In Wine Country

Kelso commented to me that she thought Trigger might have got into my liquor cabinet yesterday when they were all home alone because he had a bit of a lean to him.  I had some spare time at lunch today and so decided to take the Three Amigos into the Hunter Valley wine region.  It is about 35 minutes in good traffic from Newcastle so not far.  It's wines (shiraz and semillon) are regarded as quite good.  The first plantings in the region were in 1825 by James Busby who collected extensive cuttings from Europe and South Africa.  Of course the area was long inhabited by the Wonnarua tribe who got there about 30,000 years ahead of the Europeans -  well before any dreams of wine were thought of.

This is a spot I like to take people to because you get a good view over the wineries looking back East towards Cessnock which you can see better in the second extra.. 

In the first extra, Trigger could barely restrain himself when we stopped near some kangaroos grazing and in the second extra they met some cows.

Kelso, no wine tasting was allowed and the boys were all under strict control.

In other news, we have had buckets of wonderful rain.  Hooray.