Groover surprised me with this gem today as we flew back from Karratha – he’d heard it on a podcast:
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in fruit salad.
Nice.
So Karratha? I hear you ask. Of course! Where else would your lover take you for Valentine’s Day but a fairly ordinary motel in one of the fastest growing towns in the north west. It was hot. You forgot for a while as you listened to the hum and rattle of the massive air conditioning unit while drifting off to sleep…
But the moment you stepped out the door – bam – it hits you like a furnace.
We were both there for work and given Groover’s previous descriptions I anticipated the worst, but you know, I kinda liked it. I love the outback dirt, the spinifex, the red hot rocks of the Burrup.
We were cyclone watching and tonight it is still heading straight for Port Hedland. Maybe Sunday.
All we can do – like a pregnant woman – is wait.
And hope for the best.
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Glad to hear you are home safely. My Dad was in that area for the last few days too so we were on Cyclone Watch as well. (He’s home now)
Looking forward to Sat!
It’s true, tomatoes don’t go too well in fruit salad, but fruit fits in quite nicely in a regular garden salad. My salads are always mixed, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, cheese cubes, red onion, rockmelon, pineapple (fresh not canned), whatever’s in the fridge really. Tasty, and dinner and dessert in one.
That’s some pretty scenery, is it close to the town or did you have to drive out a way to see it?
I like that anecdote!
Hope the hurricane went right by you.
Tiff – I’ve escaped to Perth but my colleagues are sitting right in the path – due to hit late this weekend.
River – it’s about 20k from Karratha. Not too far.
I spent a day in Newman during a day for work at Mount Whaleback. I couldn’t believe all all the red dust everywhere. Very dramatic scenery on the flight over.
I loved the tomato thingy.
I spent my youth in Tom Price and we used to make an annual pilgrimage to Karatha to go to Super Kmart. We thought Kmart was the bees knees