WELL, L👀KIE HERE!! 

What's inside this week?

⚓New Subdivision on VP South - are we ready for it??
⚓The Legend of Kevin - he's STILL going strong!
⚓From Captain (the) Cook. High seas and Halloween
⚓Coochie Crochet Club - The Mandala Tree
⚓Winner, Winner, Chicken (Parmy) Dinner!
⚓...and the rest 👇👇👇

Scroll to the end for 'What's on in October' and 'Standing Items' for events &  key contacts on Coochie 👇👇👇

⚓ From the Helm⚓

As you well know, the weather is always a solid topic for conversation. For millennia we’ve understood we can’t control it, and talking about it won’t change a thing — yet we still do!

And why not? It’s one of those easy connection points for the community. Especially this week, after we copped our first real storm of the season. We had plenty of warning, of course, and could feel the heat and humidity building until we could barely breathe (or see, with sweat stinging our eyes), yet somehow, we still acted surprised when the thunder cracked and the lightning got a bit too close for comfort.

I’ll admit it, I do love me a good storm. And from the chatter in both the Coochie Community and  Coochiemudlo Island Residents Facebook groups, it seems I’m not alone!

While the gardens drank it all in, my main concern was my carboat (that’s a tinnie, for the uninitiated). It was hitched to the back of my houseboat, safely away from the jetty downpipe, or so I thought, when the heavens opened. I had vivid images of it filling with rainwater, tipping over, and me standing helpless on the beach, watching it happen.

Cue action stations! I called a couple of boatie mates who jumped in to help haul it back to the jetty for a good bail-out before dragging it up onto the beach to wait out the rest of the rain. Thank you, legends. I appreciate you more than you know. 

There’s never a dull moment for a boatie, and lately, it seems there’s never a dry one either!

🎃 Happy Halloween for Friday (there's still time to register YOUR house  on the Trick or Treat map) — here’s to green lawns, blue skies, and a little sunshine to sail us into the week ahead.

Until next tide,

Adaire Palmer

Editor, Coochie Community Online
Aboard Adaire to Dream

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THE LEGEND OF KEVIN by Roger Whiting

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Once upon a time (okay, not that long ago), I somehow became an Amazon Live Influencer, quite possibly the only one in Australia. Feeling bold, I challenged my colleague Nick to a friendly live cook-off. What I didn’t know at the time was that Nick happened to be a graduate of the Raymond Blanc Cookery School, complete with a fully equipped chef’s kitchen.

Me? I was cooking on a boat, with a two-burner gas stove so close together I could only use one at a time without melting something I shouldn’t. 😅

Despite the odds, the wind (and the occasional wave), we went live every week for over a year, cooking up storms and selling kitchen gadgets on Amazon. The time zones made things interesting, I’d be whipping up dinner while Nick was frying up breakfast, but somehow it worked.

In this particular episode, Nick’s making Chilli Con Carne while I’m brewing Kombucha. Normally we’d cook the same dish, but as I explain in the intro, boat life requires a certain… flexibility (and the occasional plan B when the wind is high and the gas runs low).

We had an absolute blast — proof that you don’t need a fancy kitchen to cook up a good laugh and a great story. 😄

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There must be something in the salt air of Coochiemudlo Island, because creativity here seems to grow as freely as the pandanus along the shore.

For a place so small you can walk around it in an afternoon, Coochie boasts an astonishing concentration of artists, musicians, makers, and dreamers. Every street seems to hide a studio, every veranda hums with brushes, clay, or song.

From painters who capture the shifting light of the bay to sculptors who see stories in driftwood, the island pulses with artistic energy far beyond its size. It’s as if Coochie itself is the muse—whispering ideas on the sea breeze to anyone willing to listen.

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