In
Krissy's blog I read that in
Carnarvon, 10 hours north of Perth,
Bananas fell off the trees due to the heat, 47.8 °C! In '95 we visited Munro's Plantation. I couldn´t imagine running around with a machete chopping down bananas (those that hadn´t fallen yet) in that heat!
Pfff.... way too hot!
On googling a bit I found a
great article on the plantation. Bruce Munro originally was a motor mechanic, strange to come from there to bananas, but good thing he did so. `Cause he started off with the thought of opening the plantation up for tourists. And it was really interesting! I don´t remember though, that there was a banana-café. But maybe that came later.
The article also describes how business is done there - way different from how it is done here and I prefer the Aussie way. Here people are rivals in business. Over there they are colleagues and help each other, we made the experience not only once. And in this article is another example to be found.
Munro helped a colleague, Bryan Carvill, to establish his own banana business. The bananas in Carnarvon, or the Gascoyne Area, are smaller than those from Queensland (not obvious for me those days), but Carvills wife came up with the "the smaller is better marketing concept" and they are now successfull with "small lunchbox bananas". They are even getting premium prices for their fruit in the Perth market! What a story!
Darn.
If I had enough money and
if it wasn´t so terribly dry and hot, I´d love to go there right now and have a small, sweet banana.
Then I´d go to the second hand book shop, grab a good book, buy a chair and make it to the Old Prawn Jetty. If I was so rich, I certainly would take Ingo, too, buy a fishing rod and all the stuff needed. I even know where the store is. I bet Ingo would´t catch any fish; it´s simply too hot. So we´d go to Chicken Treat and have an Hawaiian Pack each.
Heaven!
Should I start to play Lotto? ;-)
Btw... Italian males over there, seek for shelter. Ingo might find you and might want to end an
old curse...
