The journey has begun....

It was a last minute decision and preparation. Together with Mael, Abby and little Hafidz, we started our journey to Stanthorpe, a town popular for fruit picking at 7.45am, on 28th March. Stanthorpe is located at south east of Queensland, near the border of New South Wales, 223km from Brisbane. Roughly the journey took us around 2 hours and 30 minutes.



Along the road, there are acres of land filled with corns and sunflowers. There are also herds of cows, sheeps and horses. It was scenic, with crops, farm houses in the middle of huge lands. Mountains or hills at a distance. The road is almost empty. We passed by a few small towns, until we reached Stanthorpe.

We arrived at our first stop, an apple farm, around 10.10 am. When we got out of the car, we felt chilling wind. The recorded temperature was 22 deg C. Well, Brisbane was not that cold at that time, so we were practically shivering because of the first draft of air.

Nevertheless, the excitement of first experience in fruit picking quickly bring warm to us. Heheheh... Indeed everybody was happy. More than 2 hours of travelling, getting up early in the morning to prepare some food, fatigue, never crossed our mind.

Beeming, we walked up to a nearby farm house....

to be continued