These luscious cherries were from "Hoffee's Coffee and Fruit" on "The Fruit Run" a side route parallel to the highway near Stanthorpe that passes many vineyards and orchards. You could pick your own, so we did. Eat what you like, the owners said, so we did.
They were a British couple and their other love apart from fruit, is pigs. Large English Blacks, specifically. This heritage breed is from Devonshire and also Cornwall, where my Dad's forbears are from. Do you see the smile on her face?
She has fallen on her trotters, living on this farm. She had an equally large sister and they were both feeding a horde of piglets, some from one mother and some from the other. I counted about ten of them, going from one mother to the other.
This part of the Granite Belt was totally overrun with yellow flowers. The roadsides and paddocks were green and gold. I think they were mostly coreopsis, I had never seen so many, it was quite stunning.
Girraween National Park is also granite soil and supports a rich palette of Australian native wildflowers at this time of the year. Here is a small selection of the enormous number of photos I took on our walk to the Granite Arch.
And here is the Granite Arch itself.
Some appropriate words on the signage:
It was a good walk. The park is looking very healthy.
And here is the sunset shot, taken just before reaching our campsite near Glen Innes.
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