SORRY SORRY SORRY!!!! The bush has less internet access than Cambodia!!
Very quickly here is a breif update of our first few weeks in West Australia. We landed in Perth on the 2nd of June and imediatly started looking for work as we had heared that it was very hard to come by in these parts at the moment.
We also got in touch with a friend we met on our tour in China, Sue who very kindly put us up in her home in Rockingham just south of Perth. We stayed there for about 4 days and in that time fell in love completely with Perth and WA. The people are sooooo friendly and everything about the place made us feel completely relaxed even tho we were desperated to find work.
After a couple of days at the job agencies we managed to secure ourselves (with help form Anissa at Aussie Jobs!) work about 140km north of Perth.
We had a frantic Saturday in which to find a car and then drive up there.
As part of the job we are staying in the bush at a really cool place called Soulhaven which is a bushstay in the middle of nowhere!! It is incredible. A 2km drive down a dusty dirt road and then through a track in the bush with around
60 kangaroos
bouncing
around till you get to a small group of green shacks in a padock. It's stunning!!!
We worked on an olive grove for about 3 weeks picking olives in a big harvester, Lou driving the "heads" (the bits that beat the olives off the trees) and me carting in a tractor taking the olives from the harvester to the processing plant. 12 1/2 hour days and we loved every minute of it!!
Harvest has finished now and we have sourced new work on another farm tree planting...80,000 blue gums to be exact!! We drive a tractor all day towing a contraption in which one of us sits and every 5M drops a tree in the ground! Again, we love it!! We are learning so much about the farming and the farm machinery, I think we have driven around 8 different tractors so far!! Not to mention forklifts and other strange machinery!!
The weather is far colder than we realised it would be. In the evenings it is getting down to around 0deg and during the day it is still jeans, tshirt, jumper and coat!!
We have tasted the good old Blue Juice that the Indian Ocean has to offer...couple of really good surf sessions. Not too big but nice to wet our toes and get used to the power. We have a small break about 50km from where we are living in a place called Lancellin. Watched a nice few sets coming in over the outer reef at about 15ft or so which was cool. Only accessable by boat tho so not for us at the mo!!
As we said before, we absolutely love it here and every day we have to pinch ourselves to make sure we are really here. Most mornings we get to see the sunrise and then the sun set in the evening from the top of the hill where we are working. The thing that is most impressive (which I have heard other people say before but not really understood till we got here) is that the sky is soooooooo BIG!!! I suppose it is because it is so flat here that you can see for so far and the sky is so clear and blue. It's awesome!!!
So here are a few pics to see where we are and what we are doing.
PS: In order to save a bit of time I have shrunk the size of the pictures...let me know if it is still OK and not too small. If we need to we can revert to the bigger ones.
We had a frantic Saturday in which to find a car and then drive up there. 
As part of the job we are staying in the bush at a really cool place called Soulhaven which is a bushstay in the middle of nowhere!! It is incredible. A 2km drive down a dusty dirt road and then through a track in the bush with around 
60 kangaroos 
bouncing
around till you get to a small group of green shacks in a padock. It's stunning!!!
We worked on an olive grove for about 3 weeks picking olives in a big harvester, Lou driving the "heads" (the bits that beat the olives off the trees) and me carting in a tractor taking the olives from the harvester to the processing plant. 12 1/2 hour days and we loved every minute of it!!
Harvest has finished now and we have sourced new work on another farm tree planting...80,000 blue gums to be exact!! We drive a tractor all day towing a contraption in which one of us sits and every 5M drops a tree in the ground! Again, we love it!! We are learning so much about the farming and the farm machinery, I think we have driven around 8 different tractors so far!! Not to mention forklifts and other strange machinery!!
As we said before, we absolutely love it here and every day we have to pinch ourselves to make sure we are really here. Most mornings we get to see the sunrise and then the sun set in the evening from the top of the hill where we are working. The thing that is most impressive (which I have heard other people say before but not really understood till we got here) is that the sky is soooooooo BIG!!! I suppose it is because it is so flat here that you can see for so far and the sky is so clear and blue. It's awesome!!!
