Day - 55. Port Macquarie (6)

Ricardoes is one of our favourite places, where you can be given a bucket and scissors to harvest your own ripe, sweet strawberries.  They are grown hydroponically in very long hothouses with 10 rows in each.  There are four of these long hothouses, which are alternated by the grower for the pickers.

The same farm also produces delicious fresh tomatoes.

There is a small cafe, and a very large range of provisions made on site such as jams, chutneys, pickles, sauces, oils, honey, as well as fresh vegetables and eggs.

Ricardoes is located only about 10km out of Port Douglas.

Picking strawberries at Ricardoes.  You can see in the photograph how long the hothouse is, and also the white hydroponic pipes and clusters of strawberries.