SATURDAY 8 AUGUST     SEISIA

After breakfast, we drove into Bamaga to stock up on supplies. I spent $85 on groceries, but at the prices up here that was not an enormous shop! Very ordinary quality wine casks cost well over $20 – we did not buy any! Someone is making a big profit, on alcohol, even allowing for transport costs! Perhaps the price is also intended to be a deterrent to purchase by the locals.

The supermarket food stocks are such unhealthy foods. All white flour and sugary stuff, particularly the breakfast cereals. No muesli up here! Very little in the way of fresh fruit or vegies. I guess they have to sell what the locals demand, but the shops say a lot about the lifestyle and diet.

After lunch, relaxed. I read and wrote. John tried a little fishing.

The unimog moved out this morning – yippee! In the afternoon, a couple moved into that area. They are a vast improvement as camp neighbours! They come from coastal  NSW, south of Sydney; he is a school principal, on leave.

Later in the day, R and Portia arrived back. They had to camp a bit further away, this time.

Tea was sausages, eggs and toast.