Chaffery's Farm - Woorinen South

(1) Bill and his loyal companion, (2) Nectarine Trees, (3) me on a tractor.

Takes about an hour to pick a row of nectarines/peaches. Picking Nectarines and Peaches are probably the easiest fruit you can pick, but can get a bit tedious, there wasn't one night that I didn't keep picking peaches & nectarines in my sleep. You work in 35-42 degree heat. The day starts at 6:30am and finishes around 3pm, but can sometimes be cut shorter due to extreme heat or when there is no more ripened fruit to pick. Chaffery's was a really decent place to work, the people were friendly, the boss wasn't nasty at all, and they let me "have a go" even though I'd never picked fruit before. There was one guy who couldn't stop talking about sex as soon as other's weren't listening, but all in all, it was still a great place to work. I was also allowed to ride the tractor on the 2nd last day which was a lot of fun - hope one of the other farms lets me get back on it! :)

(1) Jackie & Jade in Nectarine trees (2) Jade & Jackie on/near tractor

Jackie & Jade are 2 Koreans who I worked with on the farm, they are a couple of friendly guys who I hope to meet up with one day again in the future. We all left the farm at the same time. They were splitting and heading to Melbourne & Perth then going back home to Korea.