Market Day at Laurieton

Sunday 15^th October 2017

After a great nights sleep in very still waters we have pretty much caught up on our sleep deficit. It is another peaceful day on the river and it looks like we may enjoy some sunshine today.

It is market day in Laurieton, and we have organized to meet Rob and Marg at the jetty at 9am, to walk around to the park area near the VMR where the market tents are just visible from our anchorage.

A short walk from the jetty along the water front delivers us to the market area. It is much bigger than any of us expected, with lots of market stalls and a great variety of good quality produce, handicrafts, goods and food outlets. It is one of the best markets we have been to and is very well supported.

We both ended up buying quite a bit of stuff including fresh fruit, processed meats and some magic medicinal potions ?

Rob and Marg can't resist the egg and bacon rolls

To walk through the entire market area keeps us entertained for a few hours, before heading back down the main street for a well earned cup of coffee. The coffee shop was also quite busy, and whilst we were enjoying our brew, some friends of Rob and Marg walked in and joined us. They are also yachties and members of CCCA, but are on a road trip, on their way home to Tasmania from Townsville. They had been watching Run to Paradise on Marine Traffic, so knew that they were in town. By sheer chance, they managed to find the coffee shop we were in.

After coffee we headed back to our boats with a pan to meet for dinner at one of the local Chinese restaurants, The Jade Garden. 

Mid afternoon I took the jerry cans ashore in the dinghy to fill them up for the trip home. There is a service station about 4 blocks up from the waterfront, walking through the area where the market was this morning. Once ashore I loaded them on to my trolley and went up to fill them, haul them back to the dinghy and motor back to Mica.

We reconvened with Marg and Rob at 6.30pm, for a short walk to the Jade Garden. It turned out to be a very good Chinese meal, with generous serves that somehow we managed to devour. It was also BYO, so it was a cheap night out for a very good meal.

It looks like the decision has been made to leave here Tuesday morning when the wind is east and heading NE. The weather and seastate window is narrow to get back to Pittwater, so it looks like another overnighter.