We drove down early in the morning to go to the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. We saw the Lockhart River Dancers and some musicians.

We stayed the night at Il Palazzo. Varsha and Laxmi did lots of swimming in the pool which was heated and lovely.

We went to Rusty’s for breakfast and had some amazing Samoan food. There was a giant pumpkin.

Varsha and Laxmi made masks and printed bandanas and stencils at the kids art program at CIAF until it was time to say goodbye to Cath and Erica and go home.

We drove to the Highlander and met Mark and my old friend Oliver and his wife Narumi and his two daughters Mayu and Nanaka. They live near Osaka. They came to stay overnight.