here's a short whirlwind recap of the whirlwind trip i had around swan valley (i think heheh).
drove out with uncle peter, auntie lily, my aunt and my uncle who was here for a week.
we couldnt enter the factory. all we did was to stare through the 2.5m by 1m clear glass. anyway they made cutesy hens pecking around something in the middle and there's 2 giant bears overlooking them. nice moulds they must have huh.
i captured many photos and pieced them up together in the hopes of doing a panoramic almost-360degrees shot to show you how magnificent it looked, BUT blogger had to spoil my plans and cause my picture to be so minuscule!!!!
being the only "child" of the group, i have alot of pictures taken by myself... bear with it. ha.
walked back to the carpark on the very yellow sandy flat grounds. everythings beautiful in real life and unlike picture quality. wish you were there together!
oooh i love plastic-y stuff like raincoats, gumboots/wellingtons/rain boots, and melissa shoes! this raincoat will look so nice on chloe or weiliang wongwongwong.
my first kinda typical commercial-macro shot of the bee pollinating the flower!
i wonder how i wonder why! yesterday you told me about the blue blue sky but all that i can see, was just this yellow lemon tree!
you could see little lychee-looking balls on the trees and theyre not fruits! i tried to tug at the branch to get to the ball, and it burst on me! it's got a really fragile shell. and psychologically or physically, i really did feel itchy, ugh. my aunt was annoyed with me taking risks like that.
the stone had memorials over them. this is the spot where residents like to scatter ashes. cute repeated messages "grandma, enjoy the scenery" tickled me.
first stop!!!! chocolate factory!!!
with auntie lily and uncle peter
not a nice shot of the interiors of the factory
i got meself a huge redgum honeycomb icecream.
we couldnt enter the factory. all we did was to stare through the 2.5m by 1m clear glass. anyway they made cutesy hens pecking around something in the middle and there's 2 giant bears overlooking them. nice moulds they must have huh.next stop! something rapids! can't remember the name! it has something to do with the event AVON descent or something- where people race down in their canoe rafts.
i captured many photos and pieced them up together in the hopes of doing a panoramic almost-360degrees shot to show you how magnificent it looked, BUT blogger had to spoil my plans and cause my picture to be so minuscule!!!!
ku cheong and ku ma!
being the only "child" of the group, i have alot of pictures taken by myself... bear with it. ha.
ran out of creative poses as you can see.
we were trying to look like vogue cover models
walked back to the carpark on the very yellow sandy flat grounds. everythings beautiful in real life and unlike picture quality. wish you were there together!next stop down the road we headed to the world of honey or something like that. a shop full of honey products!
oooh i love plastic-y stuff like raincoats, gumboots/wellingtons/rain boots, and melissa shoes! this raincoat will look so nice on chloe or weiliang wongwongwong.
comparing my forest green boots to the pretty striped bees one and being covetous.
looking at the bees UP-CLOSE
interesting how the queen bee commands so much power from her whole army of bees.
there were pots of different kinds of honey to taste, like chili honey, banksia honey, blackbutt honey etc. many lemon trees nearby the place but they are in private property area so i couldnt pick any, but the shop offers some free plucked lemons and check out the weirdo lemon plucked:
SUCH HUGE LEMON!! it's almost bigger than my face!
reckon it could get into some local news on biggest lemon ever plucked!
next we head out to...... -GUESS WHERE?!-
can you make out this is?
can you make out what's overlying over the heads of the cars?
they're grapes!!!! we went to a wine factory/ shop. the bigger adults tasted wine while little me professes to not know how to appreciate wine and gave them a miss. tried a sip later on, and it's really quite ok, much to my surprise! although QOO white grape would have been nicer any day.
zoomed in on a lemon tree flower:
my first kinda typical commercial-macro shot of the bee pollinating the flower!
i wonder how i wonder why! yesterday you told me about the blue blue sky but all that i can see, was just this yellow lemon tree!next stop was to the Mondo nougat factory!
ok tourist shot... smile!
frankly, mondo always come to my mind of cheap nice shoes.
nougat factory interiors through the glass window!
some decor~
later we head to another wine factory/ restaurant, whose wines are quite popular and well-known in western australia: Houghton!
there's this huge alfresco dining beside the winery shop, and uncle peter was telling me that this tree is called the itchy ball tree:
you could see little lychee-looking balls on the trees and theyre not fruits! i tried to tug at the branch to get to the ball, and it burst on me! it's got a really fragile shell. and psychologically or physically, i really did feel itchy, ugh. my aunt was annoyed with me taking risks like that.
self-timed group shot!
beautiful place with great scenery and air.
having nothing better to do obviously....
the winery/ cellar
so that was the last stop! later auntie lily sent us back to a train station so that we could find uncle ben, who's my ku ma's university great friend.
on the tracks! you can really tie yourself to the tracks there if you want!!
we went to mosman park station and uncle ben picked us! got to some hill there and looked at the river/lake/ocean. i think it's the ocean. haha.
zoomed into the city
the stone had memorials over them. this is the spot where residents like to scatter ashes. cute repeated messages "grandma, enjoy the scenery" tickled me.
uncle ben's back garden and the miniature landscape! too cute!
spot lion king?
the cute boys
my aunt and uncle! i made them all do chinese style martial arts poses!
ok going to update next few entries soon. it was a pleasant day and uncle ben and auntie socks were very kind to take me back to my place at murdoch. love them muchos! and also to uncle peter and auntie lily for patiently taking us around :)
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