Sorry that we have not updated for a while but as you know we are staying on this farm and there is not much exciting things happening here :P.
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| Thunder storm!! |
We have been doing the same jobs as we last wrote about, picking plums and peaches, but as their season is starting to be over, we have been working with other stuff too. We picked the last of the prunes, which was a very frustrating job since it was slow and there was not a lot of good fruit left. We got paid per boxes we picked and did not earn a lot… Also this job was really physical and you had to crawl around on the ground with your knees, and really, it was not worth the money at all!! Fortunately we got some better projects after that; for example putting up water pipes in the trees and putting bate in the trees against fruit flies. These jobs are quite easy and doesn’t involve rotten and disgusting fruits so we have been happy doing them. Another big project we have had is to pick apples, from both planted and wild trees. Especially picking apples from the wild trees has been a challenge since the ground around the wild apple trees is pretty rough and many times you have to cut your way through to get all the apples.
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| !!!PRUNES!!! |
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| Normal day at work ;) |
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| Our favourite place on the farm - NOT! Prunes, prunes, prunes... |
Otherwise we have spent time watching movies (quite weird ones since there is not a lot to choose from, the last two nights we have watched old movies with Tom Cruise starring; Risky Business and Interview with the Vampire, we wouldn’t really recommend either of them…), reading books and walking around in the area. We were really lucky and happy (especially Katja!) as we found out the farm owner’s wife has a guitar she doesn’t use that much anymore, and now we are practicing playing it to be professionals before we leave :P.
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| One of our many walks =) |
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| Happy with the guitar! |
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| Still cooking gourmet food;) filled capsicums! |
We also went playing tennis last week with Greg and today he took us to a nearby mountain/national park where we did quite a tough 2 hour bushwalk up the mountain! This bushwalk was a lot more untouched (we did not meet anyone else during the walk) than the one we did at the Blue Mountains and the terrain was a lot rougher. The nature was so beautiful and the scenery amazing. The highest look out point didn’t have any fences and you had to be quite careful up there not to fall down! It was really cool though. We heard that wallabies or big lizard could be spotted in the national park but unfortunately we did not see any =(. BUT we got to see a big eagle just 5 meters away from us and on the way to the mountain we saw big and sooo cute alpacas. We heard that it’s common here to keep a couple of alpacas in a sheep or goat herd because they scare away wolfs or other animals that might attack the sheep.
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| View from the first look-out point |
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| Sunbthing lizards=) |
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| Second look-out point |
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| Eagle spotted! |
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| Magical =) |
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| Mount Weddin, that we conquered ;) |
So, even though there is not much happening here we quite enjoy this and are happy to stay for another two weeks =). It feels good to be out in the nature and live an “easy” life. Also it´s nice that we can cook and bake anything we want and we really have time for it. We even got to bake an apple pie now from Gregs wild apples and it was really really good! Next week we are going to start wwoofing and our next project will probably be painting a house!
With a lot of love to our families and all our friends,
Saara & Katja <3
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