The life of a farmer ..
So a couple of weeks ago, we went wildcaving. That is when we (us wwoofers) were first introduced to Figsy, our guide during the day of caving. Let me tell you, he is absolutley barking mad.
Buchan is the nearest town to where our farm is. It's basicly a petrol station, and a hotel. But Buchan is allso famous for it's caves. Loads of caves in Buchan.
So when we first started talking about going to see the caves, the plan was to walk uppright through the caves like every other normal humanbeing and just take some nice pictures and then have a relaxing afternoon in Buchan. But then this Figsy decided to take us through what they refer to as a wildcave, a cave where there are no lights at all, and the only way of getting through the cave is to squeeze yourself through ridiculosly small holes and crawl around like an eeedjooot for two hours. It was so much fun, but it was pretty scary.
Here are the two pictures that I at the moment can locate:
This is the beginning of the cave. Called wilsons cave by the way.
We walked up to this hole and everyone was like "Yeah ok, come on now where is the real entrance figsy?!" And he just laughed at us.
Haha, me among others looking very serious. This was one of the few times we were actually walking. We mainly crawled, using our arms to get us forward.
It had been raining for about three days straight before we went down into the cave so everything was really slippery. At one point we are sliding sideways on our bums sitting on this sort of hill type thing and Figsy says: "Whatever you do dont slide down here cause its a fifteen feet drop down there and you would probably die". Getting to know Figsy later, we understood that even though he was serious, he just likes to wind us up like that.
And last weekend we went rafting down the snowy river. Guess who was steering our boat? Figsy of course!
Famous last words from him include:
"Right so obviously down this rapid we are going to go backwards!" and us screaming "What? No please aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
"When we go down this rapid you have to be really careful because as we get down we are going to slam right in to a rock on the right side. Yeah, we have lost a few people that way"
And so on ..
But the rafting was the most fun I thought :)
We actually went down the snowy river yesterday aswell with some schoolkids, but that is a different story alltogether. Including me on the floor in the boat going down a rapid with a kid over me screaming: "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIIEEE, WHY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" haha. Nice kid. Mind you he couldnt swim so he was probably right.
Otherwise what's new? Well it's apparently my birthday. Happy birthday to me. And we are going to sydney soon, and then I am flying to THAILAND YAY!!!!!!!!! So happy about that. Am going with Dounya :) :)
And after Thailand, I think I might just go home. I am sort of starting to miss my appartment and just having my own space. Travelling is fun, but it is going to be nice to get home soon.
Photos from the snowy river will be up shortly. Absolutley gorgeous place. Really nice day :)
weighing bulls and stuff :)
G'day everyone!
First of let me apologise for my lack of brain function as I wrote my latest blog in swedish, so sorry for that.
Right now me and my Bo are in Gelantipy wich is still in the state of Victoria but a lot further towards sydney. We are working at a bullfarm/horsebreeders/adventuretour-company in the "snowy mountain" region. It is quite spectacular up here, we are high up in the mountains and these last couple of days it's been like living in a Lord of the rings film, looking over the mountains covered in fog and clouds. And since it has been raining on us real bad the mountains look green and pretty, it's very nice.
So what we are doing now is called WWOOFING: it stands for willing workers on organic farms. We work for food and accomodation.
Today we have been working with the bulls, they are soooo big and strong! My job was to weigh the bulls and identify them with their eartags. It's pretty scary in the beginning, they can weigh up to 1200 kg when they are fullgrown and just standing by them, allthough they are in a cage thing is still pretty intense.
But it's such good fun, and for me it's really nice to finally feel usefull again. In melbourne just working at the weekends made the weeks go pretty slow.. I reckon this month is gonna go really fast!
So I will tell you more ahead about the work we will be doing here at karronda park.
Visit the website: karoondapark.com.au to see more about where I am right now!
Hejda melbi
Garden ligger pa vag mot sydney, men det sager inget om framtiden som jag just nu anser ar mycket oviss gallande australien. Borjar bli lite ont om kosingar. Och aven om vi nu "jobbar" pa en gard sa betyder det bara att vi far gratis mat och husrum. Inga utgifter=bra. Ingen lon=daligt. Whatever man far ta dagen som den kommer i detta stora, farliga land.
Idag tankte jag lite pa andreas, och sa vidare.
15-LOVE
Otherwise we are still looking for farms. And so on.
Hope to get some pic's up soon :)
how is everyone doing? I miss everyone, except the wankers.
Hope dudels dudeli is having a great holiday!!!! <3
Jag gillar po
