the corner store

In this free market, anyone can set up a little shop and have a go at on selling 2-minute noodles, packets of biscuits and cigarettes.  Kiosks come and go with the energy and cash flow of the vendor.  Most of the time they are set up as an excuse to sit down all day and chat with your mates.  Our closest kiosk offers comfortable road side seating next to the fuel drum. 

it takes two arms

To handle these whoppers. The biggest papaya of the season, home delivered to very satisfied customers.

A$2.50 each

A most satisfying and nutritious lunch.  Papaya, mango and banana, with a squirt of lime.  

falling barometric pressure (and 200th post!)

After a month long dry spell, the winds are swirling again, bringing action to the sky and rain to the parched garden.

This is my 200th post. Feels like I should be leaping around wrapped in bunting, but it just slipped by quietly.

the path to nowhere

The local authorities in their infinite wisdom, thought it a good idea to lay a concrete path along the fore dune. It starts at the hotel's fence and heads south to the village boundary, where it makes an abrupt stop inside a beach hut.  It is likely to stay this way for quite some time.  The longer the better as far as we are concerned, as we do not want it cutting off the beach in our neck of the coconuts.

private pool time

The hotel is closed for the season, however we have permission to use the pool at our leisure.  Private resort facilities - my kind of exclusivity, at the right price.  The panacea for hot low tide afternoons. Thanks Greg.