Day 12 Fruit Picking - Starting work at 7am was ok, until about 8:30am when the drizzle became heavy rain and got everyone soaked for about half an hour. The mud on the patches is getting more and more swamp like each day, making picking harder. However the season really seems to be turning on, this arvo on a patch you normally get max 4 trays of fruit from we were getting 7-9 trays, so it's getting busier. I got home from work about 3:30pm as usual, and was e...

Day 11 Fruit picking - Today was back to work as usual, and was actually the 1st time I have worked 2 weeks back to back.. I started at 7am as usual and it rained/drizzled for about an hour, plus the rain over the weekend meant the patches were like a swamp. Fortunately the rain stopped after an hour or so, and it soon got very hot when the sun came out. I finished at 3pm as usual and was exhausted. Trying to use the trollies through the mud is much harder wor...

I hardly got any sleep in the tent last night. It drizzled most of the night, so I had the drips from the trees falling on the tent. Then about 3am I was woken up by something splashing around in the creek and walking near the tent, which we now think was Dingos..great! Anyway, I got up about 6am to find that 2 of the 3 rods we had set for the night had gone off, but neither had fish on. We wound in and had bacon and egg rolls for breakfast, then packed up the c...

Today I woke up about 8:30am despite it being a weekend. I was really tired last night, so I'm a bit annoyed I didn't sleep for longer. I faffed about looking at surf reports and having breakfast for ages, then rang Jen (from work) about 10:30am to make sure I was still going camping/fishing with them. It was all on, despite a few people bailing out and a dodgey weather forecast, so I met her and her partner at her house about 11:30am. We went off to the 'secre...

Day 10 Fruit Picking - Its friday again, and another weeks work done! Same old routine, and started work at 7am. It was a bloody hot morning today though, by 10:30am I was fruit picking with my top off and sweating. I have no idea how I am going to cope in the summer. I finished work early today though - the rain last week ruined a lot of fruit, so it's been a quiet week. We finished the picking and then the last of the weeding etc, then clocked off about hal...