Northern NSW and Growing Tomatos

Flying home to Europe on Malaysia Airlines this week were two people who had spent all their stay in the Northern Tablelands area of NSW. The first was a Swedish woman who came to visit her daughter who was living in Walcha, a small country town in the area. She alos visited three other towns in the area - Gunnedah, Armidale and Coonabaraban. Coonabaraban is most famous for its large radio telescope.

The other was a Dutch guy who stayed in Guyra on business. Guyra is quite a small town and not one that would welcome too many international business visitors so I asked him about his line of work. He is a technical person who was underseeing the operation of tomato processing and packing equipment. The machinery was custom made for the tomato firm and he told me that they process 60000kg of tomatos per day for delivery to Coles supermarkets along the east coast of Australia. I had not realised that Guyra is a major tomato growing area.

I came across quite a few travellers here on family visits, one sadly for a funeral and a British backpacker who did the common backpacker route down the Queensland coast - Cairns, Magnetic Island, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, Rainbow Beach, Fraser Island, Noosa and then Brisbane.

Travelling home on Qantas was a friendly Singapore family - parents and a teenage daughter. The father was very inquisitive about what I did and told me that he was a businessman involved in trading various products. On Emirates was a Thai student going home after a 3 month homestay and doing a general English course.

Till next week.

Cheers
Peter

Souvenirs Australia Warehouse