Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Expensive Cherries

A crisp morning in St Helens, with the promise of good weather.  After breakfast we made our way down to the town, and enjoyed coffee overlooking the bay.



We headed off towards Bicheno, our next overnight stop.     We visited a fruit farm along the way, but it was too late in the season to enjoy any of their fruit.  On chatting with the owner, we discovered that some cherry farmers in Tasmania sell their cherries for $150-200 per KG to Asia!   I think I paid $15 a KG in Harcourt when a friend and myself went self picking in the season.
Our next stop along the way was Shelley Beach, where I was pleased to visit the environmentally friendly composting toilet.   Frank just called it a thunder box.

Shelley beach was a long stretch of beach with a young lad trying to catch a wave, unsuccessfully though.










Once we reached Bicheno, we looked around for a lunch venue, and found the Lobster Shack, where we enjoyed a lobster roll and chips 





















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