Now we know what's wwoofing like!
After being locked in Alice without car, while we were waiting for the relocation one, we decided to do some wwoofing and get dirty in a farm! So we started working in Bond Springs, a huge cattle station (1500 km2) 20 min from Alice Springs, helping with the cattle work, painting, gardening and house hold chores.
The first week was quite exhausting, 10h per day under the sun with the cows, doing drafting (separating them for selling after) - under Grant instructions - and helping with marking the small cows/bulls and castrating the males! hehe (was funny to see Grant or Ben cutting and throwing the testicles of the poor animal in the air). We spent our spare time going to the pool or doing bird watching...
The second week was more relaxing, the cattle work was done (almost 500 cows sold), and our new job was painting Ben's truck in red, blue and white (Boris was happy...french flag...) and putting some manure in the lawns. Also we could spend more time with Ben and Laura what was great and listen to Ben Slip on live!
The food was good, the family also and the place quite and nice.
After being locked in Alice without car, while we were waiting for the relocation one, we decided to do some wwoofing and get dirty in a farm! So we started working in Bond Springs, a huge cattle station (1500 km2) 20 min from Alice Springs, helping with the cattle work, painting, gardening and house hold chores.
The first week was quite exhausting, 10h per day under the sun with the cows, doing drafting (separating them for selling after) - under Grant instructions - and helping with marking the small cows/bulls and castrating the males! hehe (was funny to see Grant or Ben cutting and throwing the testicles of the poor animal in the air). We spent our spare time going to the pool or doing bird watching...
The second week was more relaxing, the cattle work was done (almost 500 cows sold), and our new job was painting Ben's truck in red, blue and white (Boris was happy...french flag...) and putting some manure in the lawns. Also we could spend more time with Ben and Laura what was great and listen to Ben Slip on live!
The food was good, the family also and the place quite and nice.
That's an extra picture of our 1h work recolecting cans (mostly beer cans from aboriginal people) for the recycling centre which gave us a total of $50 (5 cents/can, 1000 cans)!!! uuuu! All money welcome :)
PS: the fancy white is not our new car (that we would like to have...), it was only a hired one. Toyota camry, ves per on!
PS: the fancy white is not our new car (that we would like to have...), it was only a hired one. Toyota camry, ves per on!
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