SATURDAY 23 MAY     AIRLIE BEACH

We had a fairly quiet, puddling about kind of day. I did mention going for a drive, but couldn’t come up with a must-do destination, given that neither of us was really keen on a big expedition.

We drove to the morning markets on the Esplanade and bought some fresh produce, direct from the farmers: oranges, mandarins, grapefruit, limes, spinach, capsicums, cucumbers, bananas, rock melon. All were cheaper by far than in the shops and obviously very fresh. $15 worth. We will have to get into the habit of looking out for markets like this. Nothing else there was really attractive to older travellers like us.

Got diesel – 72cpl. It is creeping up!

After lunch, we packed up the awning, loaded up the roof rack with the tables and chairs.

I read the Saturday paper for a while. John watched TV.

Tea was more of the pumpkin soup, left over dips, corn chips, salad. I do not think the pumpkin was a very good one for soup making – it seems to have little taste.