Day 47 Fruit Picking - Today was just another standard day at work really. We started picking the farm for the second time, and had pretty good progress. We'll see what happens, but it might be a shorter day tomorrow. The only change from usual was that today got very hot - by lunch time it was 27/28 degrees. It seems to make work so much harder when it's that hot, it seemed like we did 2 days work today not 1! When I got in the car I discovered the wax air fre...

Day 46 Fruit Picking - Just another day at work. It was pretty cool all morning, but then warmed up this arvo. I spent quite a while talking to Jeff at work today, he has some quality stories! The one about his Jack Russle having a heart attack and dying when trying to mate with another dog, although sad, was hilarious! We finished picking the farm for the first time this week at about 2:30pm, so I then went in the shed and did some packing, until every else kn...

Day 45 Fruit Picking - Just another day at work today. It was pretty cloudy most the day, so it was 'only' 23 degrees, which was very pleasant to work in. It has taken 2 days, but we eventually seem to be making some progress on picking the farm. The extra half an hour at the end of the day is also pretty useful. Once I got home from work I played table football with Diggor for a while, watched all the highlights from the Bilabong Pro Tahiti surf comp (which wa...

Day 44 Fruit Picking - Back to work today then, being a Monday and all. I'm fed up of saying 'it's getting busier and busier' each week...but its true. Greg had to get 2 new pickers in, who started today - a Vietnamese couple, who seem very nice, despite struggling a little with their English. They are keen to get involved in conversations though, unlike the Germans, so all is good there. We have now also started doing an extra half an hour at the end of the da...

This morning Mark, Diggor and I got up at 5:30am to go deep sea fishing with Mark (and Dan and Matt, Angela's sons). We met him in Caloundra at the power boat club (near where i go fishing at Golden Beach / Pelecan Waters), where we launched the boat and then went down Pumestone Passage, and out to sea near Bribie Island. Despite being cold before the sun came up, it turned into a beautiful day. There was no swell and only small wind chop, so it was perfect boat...