Blueberry fields forever 🌾🔷🎶

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I am exhausted, and smelly, and very content! Yoshi and I left Snoozemore behind for th open road, and made it to this little beach town by the name of Corindi, with little to no problems! Our car set up was put to the test along the drive by my first real Australian monsoon, and we passed with flying colours, I was actually pretty impressed seeing as everything on the roof racks are covered with a 3 dollar tarp. Found a prestine camping spot behind a gas station, and whipped up our first camping meal, vegetable pasta! It was pretty good, and tonight we made some vegetarian burgers, even tastier.  Only bad thing about this place is two nights in a row there's been what Yosh and I call "car guy" just a guy who literally sits in his driving seat and stares straight ahead all night... Creeps me OUT. 






Because of the rain we had a late start of our new job on the blueberry farm, thankfully it wasn't too hot of a day and was overcast and had a nice wind rolling through all day. We both picked 15 buckets, 9$ a kilo, and will be doing it until Wednesday and we will leave to the This and That concert in Newcastle for what I will know is going to be a nice little break. You wouldn't think picking blueberrys would be that exhausting but my back and knees are dead. That being said its a petty nice and cruisy job, Terry our boss has a little farm behind one of the biggest raspberry/blueberry operations we have ever seen run by a company. I like working for him because we got to know his 4 other employees and you don't feel like just a number. 



Snapshot of the major company's farm


End of the workday hands 👋

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  1. Sheila and Ernie's Travel BlogOctober 26, 2015 at 7:20 AM

    Sounds like hard work Hannah! But it will be an experience to remember when you are old and gray!!
    I've picked blueberries in the northern forest and they are pretty low to the ground. Hopefully your bushes are a little taller than the wild ones!
    On to the next adventure.
    You must be getting close to the Hunter valley. There's some pretty nice wine to taste there.
    Love and hugs Sheila and Ernie

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