The first vineyard we went to was Tempus Two - we sampled a few wines and also went to the Very Smelly Cheese Shop adjacent to it to sample some cheeses. The whole vineyard was quite disappointing because it was very commercial and obviously geared towards tourists and making as much money as possible. The views, however, were beautiful (even though it was raining).
We decided that we'd try and find something less commercial so the next day we visited the McWilliams winery. Here, we had a proper tour of the vineyard; it was quite interesting to see how wine is produced on such a massive scale, especially when I compare it to my Dad's
yearly home brewing!
After two days in the Hunter Valley drinking lots of wine and eating some wonderful food, we got back on the road for the last few days of our trip. We headed towards the coast ending up in a little seaside town called Umina. Again we stayed in a small cabin on a campsite, which was right by the beach. Thankfully the sun decided to come out after days of rain so Dave spent the day body-boarding (and got the worst sunburn since we've been in Aus) whilst I sunbathed and read!
By far the best part of the holiday though was Dave's near miss with a possum that we saw on the campsite after a post-dinner walk on the beach; as he was taking a photo of it (it was really tame and he managed to get really close) it swiped it's little paw out and almost knocked my camera out of his hand. Vicious little bugger!
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