Hello all.This week has been slightly more exciting than last week, mostly because it rained so we got a day off! The sun is now shining again so I have able to spend my scheduled day off topping up my tan! I'm not really minding doing night shifts now I am in the routine, however, the tomatoes have stopped going so crazy so the shifts are shorter and more bearable, but routine is pretty much non-existant. We started to go in earlier the last couple of days which...

Not much to report this week, I ended up starting before Friday so didn't have much time to explore Bowen. Instead I have worked 7 night shifts. They broke me in gently with a nice 13hr shift squeezing tomatoes! There are 3 sections; rubbish, grading and packing. I was on rubbish so had to throw out ripe or diseased tomatoes, very tedious! We get a 10min break every 3hrs and 30mins after 6hrs, so its a lot of standing up, but hopefully after a few more shifts the...

I arrived in Bowen today and have managed to get a job starting next Friday. We will be packing tomatoes for up to 12hrs depending on the number of tomatoes that have been picked. When the factory is in full swing it runs 24hrs a day so we will be rotating between day and night shifts! Sounds like it will be hard and hot work, with lots of lovely bugs, but at least it won't be out in the very hot sun! Hopefully if we get the hours we can earn $1000 a week and it'...

I arrived in Airlie beach on Sunday evening. That night we went out for dinner and drinks with everyone on the bus. We spent most of Monday shopping and chilling out at the hostel. On Tuesday it got exciting when we set off on a sailing trip round the Whitsunday islands. The boat I was meant to be on broke so we had to go on another 1 & set off a bit late. Therefore we only did a couple of hours sailing to get to the spot we were staying the night and watched...

I have spent the last two days doing quite a lot of travelling. We left 1770 early yesterday morning and travelled through the great dividing range to the outback (central Queensland). We arrived at Kroombit cattle station for lunch (a yummy steak!). Kroombit is a 26km squared ranch with 1000 cattle, goats and horses. Small in comparison to the largest ranch in the world, also in oz, which is the size of Switzerland! They only have one type of cattle, brahman, fr...