Baking day, Winemaking and Cave tour

I love baking! Its easy and so rewarding to smell and eat home made bread. Every morning I try and make bread for breakfast, one thing you cannot make when you are at home. Time is not enough, or the energy…J Klara was looking for something to spill energy on so today we not only made the morning bread, we also set a dough for making cinnamon buns. With cinnamon in our hair we set off to visit Swallows winery, very small winery, only 5 acres, and 3000 bottles per year. Owned by Tim and his wife and he picks and make the wine himself. They have also built a very nice chapel called The flower chapel. The walls are filled with aquarelle paintings of all the wild flowers in Western Australia and Sue painted them.

Flowers in the chapel

Interesting to know more about how to make wine. Swallow focus on Cabernet Merlot and Cabernet Franc. You harvest the wine, put it in a machine and remove the grapes from the stalks. Then you put it in a barrel and add yeast for 1 week or so, stomping and turning it around before you press it and bottle it.

Oskar the winemaker

(or at least something like that). One wine plant can grow and be harvested for approx 50 years.  After watching the pond with green frogs and more paintings, next stop was Jesters flat, home of horses and offering horse trails.

Frogs in the pond

Almost everywhere we go you can see the traces of bushfires. Trees and bushes are black and if you make bushwalks your feet gets black. The last stop of this tour was the Lake Cave, a small but exciting cave. We joined a guided tour down in the dark, interesting!

Down we go