Today we had to do a big shop at Woolworths to top up our supplies. As we don't have a car we decided we would share a maxi cab with Rod & Lee to bring all of our purchases back to the boats.
Belinda and Dean arrived just after 11 am, and our next priority was to go and vote. All of the interstate voting was at the Commonwealth Centre a fair walk from the marina. When we found it there was a huge crowd waiting to cast their vote and we waited for about an hour before we got our chance to vote. Cody was pretty unimpressed with the boredom of it all.
When we finally completed our voting we walked back through town to find somewhere to have lunch. We ended up at a pub on the river bank called Monsoons, where the food turned out to be surprisingly good. The calamari was right up there with the best we have had on our trip so far.
Calamari at Monsoons
To walk off lunch we walked down along the Strand (a beachfront area near the marina which goes for kms and has great parks, restaurants and importantly for Cody, a water park). In no time Cody had his shirt off and was running around the water park with all of the other kids).
Cody on the water gun
Cody getting seriously wet at the water park
We decided we would have a seafood feast on Mica for dinner, so we headed off in search of a seafood retailer, not as easy as it sounds. Finally we ended up at a shop called “Mr Mud Crab” about 2.5 km from our marina. By the time we had purchased our selection ( oysters, prawns, mud crabs and some fish), we ended up with a polystyrene container filled with ice and seafood. The only problem was that we had to carry it back to the boat. Rod & I took turns to lug the package home.
The subsequent dinner made it all worthwhile. In between which we had the occasional look at the TV to see how the election results were panning out.
First course of our seafood extravaganza
Belinda attacking the next course
Michelle with the improvised claw cracker
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