Day 88: Rest day - A happy ride around Australia (second attempt) - CycleBlaze

May 9, 2021

Day 88: Rest day

This morning we had a lovely breakfast at Espresso and Co cafe. 

Then we went to Cairns Rusty's Markets. It was mostly filled with fresh produce.

Left to right: guava, persimmon, rambutan, longan and mangosteen.
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Rodney PrestonYum, Mangosteen!
You should eat them as often as you can!!!
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Vince McCarthyI will try my best. I probably won't get them again until Darwin.
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Yellow melons, rock melon and pineapples, all $1 each.
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This guy was using a very sharp meat cleaver to open the coconuts.
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$3.50 bought me a taste of the tropics.
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Rodney PrestonSounds like a tropical feast!!
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We also bought bananas, passionfruit, watermelon, pineapple and dried mango.

Plus some homemade ginger cookies and gingerbeer.

We then went to the Cairns Botanical Gardens.
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Cacao fruit. This is where chocolate comes from.
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Cacao tree.

Showy Asian grapes
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Showy Asian grapes.

A Zamia
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Zamia

The gardens has a conservatory which also included some butterflies.

Varied eggfly
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Varied eggfly.

Orange lacewing
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Orange lacewing.

Orange lacewing side view.
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Monarch butterfly
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Monarch butterfly.

Orchard swallowtail butterfly
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Orchard swallowtail butterfly.

We also saw an Ulysses butterfly in the open section of the gardens, and again at our hotel garden in Palm Cove. 

I spent the afternoon learning how to use Spotify. It's a music subscription app. 

I expect to be without phone reception often so this app allows me to download lots of music for $12/month.

This pic is taken from a fishing jetty, looking back towards Palm Cove.
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Rodney PrestonLooks so nice up there! 👍😎
Getting to zero down here 😳🥶❄️
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Rodney PrestonI bet Serena enjoyed the non-Canberra weather!! 😎
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Vince McCarthySerena and I enjoyed the warmth.

I'm not sure I'll cope when I have to endure a Canberra winter again.
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For dinner we got Thai take away from the same place we had dinner on Friday night. 

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