Rusty's Markets
Open-air produce market with over one hundred eighty stalls trading tropical fruit and seafood.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rusty's Markets in Cairns traces the open-air market back to nineteen seventy-five, when a local known as Rusty set up a handful of trestle tables for growers whose fruit did not suit the supermarkets. It follows how that small start grew into a market of more than one hundred eighty stalls, trading in a mix of languages. Come before sunrise if you want to see the sheds at their busiest, while the seafood is still going onto ice.
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