Day 10 - Penola

No walking today
I had a coffee at the local bakery at 0900 with Mark and Darren while the other pilgrims went to Mass at the local church.

Visited the Mary MacKillop centre at 0930. Great displays and information. We toured the area which included the old school room and wandered down Petticote Lane;  full of well maintained old pioneer cottages.

A volunteer at the centre knew my family, even knew my full surname. I told her my dad used to have a farm in Lucindale and once I told her the name of the farm manager she knew who my family was.  She used to work for the local council and could remember it from there (I think she may have phoned one of the managers sons for full details of my surname).  Small world and she has an amazing memory.

I handed over Gus to his new minder and then we were off at 1200 to Father Woods Park. The wooden sculpture were really well done. A large red gum there is apparently the tree that Father Woods sat under many times during his travels. We were trying to work out the age of it; if it was a tree when Father Woods sat under it in the 1860's then we reckon it would be at least 300 years old.

Next stop was Redmans Winery at 1235. We had a wine tasting for 25 minutes and then onto Zema Estate at 1303 for some more tasting. From there we continued onto Othello for lunch at 1340. Lunch included wine tasting and was 13 wines and 13 dishes (small servings). Great food and good wines. It was more than enough for a lunch and we are not likely to eat a lot at dinner.

We stopped by the old Coonawarra rail siding for the official end of walk photo and then back at the motel at 1620 for a S.C.A.N (Senior Citizens Afternoon Nap) before dinner. 

We all met at the Royal Oak Hotel at 1830 for dinner. The pub was really busy and quite loud. I had another meal of calamari and just 1 beer. We were all quite tired but we had many laughs. I was back at my room before 2100.