I was up early enough to see the sunrise at Mungo Lodge.
On the road just before 8am after a quick breakfast. It was drizzling as we left but the road was good and we made excellent time arriving at Mildura before 9:30. We decided to fill with fuel and go to the IGA before we headed to the Australian Mallee Botanic Gardens for morning tea. This time the shop was open so we had scones, jam and cream and bout some local pink salt, quandong jam and some honey.
We then drove around the gardens and saw the Wow Tree (over 2000 years old) and the even more impressive Seed Pod Ceiling and a few other things we had missed when there with Maree a few days ago.
On then to Maree's for lunch. We then drove around the local area with Maree as our guide to look at the crop fans, stone fruit trees just beginning to blossom, avos, and citrus. Lots of grapes have been left unpicked and unpruned as they are worth very little at the moment.
Then back to Maree's to organise stages for our trip home, pick lemons to take home, and to pull some of Maree's Carpobrotus to take home for my new garden.
Maree had bought some dried local fruits for me to take home but also bought an 'arrowroo' for herself. We spent some time trying to find out how to use it with both internet and book searches. No luck! She is going to plant it to see what it does.
Maree made a great slice for afternoon tea then a delicious vegetarian version of nachos for dinner followed by home made ice cream. I was able to photograph the recipes so will try them at home some time.
Maree's grapes are looking very sad at the moment as they are not being pruned.
Eventually Frank came home after a long day of deliveries to SA and Kerrie was able to get photos of the truck she rode in the other day.
There were some huge cumulus clouds to the east which were growing in height as we watched them.
In the evening Maree showed us a crochet pot mit made by Frank's grandmother and this led to more internet searches for a pattern. We thought we found a free one but unfortunately is is not free.
Frank showed Kerrie photos of the processing plants for the citrus he transports and also his racing car and very old holden which is sometimes in the Mildura Holden Museum.
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