Im back on the road again with Herbert and he is looking good. I have changed the Feng Shui interior design with the bed at the back and cooking at the front. The big advantage is that the windsurfing board is now under the bed giving much needed headroom!
The work in Frankland River on the olive farm was alright, mainly consisting of driving a machine that shakes the trees for the olives to come off and beating the ones that don’t come off so easily with a big stick. The machine constantly broke down so plenty of time was spent fixing it. As its winter here now the mornings and nights were pretty cold, down to -3 one night. I was working 11 hour days 7 days a week most of the time and it was tough. We had to take 2 days off after 14 days in a row and I escaped to Albany to stay at some nice beaches and see the sea.
Albany is a nice town, not too big and quite a chilled out atmosphere. I imagine it’s a lot busier during the summer. I also visited a really nice little town called Denmark, quite an arty little place.
I have been working with Estonians on the olive farm, learning a few words and now have an Estonian travelling companion which means I need the more space that comes with the new layout of the van.
On the way back to Perth we called in to Will my mate form Yorkshire at the dairy farm he is working at, where he cooked spearfishing.us a dinner and I gave him a hand moving the bull. He has a nice place there with mandarin, orange and lemon trees and even a pet kangaroo!
Windsurfing!! On a whim I decided to have a look at Safety Bay and it was windy! It was very good to get on the water again even though it was a bit cold. It was ok at first because the sun was out but the wind dropped and it started to rain so I had to come in. Definitely need a wetsuit in the winter here.
Now I’m heading north again, first stop Lancelin for some surfing and spearfishing....
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