Getting with the Progamme - The Port Lincoln Long Lunch

This is an annual fundraising event that also showcases the best of district food and wine. It looked like another fun thing to experience while we were here. It's a variant of a progressive dinner. The concept is for several venues to offer small tasting plate/ tapas type catering options plus wine which one buys as you go along. The different venues can be visited via a minibus like a Hop on Hop off tour bus. Responsible drinking promoted.

Our long lunch kicked off with a stroll over to Jonathan and Wendy's in the Marina before being driven to the Yacht Club where we enjoyed 1/2 doz oysters prepared in a couple of ways plus a lovely beef medallion and chicken on a stick with a lovely cream and mustard sauce. We elected to skip Del Giorno's on the foreshore, which has some of the best food in town (and they have trophies as proof) because we'd already been there several times before including the Bloke's Birthday Bash.

 The local Lincoln Times -Social Page photographer and the Bloke.

Jason is originally from South Africa and was at a very windy bus stop in case you are wondering about the BIG HAIR!

So next we traveled to The Boston Bay Winery which has a lovely outlook over Boston Bay. It was just beyond Boston House on the Lincoln Highway where we attended the folk club the week before. With entrée already covered off, we chose the Tuna Steak option. YUM.

Boston Bay Winery here we come!

 

The bus stop clientele swap over

 

The reception committee at Boston Bay Winery

The wind associated with the front heralded in an earlier post, was already kicking up so the Bloke was rather chivalrous and shielded some young ladies with his jacket. His prize was worn proudly upon his cheek for the remainder of the day. All that lipstick was quite a conversation starter.

 Would you buy a car from this man?

Skipper of 'Fresh' Kim Clarke & wife Anne at the 'bus stop' crowd change-over.

Next stop Delacolline Winery not far from David and Sonja's off  Flinders Highway and high on the hill.  Here I opted for coffee and a Lavender Panna Cotta. The lavender was a bit overdone and I kept thinking of Pinoclean although the texture was sublime.

 A work of art and house speciality

We caught the last shuttle back into Lincoln and by a stoke of luck came across people we knew and got a lift back to the Marina with Evie and Drew just as both rain and darkness threatened. What a brilliant day!

Port Lincoln keeps ticking boxes and it will be tough leaving although we are actively planning to lever ourselves off this wharf soon. The lure? to join in the festivities over near Wirinna for a couple of significant '0' birthdays that need to be honoured. It's our duty to be there, weather permitting, for July 19. Today we were were just brushing up on party skills. It's blowing dogs off chains and the wave readings at Kangaroo Island say 8M !!! It will need to be much smaller than that before we venture off!