Will Enjoying The Ginger Beer Tour
We decided to throw ourselves into Australia yesterday, to screw the budget and just enjoy everything we could find. So, we hit Bundaberg big styley. First off we visited the local Historical Museum where we paid $5 each to look at some rather poorly styled mannequins displaying early 20th Century ‘fashions’, lots of memorabilia which seemed to spring directly from Will’s childhood homes, and several carts, farmyard machines and pulleys. It was actually quite fun. But not quite as interesting or as big as the local museum of Opotiki in NZ (see previous blog), which I am slightly biased towards because the manager let us dress up like shopkeepers and pretend to sell each other sweets.
Then we toured the Bundaberg Brewed Drinks factory, where the famous ginger beer is produced. It is lovely and is one of the few ginger beer producers left in the world that still use real ginger root rather than faux flavouring (at least, that’s what they told us!) At the end we got to do a tasting of their 12 or so different fizzy drinks. Ginger beer, diet ginger beer, lemon lime and bitters, diet lemon lime and bitters, cola, fizzy peach, apple ale, lemon ale… To say we burped slightly afterwards would be an understatement.
Hello Turtle!
We then mooched along to Bargara beach where we scoffed some delicious ice-creams (maple and walnut for me, old English toffee and mint choc chip for Will) before finding our campsite for the night, conveniently located next to the Mon Repos turtle hatching beach. At 7pm we donned our invisible cloaks, took a torch and headed out along with a plethora of other keen-eyed and keen tourists to try and spot a few little hatching turtlies. And we were not disappointed. Within minutes we found a tiny mound of sand just about to hatch. Moments later dozens and dozens of teeny little TMNTs (well, sort of) emerged. Scrambling over each other whilst still learning to crawl the little beasts wandered in a sort of stoned-like manner towards the sea. Very cool little guys.
Chish and fips and a bottle of red for dinner. A rather good day all in all. xx
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