The Bushy Life

Today we had a family day today out to see a Bee Keeper and then out to a rock melon farm. It was very interesting to see how it all happens and the huge scale of the property.

Tas was our tour guide pictured below. He keeps his bees out on many of these properties so they can pollinate the fruit. The white boxes you can see in the photo above are the bee hives and the green shed way down the back is where the sorting and packaging is done. Click the images to enlarge.

This pile of Rock Melons doesn't look very appetising, but that's OK because this is the waste area where poor quality rock melons come to die. For the most part they still taste great, they just look ordinary and the everyday consumer doesn't want to eat something that doesn't look right. Didn't stop us though. We knocked a few off. They had only been on the ground 15 minutes when we got there though.


Here is a picture of my daughter Mikayla doing her share of the work and picking some Rock Melons to take home.


It really was a great day out doing something a little out of the ordinary for us. Especially since we had the behind the scenes tour and got to taste some great Rock Melon.