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We had been called in for emergency child care for our two granddaughters so that Mum and Dad could return to work after the Christmas school holidays while school and kindergarten for the girls didn't commence until the following day. We thought it might be fun to visit Rayner's orchard which was just down the road from them and that the girls might enjoy picking their own fruit and a tour of the orchard. There is an hour tour available on a small train dragged along by a tractor which stops at various sections of the orchard and the driver walks you along between the fruit trees passing on little gems of information about each fruit and selects some for tasting. We were then in most cases allowed to pick our own fruit to take home at the cost of $5 per kilo so we gave the girls a bag each and limited them to 5 pieces they liked from each variety. You can eat as much as you like walking along and as our granddaughters love fruit they were prepared to try almost everything on offer. At any time of the year there are eight different fruits ready for picking so it really wouldn't matter what time of year you visited. When we returned to the cafe we weighed and paid for our fruit and then we were to have lunch before returning home. The menu is very limited, the girls wanted chips but they weren't available and we couldn't find anything that interested any of us so we chose an ice cream each and then left to go home. So to sum it all up, we would take this tour again just for the experience for the children, however, my husband and I are seniors and it cost $50+ for entry, not great value for what you get, children 5 and under were free, and they should have been probably up to the age of 8. I thought with picking the fruit yourself $5 per kilo was too expensive, $3 would seem more reasonable and our ice cream cups we bought at the end of the tour were $8 each, far too expensive for what we got and the girl who served us acknowledged that and gave us a local discount.
