market day...

Despite the rain, we went to the Yungaburra markets this morning, but there weren't many brave souls there, compared to the usual big crowds. We still enjoyed ourselves, of course, and as we're heading back to Townsville tomorrow for a few days, we bought a few things for friends and family.


One friend likes anything a bit unusual, so we'll be taking him purple potatoes and an ice cream bean (Those long things in the pic below are organically grown ice cream beans), and we also found locally grown garlic, mangoes, sweet potatoes etc etc...

Did you know that most of the garlic we buy in the supermarkets is not grown in Australia? And yet, apparently, the Australian garlic is very highly regarded by serious cooks.




I also bought plants for the garden (including a fabulous pineapple ginger plant and a peacock orchid -- both with gorgeous perfumes) and came home and planted them in the rain. The flowers in the bucket are heleconias -- a bit like ginger flowers.
So with ginger flowers and ice cream beans, it's a very different world up here in the Far North. :)

But the dogs are the same :) -- and I spotted some lovely ones, happy to be out for a splash in the rain, or prepared to wait faithfully behind a stall...