Debs Last Week

Our resident backpacker is heading off to Sydney tomorrow for a few days before flying back to an island far far away next Thursday. We will miss her a lot as she has been with us a while and has slotted in here rather well.
So we have been trying to squeeze in a bit of sight seeing in between rain storms and cleaning the house for an open house tomorrow.
On Monday we went to the Sarina Sugar Shed, a miniature working sugar mill, which demonstrates how the sugar cane we are surrounded by in this fair city, is turned into sugar. They offer little tastes along the way. They also show us the distellery and offer little tastes of that too. (hic!) We both really enjoyed that.
On Tuesday, Debs and I went for a long walk at Harbour Beach, one of 32 beaches around our little city. As you can see it was very crowded.
Then we went to the lookout on the hill in North Mackay. Probably shuld have done this the first week, not the last, but there you are. Why I am not a tour guide. This shot is looking east.

And this shot is looking south. Our place is this way. Not far from the hill itself.

Tuesday night we took advantage of the not rainingness of the evening for an alfresco meal of tapas at the marina. Pity the air was so suffocatingly hot and humid. Food was tops though.

Wednesday we went to a western clothiers to check out the Akubra hats and RM Williams gear. Also the shop has not changed since it was set up in 1932 so its a bit like a trip back in time.

Today was another lunch at Eimeo and tonight we are having ravioli and napoli sauce with cheese, followed by golden syrup dumplings. Debs favourite meal as it is her last one with us.

Tomorow at 9am we are having another open house then we can relax a bit. One good thing about these open houses is you get all the house and yard work done up front, then have the weekend free!!

Wish us luck..

Bon Voyage Debs. Thanks for sharing our lives this last two months.