The Nut Trip.

 Next morning we are off to pick up our nuts from Whynut We have just over 70kg from 212kg of Nut in shell. But our recovery rate is extremely high. We would expect about 2.8kg of rejects, but we had 0.63Kg of rejects. Sue at Whynut is extremely complimentary.

This is the total rejects that we can't use.

These have been rejected because of bits of skin remaining, but we can easily scrape this off and use these ones at home.

We head off to New Plymouth where we drop our nuts off to (a very talkative) Bill and Christine at emacadamia who process the nuts into products. They impress on us the fact that it will only be for one year - but  we are no sooner heading on our way home when we get an email saying the nuts are so  good, they would like to be  first in the queue for our nuts next year.

However we have had a long day and stay a night in Hawera, where we sample possibly the only two highlights of the town - the water tower, and a very good Indian meal.

Next day, the long trip back to Gisborne, but feeling quietly pleased with our harvest. We save 8kg for our own use.