We got up at a reasonable time (9:00) had a great breakfast and then went to a winery to meet up with the rest of the team. How good is that.
Most of us climbed the "mountain" trail at the Tallis Winery and were treated to some really spectacular views.
We were then taken to a series of small towns starting with St James, that had covered their grain silos with art. Interesting concept. There was lots of traffic but not much financial benefits town's that we could see.
While it may look dry now (and it is) the harvest is completely done by now and planting will begin in May for next year's crop. This is very, very productive region with great crops of grain so it will be green soon enough.
The trail had markers all along it that explained the history of the area and helped to explain what we were seeing.
There were farms all around the hill that we were were climbing. One was harvesting grapes.
We went back down for lunch with wine and a selection of tasty dishes.
We also saw a small agricultural museum at one of the stops that had a type of combine that was as unknown to me
The header of this machine just took the heads so the system did not have to deal with a lot of straw. Interesting!
This is what it looked like.
We went back to Bruce and Ann's place to relax before supper.
While looking for mushrooms we happened onto an Echidna. Cool animal that reminded me a bit of our porcupine. It has poor eyesight but can smell you if you are upwind. Cool animal.
There was lots of signs of kangaroo as well.
For supper we drank wine and had kangaroo steaks. Wonderful evening and the end of a great day.
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