Its been along time since I've had the chance to write.. it is February 5th at 9:20 PM (+10 GMT) as I am writing this, it won't be posted for some time to come.
To start with we found something to do after surf camp! (which we are currently doing now) We are working on a farm near Taralga, New South Wales with the Croaker family. I'll get back to that later..
First of all I need to cover surf camp (pictures to follow). Surfing is hard!! It is probably the most physically demanding thing I have ever done.. but I managed to stand on my board twice in the first day, and many times on the second! Unfortunately Ross injured his knee on the first day while dismounting the board, and we had to leave camp after two days rather than four. I have to say though, I was so tired I don't think I could have handled the remainder of the camp anyhow.. and the camp owners were nice enough to give us vouchers to come back to the camp for an additional two days anytime during our trip! I'm sure we will do that later, just before coming home (End of May). The Wednesday and Thursday to follow were used only to recover from surfing, we stayed in Sydney again. Tuesday night I could barely move.
That Friday we got the train from Sydney to Goulburn where we were picked up by Chris Croaker headed for work on his farm. We are going to be at the farm from Friday to the following Saturday (It is currently Monday night as I write this). It is a 2200 acre sheep farm. There are 6 or 7 work dogs, some chickens, a cat, shearing sheds, barns, and everything else you'd expect. Saturday we spent the day weeding their house garden and working the compost. Yesterday Ross was lucky and got to go feeding the sheep with Chris, while I worked on a fence near one of the shearing sheds, and today we all worked on a fence far out into the farm (electric fence at that: 65,000 volts!) Tomorrow we will be stacking animal feed, and patching up some cracks on a water collection system. In our spare time we clean old bricks for use in future projects. Today we both got the chance to drive Chris's manual truck.. with the drivers seat on the right side of course! It was interesting driving on the left, driving a truck, and driving manual.. three great experiences! I think I have finally figured out the manual transmissions once and for all.. Wednesday I will be feeding the sheep with Chris and Thursday and Friday are still up in the air.
After the farm we will travel to Canberra, which is in the Australian Capital Territory. Very exciting! They have some great museums, galleries, and a 1.1 billion dollar parliament which was only completed a few years ago! There will be lots of pictures from there for sure..
That's all for now.. talk to everyone soon!
Cheers,
Andrew
2 comments:
Andrew, you look very happy on that surf board!!!!! I'm sure you both enjoyed your stay at the Croaker farm. It looks very arid. So much to see and experience. The pictures are excellent. Is that lightning on the horizon? Enjoy each day. Love, Dad.
Wonderful pictures Andrew, looks like they're from National Geographic. Hard to miss that Canadian flag on your camera bag. Nice to get a glimpse of where you are. Gheerful room on the farm. Take care. Love you.
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