Another day with heavy rains and flood warnings everywhere, here but even more in the Sydney area. On the one hand we would have preferred sun, on the other hand it’s experiencing the reality of the climate here. We had anticipated bad weather and had booked a visit of the local Ugg boots factory, Mortel’s.
So we drove there, under a downpour of rain. The news on the radio were all about floods and evacuations.
We got a tour of the factory by the owner himself, Tony Mortel, who peppered the technical explanations of the making of a ugg, with anecdotes and jokes. Fun fact: Ugg comes from “ugly”, according to Tony himself, the son of the boots’ creator.
We had lunch there, or… breakfast really, as they served breakfast the whole day. We tried to get a pic of everyone next to the oversized Ugg sculpture outside, it turned into « run and take the picture as fast as possible », to avoid becoming completely wet.
Tom and Nat then took us to the Regional Art Gallery in Maitland, where we saw mostly modern/contemporary and aboriginal art (Nongirrna Marawili).
Diner was at Mike’s today, shrimp on the barbie!
