[Leica] The Hop Harvest on Pender Island

[Howard Cummer]

Hello Luggers,
On Tuesday some 60 neighbours gathered at Richard’s Hop Farm on Pender Island 
to harvest his hop crop which he sells to the Hoyne Brewery in Victoria.

The community building exercise takes about 4 or 5 hours - including
a break for lunch with beer provided by Hoyne - who send their truck over
on the morning ferry - to take the freshly picked hops back to the brewery
for immediate cooking. The end product is Wolf Vine beer - highly sought after
and in very limited quantities. I have already ordered 6 big bottles from
the liquor store for our thanksgiving dinner with the family.

Here is a sub folder in my 2018 folder of the Hop harvest. Almost all pictures are
taken with my repaired M10 and the Tri-Elmar at various focal lengths.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/>

We managed to pick 40 barrels (each weighing about 12 pounds) of Cascade
Hops and 10 barrels of Sterling in the sunny 4 - 5 hours we were there.

I wanted to highlight one photo - the reward for the day:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/ <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Hop+Harvest/>

You can look large if you like. C&C always welcome.

Howard