This is the sign we love to see at our local wholesale meat and seafood supplier, Suncoast: fresh Albacore tuna at AU$25 for 2 kilos – which translates on today’s exchange rate as just under US$20 for 4 pounds 6 and a 1/2 ounces.

They cut the fish into meal-size steaks, we bring it home and put most of it in the freezer, separated into packs of two pieces, which gives us five or six delicious meals for two over the following couple of weeks – until we see the sign again and re-stock. Not bad, when to get a decent piece of tuna in a local restaurant is probably going to cost – for one person – about what we pay for our two kilo supply.

Ah, who would want to live in the city again after that!

Image: sign at Suncoast, Tweed Heads, Australia: photo copyright Des Walsh 2008

Photo by Des Walsh copyright 2008: Seagulls at Rainbow Bay, Qld, Australia

Pelican Point, The Anchorage Islands, Tweed Heads, Australia: Copyright 2008 Des Walsh

Sometimes there are no pelicans at Pelican Point. Sometimes it’s a pelican picnic.

Portable Lettuce Farms: Sunday Markets, PCYC, Tweed Heads, Australia: Picture copyright Des Walsh 2008

It’s hard to beat lettuce picked fresh from your own garden. Growing it successfully is another thing altogether. So finding this man at the local market selling mini lettuce farms was a boon. He also sells bok choi farms so we have fresh greens for our stir-fry dinners.

It’s Thursday here now, but still Wednesday on the other side of the world.

Snapper Rocks famous break, Rainbow Bay, Qld, Australia, with a bunch of hopefuls at the beginning of school holidays

Photo Copyright Des Walsh 2008