Australia Sunset

So I set my new camera up to get a time lapse sunset here at the farm. The time lapse video is still processing, but I managed to pull this frame out because it just looks cool.

I'm getting a vacation!

It looks like in the next few days we'll all be getting a week off here at the farm. Harvest doesn't start until april 10th, and it looks like all the ground prep will likely be done in the next 4 or 5 days which will give us all time to go have a holiday. I'm thinking of going down to Sydney for that time though I've been told that I should go to Byron Bay as well. The problem is that after harvest I'll be buying my manager's Mitsubishi Pajaro and traveling around the country in it, and my plans are to go North for the winter, which means I won't likely be going to Sydney after harvest though I will be going to Byron Bay. I think I've pretty much set my mind to go to Sydney for the week off.

There are a couple of Canadian girls on the farm that are working as nanny's and they come over and party with us on occasion. Last night was one of the those occasions as we had today (Sunday) off. It looks as though we've had the past few Sundays off, which has been kind of nice. The only problem with having days off is that there really isn't all that much to do around here other than work, so when we get a day off we all just end up getting loaded drunk and using the day off to recover which is cool too. Last night I drank a heap a wine, which worked pretty well. Beer and Liquor are pretty expensive around here, but I found a 4 liter box of wine for ten bucks, which is pretty awesome. It does the job.

Since irrigation has ended we've just been doing random work around the getting the fields ready for harvest. Yesterday I spend the whole day on a tractor fixing all the roads with a drag bucket, which was pretty sweet. I ended up listening to an audio book for 12 hours. William Faulkner. The Sound and the Furry. I haven't finished it, but if I drag bucket tomorrow I will for sure.

Here are a few pictures. Cheers

Driving the tractor

Sunrise

John Deer 7730

Driving around the farm

Getting Drunk with the guys, and the Canadian Girls

VIDEO: Cotton Farming in Australia Siphon Flood Irrigation

Last night a bunch of us went to the pub because we had today off. After I woke up I had some time to put together this video that I promised. So here you have it. 

Remember that this was shot with a shit point-and-shoot camera. I'll be getting a better video camera here soon, so be expecting some better quality videos in the future. 

Cheers

Red Belly Black Snakes, Eastern Brown Snakes, Siphon Flood Irrigation, And Cotton farming in Australia

Things down here are going very well. I've been pretty busy with work, with a week average being around 80 hours. It's pretty nice, there isn't much else to do, and the money is good. I took a few pictures and also took some videos with the shit camera that I have, so hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have a short little video of the farm work. Until then, here are a few pictures of me throwing siphons and the beautiful sunsets.

I'm hoping that in the next month or so I'll get a couple days off and head to Sydney or Brisbane and pick up a vehicle. If I had a car before I left the farm, I would be able to use the workshop to set it out how I want. They have a welder and wood working tools that would come in handy when trying to set up a backpacker ride.

The pictures of me throwing siphons are frames from the video I shot, which isn't great quality. The picture of the snake is a Red Belly Black Snake, which is one of the most deadly snakes in the world. I took these pictures of it before we beat the shit out of it with a post. I also almost got bit by a baby Eastern Brown Snake which is the 2nd most venomous snake in the world. It missed though and I didn't have time to take a pictures. They are very aggressive, and while it was coming after me, he didn't see Levi, who smashed him with a board.

The girl is my friend Leija, who was in Moree for work. We met at the pub. She was in town because Moree was declared a natural disaster because of the floods and she works for the government and had to come out in order to process claims. She is from Sydney.