Saturday, January 15, 2011

Strawberry Farm and Tuck's Ridge (Road Trip Day 2)

Here is the second day of our road trip...We sort of having a little confused on where to go on the 2nd day of our road trip..with no suggestion among me and Queenie, Ah ting flipped through the tourist guide book and immediately found this strawberry picking farm...
Without further ado, I kick started the engine and run for our 2nd road trip.
Just an hour rides, we reached our destination. SUNNY RIDGE.
This strawberry farm will only be open for summer season, which mean their farm will open for visitors for merely few months.. 

Jarret also told us that we gotta try their Strawberry Ice Cream..YUM!

It is another sunny day for us, and the farm is packed with people...The above picture shown not much crowd on the farm, but trust me, after an hour, lots of crowd started to pour in and fill the farm..


The planting of strawberries were all well organised.

To my surprise, the pathway is exceptionally clean and easy for us to walk..

See the crowd..




The picture shown the old land which was ...As you all see far behind the picture there is a long line of queue...Those were people lining up to pay for strawberries picking...Behind my position of taking this picture is a new land of fresh untouched strawberries............









The few pictures above obviously shown us looking for BIG RED JUICY strawberries...but seems like the big red and juicy ones have all been reap by the early birdss....Argh..not pretty much happy about it...

However, we started to see few families going down to a new land full of fresh, ripen strawberries...We started to question each other as there is a clear signage which strictly forbid us to crossover there..


After a few minutes, we saw a staff slowly walking down.. we naughtily think that he is here to get rid of the few families who broke into their new land.. However, to our surprise, he is here to get rid of the signage..and I hastily walk down to the new land of STRAWBERRIIEEEEESSSSSS!!!! 
WOOOHOO!!!! Look at the picture below! those are what I called BIG RED JUICY Strawberries!!! 




I'm so excited, walking down the path full of ripen strawberries..

Incredibly red...

This is Rachel who hold on the box of big fat juicy strawberries.

saw the difference of strawberries from the old and new land? The two big raw strawberries are from the old land, but the bloody red one is from the new land...







I wondered if you all saw my picture of eating Three Big Fat Red Juicy strawberries at one time!! Scroll down for the epic pictures taken! hahaha!

Me tasting on the strawberries...

Indulging.....mmhhHHmmmm......

Holy mama!!!! It is so tasty!!!!!!!!

Me Eating

Me eating again...Queenie can't hold on anymore...hahahaha!

With strawberries stuffed in my mouth, I fed Queenie with another strawberry...

Strawberry stuffed in my mouth again! haha!
Me eating again! LOL!

Eating...

Eating......

Wiping strawberry juice which burst out from my mouth...
Almost every pictures above was me with strawberries stuffed in my mouth..and almost every pictures is me eating the freshly picked strawberries!!! I think it worths AUD$8 dollars per person for picking and eating in this farm...Every big red strawberries I ate, was honestly fat, juicy and sweet...

After finished filling up those boxes, they decided to stop me from eating more strawberries...as I think I ate about one and a half big box of strawberries...muahahahaaaaa! 

Alright, next food to fill our mouth was the strawberry ice cream! See how satisfied they looked with the strawberry yogurt ice cream below....XD 
(Didn't find any of ah ting and my pictures? As we were holding the cameras!)
This is what I called...Happiness.....LOL!



We finished the ice cream in the car, and decided to visit some winery. Drove around, and we stop for a winery named Tuck's Ridge..We saw lotsa cars stopping outside the wine yard, so we think maybe this winery is famous for its wine...haha!

Take a look for some pictures we took on the winery yard..
This is a place for customers to sit down and have a great view of Tuck's Ridge wine yard...
View from the cafe...

LOL! this is the quote of the week for Tuck's Ridge..haha! from Homer Simpson..

The entrance to cellar...

See the crowds!!! 
The crowds inside the wine tasting cellar...

Me tasting the wine...XD

This is the certificates and awards they received...no wonder this place is so famous and packed with wine lovers...


 Some interesting illustration..




We bought a wine to go with our dinner that night..HAHA!!!

Shiraz Rose from Tuck's Ridge..

This is where we ended our 2 days road trip..I delayed a little for posting this 2nd day trip as I am having another Sydney food trip with my dear dear....This is a memorable trip for me as the first day I broke my records of driving 12 hours ...the 2nd day...wow, for merely few hours, I ate the most strawberries in my life!!! What can I say? Marvellous experience, fun and exciting trips with you guys, lets do it someday again!!! More on Sydney FOOD trip coming up!!!

Cheers!

1 comment:

Steve G. said...

Wow! I love the pics of the strawberry farm! It looks a great place to visit! Seems like the entire trip must have been fun! Thank you very much for sharing! :)