Boral staff from Peppertree Quarry and Marulan South Limestone braved the arctic chill to set up a stand at the recent Tallong Apple Day event. Boral has been a proud major supporter of Apple Day for 14 years and is always a popular stop-off point for people attending the festivities.
Besides being able to put on a Boral hard hat and have a photo with the bobcat, both young and old alike got super competitive in the weight guessing of the granodiorite rock and how many rocks in the jar competitions. People got their calculators out to try and find the magic rock amount formula, and some of the rock weight guesses went up to 10 kilograms.
It wouldn’t be Apple Day if you didn’t have a crack at the ‘throw the apple on the board’ competition run by local legend Bruce. People soon worked out they could pick up a free bag of candy and a few colouring in pictures from Boral to take home on the way out the gate.
Even though the Boral stand was clearly the most popular place to visit on the day, there were also pig races, an ice-skating rink, wood chopping competitions, a medieval display for people wanting a selfie with a prince (who skipped the coronation that weekend), local music and an impressive choice of warm food and local produce.
Tallong is a small village around eight kilometres from Marulan. The event commemorates the town’s history as a major apple orchard district until a devastating 1965 bushfire wiped out all the orchards except the Watlings orchard. The Watlings farm’s ‘Big Apple’ is now located in the town centre, acting as a tourist attraction.
The team can’t wait for the 2024 event and hope next year the temperature will be slightly warmer – and they won’t have to drive home in a snowstorm.
