Tuesday, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:48
Hi
John, do let us now progress reports of what you find out. I appreciate that you are being very thorough, as not everyone is as careful.
Breakdowns do occur, and even with their strict policies, South Australia has several recent outbreaks of fruit fly in the state. These can only be caused by fruit being brought across the border.
Common sense can prevail with a good deal of trust on the part of the inspector but a docket alone does not prove that the fruit presented was the fruit purchased at that store. We had a common sense approach re-entering WA when we had to unexpectedly return to
Kununurra after a day or two in the
Keep River National Park, having stocked up on fresh produce for our Tanami trip.
Breakdowns can hurt. We had all our apple and pear orchard removed and burnt following an outbreak of Codling Moth in our area, and discovery of just one moth in a trap down the road from us. This can only have entered the area in fruit inadvertently or deliberately brought into Western Australia.
Once the region where I live was fruit fly free. Now we cannot grow stone fruit due to constant re-infection, and to have fresh local we buy from orchards who have to use strong chemicals.
You can't be too careful.
Even if you have to go without fresh fruit, I'm sure you will enjoy Mungo. There is a new
visitor centre since we were there. Read about and take in the amazing discoveries and feel the antiquity, even though you cannot see them all. I have a 2009 My Blog on our visit to Mungo.
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