The Apple Isle

We visited the Salamanca Markets in Hobart on Saturday and they were well worth a visit. The only downside, as one of the locals pointed out, was that you don't really get to see the historic aspect of the area with all the stalls there. (Certainly when we went past later in the day, after the stalls had been packed up and taken away, the area looked very different.) There was lots of fresh fruit and vegetables on offer and we bought a couple of apples - 20 cents each - and they were the tastiest, crunchiest, juiciest apples we've had in a long while. No wonder they call it the Apple Isle. And in the midst of this euphoria, we wondered what would have happened if Adam and Eve had never left the Garden of Eden. What would have happened if they hadn't partaken of "the apple". But it wasn't an apple I said. It's portrayed as an apple but that's probably because no-one remembers what the fruit of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 2:17) looks like.