Home of Slightly Cracked Dreams

In an effort to distract myself I’m going to keep sharing the exciting things that happened on our holidays. Enjoy!

The Eumundi Markets are an icon of the Sunshine Coast. Now 30 years old and still going strong, it had been 15 years since I’d last been. Needless to say at the age of13, there wasn’t a lot I remembered from that visit, and taking people who had never been before was great to see it through a tourists eyes.

There was such a wide variety of stalls it was hard to know where to start. In the end we tried to see as much as we could. The kids complained of the heat and tiredness after a while (the 5 or so hours they’re open is hardly enough time to see everything) but perked up when we found the face painting lady who’s been there as long as anyone can remember. She did a fabulous job turning my girls into butterfly princesses.

The food smells were to die for, and we tried as many different foods as we could fit in.

I could have spent all day scouring the stalls and spending up big. Fortunately the visitors needed to move on and so my bank account was spared the devastation that would have surely followed. As it was the girls were treated by Aunty Bells to a fantastic book “I Wish My Mother Was An Octopus”

The markets are well worth a visit if you’re in the area. The variety of products on offer is amazing, and there isn’t much of the “$2 chinese junk” stalls you see at so many other markets these days (there is a bit, but not enough to be worried about - the vast majority of products are exellent quality).