July 17th-Brandon's B-day

We would spend our final day in Cairns celebrating Brandon’s Birthday. Yet another great day in the Land of Oz, today was all about being spoiled. First, we sat down at a local café for a late breakfast. We had a great meal including home made falafel, gourmet focaccia sandwich, and delicious thick milkshakes. It was such a nice treat to eat out since we had been self catering and eating pretty simply for the last 3 months. In the afternoon we went to the movies and laughed our asses off at Sasha Cohen’s Bruno. We had scoped out some nice places to eat and agreed to sit down at a nice restaurant specializing in upscale aboriginal/bush food, Ochre. With only a couple days left in the country, it was time for us to taste the local delicacies which we had yet to try. Our meal started with an Australian Antipasto plate. This tasting platter was made up of: Dukka crusted Kangaroo, Emu paté, Crocodile stuffed wontons, pickled beat with Kingfish, and rich goat cheese. The plate included many traditional bush spices and ingredients and all were incredibly delicious. For our main course we went with the night’s special of Wallaby shank with cardamom spiced potato and traditional bush salsa. We were stuffed and satisfied. The meal was awesome, a true taste of fine Australian tucker. Our night ended with a lovely stroll back to our accommodation. We packed up our things and prepared to leave in a few hours to catch our early morning flight to the Coolangatta coast.