Green ant tea has bite
DID Star Fleet beam a few thousand people here?
Our city without strangers is near full, I even saw a Strand Palm pack its coconuts and move to Rowes Bay.
Great to see for all our local businesses, and of course the mosquitoes … new blood, Joking. Yes we have a rugby game of interstellar proportions, but we also have us! North Queenslanders are a most welcoming lot, some even feel so close to you they’ll borrow your car, but overall the welcome is unlike any other and we have so much to offer. Magnificence in our own back yard you might say, take mine for instance, half a dozen scrub turkeys and what's left of my new grass!
I offered to let Anastacia Alphabet take them for her tunnel under the Brissy river, these birds would have it dug in a week and a half. But more so our NQ backyard as a whole (not a ‘hole’ like mine) from bush to beaches, sand, sea and silliness.
We went to the Kurrimine Beach Fishing classic on the weekend, so much fun and we didn’t even go out to sea! The weather was fresh to frightening and I think the fish bolted to Noumea. Some brave souls did venture out, and I’m told they needed seasick wheely bins. There were few fish caught, I don’t know how they finally had enough, in fact rumour has it at the weigh in, the fish that won had a bar code on it…..!
Now I am joking.
But it is indeed paradise and the beach party superb. Due to the rough weather we decided to drive to the Nerada Tea rooms, absolutely marvellous. With tree kangaroos outside the cafe, a plantation to walk through, and more tea than you could poke a potty at, we loved it.
The $20 taster was a ripper, four pots of different tea for both of us to try, and with the added bonus of visiting nearly every second tree on the way home. I was worse than my dog Bing. To be honest, while I’m typing to you, slowly, I’m having a little tea party of Royal Devonshire with vanilla, very nice.
After seeing the tree kangaroo, I wondered if there was TKP Tea, tree kangarpoo tea. Maybe a sort of Oolong Tea, more so Poolong eh. On that subject, many like Green tea, well how about Green Ant Tea, they make it by dropping the green ant nest into a billy, giving the poor little buggers a hot spa, and apparently its beautiful, not that beautiful for the Green Ants of course. Though it can be somewhat dangerous, because after a few cups your climbing trees and biting people.
The adventure continued on the journey home when I decided to stop at the old cassowary Tea rooms, now the Vista Hinchinbrook, and Vista it certainly is. I’ve always believed Hinchinbrook is one of the most beautiful isles in the world, and the delta stunning.
Well you can enjoy your cuppa while looking at this marvellous sight. Congratulations to Ian, Trish and the family for bringing back to life this glorious place in Paradise.
What a weekend, enjoy watching the Haka at the rugby, I’ll be watching the Barker, my Bing will go off at the fireworks I’m sure.
Happy days to all, and welcome home. Ooroo.