SATURDAY
WANDILIGONG NUT FESTIVAL
BEECHWORTH -HERITAGE CENTRE.
Beautiful sunrise...
After a good night sleep, I was up early to watch the sunrise. Oh my, the air was so fresh, cold and invigorating. 
Soon everyone was up and we all enjoyed our cuppa of hot coffee before going for the buffet breakfast at the restaurant downstairs.
May has booked the buffet breakfast together with the room and the restaurant doors were opened at 9.00am sharp.
fresh juices, yogurt, milk, oats, muesli
canned peaches and blueberry panna cotta
Bacon, sausages, poached eggs, scrambled eggs.
Vanilla muffins..... did someone took a bite of that muffin???
After breakfast, we drove down to Wandiligong, a small rural town at the foothills of the Victoria Alpine for the Bright Autumn Nut Festival. The Nut festival is around April/May and showcases the end of harvest produce. There are stalls selling fresh farm produce, varieties of nuts especially chestnuts and walnuts, arts and crafts and of course plenty of food and wine.
Lots of Australian arts and crafts..
Have you seen "naked" pumpkin seeds?
Of course I have to buy the seeds as well as the pumpkin seed oil which helps to lubricates joints and keeps our skin healthy! The Australian Pumpkin Seed Company.
stone art....
you could go nuts over all these and more
We did not stay long here as it was getting hot and we left and drove on to Beechworth historic and cultural precinct. Set in the enchanting foothills of the Australian Alps, Beechworth is surely the state’s, if not the country’s, best-preserved 19th-century gold town.
the Town Council @ Beechworth
The original offices were built in 1858 and this present front from 1889. The hall was sometime used as a second courthouse and there are storage rooms underneath the hall that were converted into prisons cells.
The centerpiece....
The Beechworth Town Hall Tapestry was
completed for the Bicentennial Celebrations in
1988 and was a community project initiated by
Beechworth Arts Council in 1983. The design was developed by Leonie Bessant
from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. It is a collage of landscapes and the town views and you can see some Chinese calligraphy.
Beechworth Honey Experience...
Beechworth Sweet company.
every kids' dream, a mother's nightmare and the dentist's pot of gold
our coffee break @ Beechworth Bakery.
the original Beechworths Bakery established in 1984 on the site of Dunlop's Scotch Pie Shop in the 1870s. Now they have six bakeries across Victoria and southern NSW.
We took our lunch break here inspite of the long queue. They even have a Ned Kelly Pie and their ever popular Beestings Buns...
original news agency since 1864, this was a rebuilt version after the 1867 fire.
The Post Office was completed in 1859 and the short tower was added in 1860. Following a fire in 1867, the building was rebuilt with the bell and clock tower.
I enjoyed walking through the town and taking in all the quaint shopfronts.
fancy teapots..
Beechworth Milk Bar, formerly the site of the Argus office, the first newspaper sold in Beechworth.
We met up and sit and relax our feet and have an ice cream to cool down.
stopover along the road near a vineyard..
We delayed around here for as long as possible....
Our light evening meal @ Bright Chalet...
Nice photos and the Autumn foliage is amazing.
ReplyDeleteThe restaurant's buffet starts so late and not 6-7am.
I guess its because its a holiday resort and for the guest to sleep late!
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