Many Murals Around Town!
Bowen is Qld's oldest town & its main crops are tomatoes, followed by capsicums & it's famous mangoes! When Bowen was first settled the farmers planted orange orchards, but in the early years they were wiped out by a cyclone, so as to keep their losses to a minimum, they needed to plant quick growing crops & tomatoes & capsicums were the perfect choice!
The elements set the the scene for Bowen's future!
Tomato Pickers
Bowen was certainly worth the week we spent there, we did plan on a longer stay, but the work front was not happening, even though i had the chance of starting in a nursing home around the corner. The building trade was struggling, the story was the same from builders we spoke too, plenty of work coming up but nothing at the present!! Crop picking was also very slow!
I think i will stuff some!.... Now that sounds good!
In that week, Bowen made news headlines!
Some vengeful idiot, decided to put pesticide in to the watering system of one of the biggest tomato seedling growers in Australia, therefore killing something like about 11 million seedlings! Apparently it is not the first time! The price of tomatoes is set to rise now in the near future, because of the shortage!
All thanks a total wanker!......... Poor Farmers!!
The other news was 5 Asians went for a walk around Coral Bay & 1 went missing the search rescue helicopter hovered around all that arvo & then back up again at first light......We heard on the radio the next day that they had found his body floating in the ocean!
Coral Bay is a picture! So much coral lining the beach, even if it is dead & not that colourful.
To have Great Barrier Reef Coral under foot!........Was very special to us & a sight to beheld!!
Coral Bay is also a nudie beach!..........Now that would be uncomfortable!Now to the famous Mango....... Trees here, i have never seen so many in all my life, they are incredible & already laden with perfect shaped baby mangoes!!!
To me there is no other mango like a
Bowen Mango!
Every Christmas dad would buy me my very own box of Bowen Mangoes as an extra special prezzie!!!
That i will never forget & also the way we peeled them back in the old days, there was none of this cutting in to fancy chunks & staying clean, we just ripped the skin off & got stuck into that unforgettable yummy tasting flesh!.........Wow what a mess!
Time now to say goodbye to Beautiful Bowen & to our new friends Steve & Lyn!
Townsville here we come, let's hope this time we can both pick up some work in unison?......Fingers Crossed!
Shopping in Bowen.......Or should i say lack of it!
Well it's not happening there yet, the shops shut at 12 midday on Saturday & they don't re-open till Monday morning, & the variety is just not up to my westfield standards! That is not a bad thing, it is just not my thing!!
I much preferred Airlee for my shopping day out fix!!
Cheers till next time!
Just thought I would say hi. Kevin and Trish left for Bali last week. Nothing much else is happening around here. Same old same old. Mum & dad are ok. Beth sprained her ankle at soccer yesterday. The garden is doing great, spuds are going mad, plenty of brussells sprouts and we have given away most of our broccoli (I tell mum not to buy it and what does she do? The neighbours think it's great.) Some turd tried ripping off the letterbox last week. Busted it up a bit but I fixed that I think the spikes I put in the bottom of it helped a bit. he had trouble getting a good grip in it. That's about it. I'll catch you later.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Warren
Hi Warren, great to hear from you!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's also good to know someone is actually reading this blog!!!
Glad to know you are all well, apart from poor Beth!....She is young though & hopefully will recover quickly!
Wow what i would give for your fresh vegies!!!!....Lucky neighbours!!
Bloody Vandals! What a pain they are, i suppose it was good though they left the laundry alone this time!
We are both well, Mark has a heap of work & well i cant get a job, most places want someone for longer than 6 weeks!!
We cant wait to get up to Cape York!...Hope it is as good as we are anticipating!
Anyway!.....Till next time, bye for now,
Sharon & Mark x
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeletejust thought I would let you know that mum scalded her foot eight days ago. She didn't tell me until the day before yesterday. anyway, she did it while soaking her feet by pouring boiling water from the kettle into the basin and got her foot. came up in a nasty blister which popped while she was in the shower yesterday. it looked ok then but looks infected now. took her to the doctors and he referred her to the hospital. we went there and they have made arrangements to treat her at home with an antibiotic drip using a catheter in her arm. they also gave her a walking frame to help her get around. she looks like a real old lady now!! she should be ok in a few days. oh, by the way I was speaking to Beazo a while back and he said he would have a look at your blog.
See ya round
Warren
Hi Sharon
ReplyDeleteJust checked in to have a look at your webb page, it looks great. Nice to see all the pics and to hear you are enjoying it all.
Safe travelling keep it all coming.
bye for now
Colleen C
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