IF ITS WEDNESDAY IT MUST BE THURSDAY ISLAND
Just off the tip of Cape York, at the far north of Queensland lies Thursday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands. The Torress Strait is the body of water between Australia and Papua New Guinea where the Pacific and Indian Oceans meet and where there are 133 islands, sandy cays and rocky outcrops of which 38 are inhabited. The population for the Torres Strait at the last census totalled 8,679 people. Thursday Island is a pleasant little place, home to Torres Strait Islanders, one of the indigenous people of Queensland. Not Aborigines, these are Melanesian people and related to their neighbors in Papua New Guinea, just to the north. This region, with lots of little islands, is sparsely inhabited has beautiful blue seas and very tropical vegetation. The original inhabitants lived, fished and traded with the Europeans around 1600 upon their first arrival to T.I. Thursday Island is the "capital" of the 20 islands in this area and was once the center of the local pearling industry.
Floating into Thursday Island at dawn...quite a sight.
The tenders take us to this little island
Such a beautiful and remote part of the world. Bubba checks out the Cultural Center. Not much to "do" in town...just sit back and enjoy the remoteness of T.I. Not really a big hit with my fellow cruisers.
I guess we could go back to the ship and play some board games- oh yes BORED GAMES. Right up Boca's.....
So back to the ship we went(very hot and humid on Thursday Island) for lunch. My darling "Pudge" said, "Hey Boca, this looks like this is right up your Serbian alley." Good job Pudge- yes I do like Pig. MMMMM
And we all had a good giggle out of elegant and low keyed Pat and the manicure she received that morning. Talk about Psychedelic- you go Patty with that Texas Orange. Hook'em!
We met a new set of Texans- Marianne and Leo Lawler- from Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Boca shard that she was putting together the annual DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS get together soon. The Lawlers liked the idea of getting together with the "good" folk-fellow Texans. They couldn't quite understand why BOCA was organizing the TEXAS get together???
As Boca explained, "Honey I am a TEXAS EX and Bubba is a TEXAS WANNABE". Nuff said.
Just off the tip of Cape York, at the far north of Queensland lies Thursday Island, in the Torres Strait Islands. The Torress Strait is the body of water between Australia and Papua New Guinea where the Pacific and Indian Oceans meet and where there are 133 islands, sandy cays and rocky outcrops of which 38 are inhabited. The population for the Torres Strait at the last census totalled 8,679 people. Thursday Island is a pleasant little place, home to Torres Strait Islanders, one of the indigenous people of Queensland. Not Aborigines, these are Melanesian people and related to their neighbors in Papua New Guinea, just to the north. This region, with lots of little islands, is sparsely inhabited has beautiful blue seas and very tropical vegetation. The original inhabitants lived, fished and traded with the Europeans around 1600 upon their first arrival to T.I. Thursday Island is the "capital" of the 20 islands in this area and was once the center of the local pearling industry.
Floating into Thursday Island at dawn...quite a sight.
The tenders take us to this little island
Such a beautiful and remote part of the world. Bubba checks out the Cultural Center. Not much to "do" in town...just sit back and enjoy the remoteness of T.I. Not really a big hit with my fellow cruisers.
I guess we could go back to the ship and play some board games- oh yes BORED GAMES. Right up Boca's.....
As Boca explained, "Honey I am a TEXAS EX and Bubba is a TEXAS WANNABE". Nuff said.
