Quick update...

Hi, just a quick update.

We arrived in Shepparton almost 2 weeks ago to find out that the harvestingseason was later than usual. Normally it starts 1st of january, but because of the weather (not enough sunshine) the season is late. The harvestoffice said it would pick up in the next few days... but it didn't... hundreds of backpackers are in the area now waiting for work. Because of this we decided to make some phonecalls and found a job picking tomatoes near a small town (pop 490) called Merrigum. We picked tomatoes for 3 days. Tomatoes are known to be the hardest fruit to pick (no shelter from the sun, lot of stress to the back, hardly any money to be made in the beginning), and we found that out ourselves too :) After 3 days of picking there was a scheduled brake in the tomatoepicking of about a week to let the rest of the tomatoes ripe. We decided to try our luck again in Shepparton, and that's were i am now. Latest news is that by next week tuesday there should be plenty of work... although we've learnt not to take such news as the truth... so we're still keeping our eyes open for other opportunities. We have some contacts with big farms in the area, but they don't start work for another week or 2. Yesterday we went to a tempingoffice where we wrote ourselves up for some upcomming factorywork in the Sheppartonarea. Chances are we'll be able to work in a fruitprocessing factory for about a month.

In short: harvestseason is late. plenty of work available in a week or 2. done some work. looking for new work. fingers crossed :)