I went with Sue today to get scallops and view a wombat. We succeeded in one of these tasks, and failed in the other.

The above is the menu at the fish and chip store we went to today. What would you buy?

Potato scallops are fried battered potato slices. Think of them as very big chips. The ones we bought today had loads of batter on them, and I probably prefer them with less. But then I hadn’t had one in decades!

These are an Australian staple, and usually bought with fish and chips. I remember as a kid eating vast quantities of this sort of food – it was my favourite! – but it had been years since I had any.

These were suspiciously large for fish cocktails, and eating two of them was a challenge. We ate this at Blackbutt, and as you can see it was sunny and warm.

The above fire pit surrounded by stools is in the picnic area where we ate. I took this photo because it gave me a flashback to when I was a young boy and I attended a birthday party for Magda R (or Giovanna S?) at this very location. A man cooked sausages on the fire pit while us kids (I would have been under 10) sat and waited. I barely knew her and must have wondered why I was even invited but I suspect it had something to do with her parents and mine going to the same church.

Our second task – to see a wombat – didn’t succeed because the beast was resting in its house. It was the last item on my Australian bingo card that I had a reasonable chance to cross off, so that was a shame. I’ll save that as a goal for next time 🙂