Australia's Best Kept Secret, The attraction of living in Adelaide Options

[MannyT]

Hi

On Sunday, 25 November 2007 we went Cherry picking in the beautiful Adelaide Hills. Cherry harvest time in the Adelaide Hills ranges somewhere from early November through to the end of December/early January.

This is the third year in a row that we have ventured into the Adelaide Hills to pick our own cherries. On Sunday we decided to go to a cherry farm called Stella Creek in the Basket Ranges area of the Adelaide Hills. What a beautiful setting, lovely house, very, very neat grounds and gardens surrounded by cherry and apple trees and a dam teaming with Murray Cod.

The trip up Magill Road and then along the winding road through the hills on the way to Lobethal was just awe inspiring. The Hills at this time of the year are just beautiful with the apple and pear orchards, vineyards and cherry plantations laden with "young" and/or ripening fruit. All this a mere 15 to 30 minutes from the Adelaide CBD.

A friend of ours who visited Adelaide in 2005 (she owns a travel agency and tour company in Bergfliet/ Cape Town) told me when she was here that she thought that Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley, McLarenvale etc etc was Australia's best kept secret - the longer I live here the more I am enclined to agree with her (and this is from someone who did not like the place at all when we first arrived in Adelaide).

We will definitely be going back to Stella Creek in the next couple of weeks with Bronwyn and her family.

Enjoy!
Manny
Ps. Visit www.stellacreek.com.au.Good idea to phone the owner, Alan Mayne, to check best time and days to go picking cherries. 08 8389 8572

This post has been edited by MannyT: Nov 27 2007, 10:19 AM