After church we visited the monthly markets briefly. They are very small and were closing up by the time we got there. We had lunch at our favorite Brumby's store again and picked up some bread and milk and goodies for Joseph's birthday tomorrow.
There were queues of people all over town waiting for buses to pick them up. There was an enormous Holland American Liner in the harbor and it had deposited it's guests into Exmouth for the day. One man I talked to was less than enthusiastic about his cruise of a lifetime! He thought ten days would be his limit, but 20 days from Hong Kong to Melbourne was stretching it, a lot! He'd found it very hot in
Vietnam and other places they'd visited but the air-conditioning in the boat was freezing. Poor guy. Only ten or more days to go...
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| Dom scaring the seagulls with the Liner moored out in the harbour |
Arriving back at the van park, the fishing guys were cleaning their catch for the day - more spangled Emperor, tuna and mackerel (a whole one this time) and they borrowed my sharp as steel knife to try and saw through the fishes head for bar-b-queing. Apparently they'd heard it was good to eat the cheeks of the fish... They very kindly gave us some filleted mackerel to try and it wasn't too bad. I like this kind of fish, which you don't have to catch or clean!
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| Keen fisherman filleting their catch |
While we were cooking the fish on the BBQ, we met some young Japanese who were traveling around Australia, fruit picking. The young guy we spoke to had flown into the Gold Coast and was hopping around, down to Melbourne, across to Tasmania and now to Perth. He told me they'd been walking in Carnarvon, which is south of here, but it got too hot and they quit. I thought that was pretty impressive, to be walking around with backpacks etc, and that it would definitely have gotten too hot, but then we worked out that he meant working, not walking!
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Vicki
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