...and Cairns Again

Had just three full days in Cairns. Not a terribly thrilling week, although we met a very interesting woman in one of the certified Aboriginal art shops. Becca and I were walking down the street and happened to stop and look in the shop, and the lady came out and started talking to us. Her name was Adina, and she was Bosnian. Came here quite a few years ago, and ended up working in this art shop. She was really interested in the art and artists, and she told us all about everything, and showed us some interesting plants that she had kicking around. We ended up talking with her for almost an hour. Didn't buy any art, though, although I'm sorely tempted by one painting she has in there. It's of an echidna and termite mounds, and it's printed on that pressed cotton that our friend Solomon did his paintings on. Sort of reminds me of those, in a way.