In the spirit of Bob’s live Oscarcast, I thought I’d post a minute by minute comment on yetserdays outing. The first one I did on my own. See, I was going horse-riding through Wine country. Now, D doesn’t mind wine (he’s liking it more this trip - Oz Pinot Gris. Mmmm). But horses? No, neigh, never.
So, on to the bus, and off we go.
After Fjordland the other day (which was really a whole day sailing through the Fjords; I.E. you don’t get off the boat), we had two full days at sea, with nothing but, as they say, “Water water everywhere.”
Across the Tasman sea from New Zealand to the first of our Australian ports: Tasmania. Mainly an agricultural, farming and tourist economy, with some tech stuff coming in recently.
On the agricultural front, Tasmania grows Apricots, Pears, more recently Walnuts and some Olives. Oh, and it’s one of the principal sources of pharmaceutical grade Opium Poppies to the U.S. and Germany.
Gotta love some poppies…