cherry & strawberry picking

there are three things you should do when you visit the mornington peninsula: 1 wine tasting at the many wineries 2 cherry and strawberry picking 3 walk along the beach. we did all three of these.

we visited t'gallant, a winery, and bought a few bottles of wine - 3 pink marcota and 1 juliet pinot noir. chye hup bought a bottle of marcota which we finished on the second night of our stay at rye.

chye hup, fiona and yew lian picked cherries at a farm in the arthur's seat area. they picked both the red and maroon cherries. the darker cherries were sweeter. for aus$5 each, they could eat as much as they like during the picking and whatever they picked and wanted to take away, they had to pay aus$5 for each kilo of cherries.

as for strawberries, four of them, each paid aus$8 to pick strawberries. they could eat as many strawberries as they wanted, except the big ones, and they were each allowed half a kilo (of strawberries) to take away.

they did not pick the very ripe ones because they were going to take them back to singapore.