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Markets in Tropical Australia a magnet!
Markets in Tropical Australia are a way of life, with fresh home-grown produce providing inexpensive and healthy alternatives to supermarket offerings. Rusty’s in Cairns is like a magnet for residents and visitors alike. But as well as home-grown produce, many items of art and craft are produced and offered for sale,along with hand made soaps, silk scarves, akubra hats, plants, books, pearls and novelties.
Markets in Tropical Australia include the Cairns night market, which caters mainly for tourists as does Kuranda, while Yungaburra on the Tablelands holds a very successful monthly event, appealing mostly to locals.
Port Douglas markets are not to be missed!Held on Sunday mornings, the market-by-the-sea offers a plethora of stalls from hemp clothing and
coconut jewellery,
fortune telling, orchids or fresh juice to high quality hand-crafted toys, glass, cards, pottery, photographs or ocean paintings. Although the rule is that all items must be made by the stall holder, I think that the rules are bent a little in some cases with some stalls even offering items made in nearby Asian countries.
Ron and Anne Edwards
have set up their stall under the banyan tree for many years. Selling original acrylic and watercolour paintings and reproduction prints, they also have a huge array of Ron’s illustrated books on bushcraft, cooking, painting or children’s stories, printed by their own Ramskull Press, from which to choose.
Right on the water’s edge, artist
Cara Stevens
is to be found. The clean, crisp lines of her small paintings are evidence of strong design skills and her interest in ocean and forest subjects. These are paintings with a difference that you will treasure once they are on your walls!
Wander further along the inlet towards the stinger park, under the shady mango trees and your eye will be caught by
Robin Ayers
as she busily photographs and sketches portraits of children and couples.
The markets in Port Douglas are a pleasant and interesting morning’s entertainment…fresh fruit and veg…cool coconuts with their tops lopped off, the sweet milk ready to drink. Musicians…clothes…masseurs …delicious Asian food in little banana leaf parcels…toys…jewellery…the list goes on…Whatever you do…don’t miss these
markets in tropical Australia!
See Robin Ayers' page
Read more about Ron Edwards
See page about Cara Stevens
More about Karin Dorn's coconut jewellery
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