Settling

Life here soon settles into a pattern, you get up at 5am with the morning wake up call and the bus is at 6. There's no time, you don't have the energy and there really isn't a point in having a shower given that 5 minutes after you start work you're going to be filthy and sweaty as hell. We had a pretty good boss last week, we started at 6.30/7am-ish and worked until 'smoko' at 9.30 for half an hour. Then it's through until 12 when we stopped for an hour's lunch. You work the hardest in the morning because that's when it's cool enough to actually get stuff done. 1pm it's back to the fields again, most likely catching a lift on the back of the trailer. You stop to drink water any time you get a couple of seconds respite and you go through several bottles a day, we also had a water barrel strapped to the back of one of the trailers. 3.30pm we finish, gratefully and hitch a lift back up to the farm on the trailer again and it's in the Ute (and yes, we are in back country Oz, EVERYONE drives Utes) back to the bus stop where the bus from the backpackers picks us up at 4pm. Home by 5pm at the latest, shower, food, a beer and it's in bed by 8.30/9pm. I'm still bemused by the fact I'm getting up at 5am every day...