After 3 days off we have had 2 days at work, if you can call them days. We worked from 7am until 12:30pm yesterday and from 7am until 9:30am today so we aren't even earning enough to pay for our days here. There is no work either tomorrow because it is going to rain and it affects the sugar in the grapes or something technical like that. Lou cut herself again this morning and I caught the palm of my hand in the nippers so I have a big blood blister that kills. W...

We had a day at the beach on Friday, it was really quiet with not many people there so it was nice. The sea is so clear so we may take the snorkels down this afternoon and see what we can see. Yesterday we went to Cape Leuwin lighthouse, the most south-westerly point of Australia. Then we spotted a maze on the way back in the middle of the forest so we decided to have a race to the middle. Lou cheated and kept crawling through the fences instead of going round t...

We did our first days work yesterday, picking grapes. It was the hardest days work we have ever done. We got up at 5:30 and worked from 7am until 2pm without a break. It was so hot and the grapes were so tricky to pick. There were some people going round picking the biggest bunches and so the rest of us had to go back over the vines they had done and get all the small bunches off. We were paid by the bucket so it was hard to fill buckets when all the big bunches ...