Our first stop was to visit Origin's Cullerin Range Wind Farm near Gunning. After visiting Origin's Gas Fired Power Station at Uranquinty earlier in the year, a seed was planted that we all wanted to know more about wind energy. The Wind Farm is an amazing sight to see and learn about how they work. The turbines are 80m tall and the blades are 45m long! The 15 turbines on the farm will permanently power 15,000 homes.
We had a lovely overnight stop at Schonegg Country Guesthouse in Murrumbateman. I can highly recommend this accommodation - it has a wonderful quiet, country atmosphere and Evelyn our host was just amazing. It would be a perfect base for a trip to Canberra because it's only about 30mins drive from the capital and well away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Our next stop was to visit French Black Truffles of Canberra. No one in our group had ever experienced truffles before - never smelt or eaten them. Sherry, the owner of the truffle farm was a wealth of knowledge and an extremely passionate woman. The weather was horrendous so we couldn't go out in the paddock with Sherry and Snuffle her truffle hunting dog and experience a hunt, but we listened to Sherry's experiences with awe for over 3 hours!! We all had a smell of a fresh truffle (the 3 month truffle harvest had just finished) and came up with some amazing similarities of what they smelt like - molasses, red wine, earth, smoked oysters?!! They were definitely very different smelling, but quite pleasant, so we all can't wait to actually experience eating some one day.
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