do be laying under neath it. My niece Isabella was in Rarotonga  with her family last year and she learnt not to sleep under coconut palm as if one falls from the tree and hits  you, you could get seriously injured. 

Babinda Boulders

Took James, Jeddah & the twin boys for a swim at Babinda Boulders, only 40mins drive away, this really is a beautiful part of the world, they didn't want to leave, wanted to camp the night there. Maybe next time. 

Swimming hole at Babinda. 

Perfect temperature water. 

Back to Rusty's Market on the weekend to make a supply box to take up to Thursday Island, at least I had a bit of warning for this trip so can buy some supplies and pack better  

Sunset from Pierce's house 

No luck fishing at Machans Beach, got a few coconuts though. 

Found this mad original star wars t-shirt. 

Sun set view from front of Jame's house. 

The view of the mountain  in White rock and my ute . 

Sunset at James new place.