Well winter gave us one last blast with a temperature drop of 10C from the day before and it was back to jacket wearing! I had a drive out to Lake Wyangan and a good walk.

 

I then went to see if any of the small food provider were open and selling. First stop was Codemo Smallgoods where the owner told me about all the great events that had been cancelled because of Vivid! The food and wine festival, which should have been about a week ago, sounded really good especially the 'Festa Del Salsicce e Salami' - a long lunch celebrating the winner  that year's best 'homemade' salami!!

Another festival, which lasts for two weeks in October is the Spring Fest, where more than 100,000 oranges and grapefruit are used to make citrus sculptures  - I might need to remember that for next year!! The trees are laden with oranges. 

and the blossom of other fruit trees is beautiful.

 

     

   

                                                                                                                        

I also visited a producer of sustainable Murray Cod. They are in collaboration with some orchards by using their open 'ponds' to raise the cod. They were very obliging and packed my small piece of cod in ice in a special box so that it was fresh when it got back to Wollongong.

A very cold start 1C and ice scraping of the windscreen was the start of my 520km drive home.

I have enjoyed the wide open spaces but it's good to be back by the coast.

If yellow is your colour i suggest you head west as there is 'yellow' as far as the eye can see!!