It’s 4 weeks today since we left Adelaide and we are in now in Tin Can Bay - we picked it off the map because it was about the right distance from Brisbane and we liked the sound of the name! It turns out to be a pretty little fishing and holiday village on a coastal inlet -Fraser Island is just off the coast nearby.
Our drive up from Brisbane took us past Buderim and Yandina which are well known for ginger and macadamia nut production. We stopped and did a tour of a ginger processing plant and had a look at a nut packing factory. Needless to say there is a bounty of products to purchase and taste. We had ginger and macadamia ice cream for lunch and today it was ginger spread on our breakfast bread. It rained most of the time we were driving, it stopped long enough for us to set up camp, then started again during the night but this morning there is blue sky, albeit with heavy clouds and more rain forecast.
We got up early to go to see the wild dolphin feeding which happens every morning - the alpha male of the pod came in for some fish, the girls don’t make an appearance at this time of the year and there is another younger male who usually comes for a feed but we didn’t see him this morning. The rangers stand in knee deep water and the humpback dolphins come in and are hand fed - standing on the edge of the wharf you can have a very close up and personal view.
This area is renowned for its wild life and fishing - we are off to try our luck!
Dolphins look great. Any interprative brochures? tee hee. Lena had a piece of ginger on her desk in Shanghai which had started to shoot and flower. We're both going to try to do it at home, but feel that Adelaide and Stockholm aren't sticky enough!
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