First experience of bush fire (Mareeba - 27/09/2009)

It was smelling wood fire like all the time around here and then we started to see some ashes falling....

Here it is, big flames!! just down the caravan park...

Try to phone the fire brigade once again, they are becoming late!!

It is coming closer...

At last, here they are!!!

checking the last flames...

Extinguishing the last flames...

Thank you, bye!!

Forklift training (Mareeba - 25/09/2009)

Let's practice with real situation!! I makes it more stressful!!
I am sweating like hell to not drop this 3000$ palette of papaya...

Trip on the Waterfall Circuit (Millaa Millaa - 13/09/2009)

Hot air balloon sunrise (Mareeba - 08/09/2009)

''Mareeba is the hot air ballooning capital of the world'', that is what the visitors' guide says. The region's climate is just ideal for air action. Every morning when we start work we see hot
air balloons getting up with the sunrise over the shed.

Rock wallabies invasion at Granite Gorge (Mareeba - 06/09/2009)

The rock wallabies rock... At Granite Gorge Nature Park, only 10 kilometers
from Mareeba, we had the possibility to meet and feed this little friendly
fellows. They enjoyed to eat our dried fruits like nuts and dry bananas.

Fishing at the Baron River (Mareeba - 29/08/09)

We try to find ideas to get busy during the week end...
We need experience or there is no fish in the river....

Moto Race (Mareeba - 23/08/2009)

Paw Paw Picking (Mareeba - 19/08/2009)

What a lovely day for an outside job (and it is everyday sunshine for 2
weeks already).

We moved in!! (Mareeba - 13/08/2009)

We moved in a caravan as it is not so expensive and more comfortable than
the tent. We have three beds, a table, chairs, sink, microwave, boiler,
toaster, TV, electricity to charge our devices, etc...

Our Friend (Mareeba - 09/08/2009)

This caravan park is pet friendly.

Early morning @ work (Mareeba - 11/08/2009)

We have to get up at 5 to start to work at 6h30.
That's very hard but worth the great landscape we can see every morning!!!
About the work, finally, we are not harvesting coffee at all. The company
has other fruits: Banana, Papaya and Longan. Usually, We are picking Papaya
in the morning, then we pack them on the early afternoon and finish by
packing Longans (kind of lychees). We are happy with the atmosphere which is
very friendly, we have one 15min break in the morning, one 1/2h lunch break
and one 15min break on the afternoon. For more, the work is declared, so we
can count the days for asking our next visa.

City of promised work (Mareeba QLD - 08/08/2009)

We decided to continue our farm job search further inland and went for a day
trip to Mareeba, a known Rodeo City 60 km west of Cairns. In this area are
three coffee plantations and many other vegetables farms, where we left our
names and telephones numbers. The most promising stop, was at the Skybury
Coffee Plantation. A motivated waitress of the company owned restaurant
phoned directly the boss because she knew that he wanted to start the
harvest the following week. After many phone calls and emails to show our
interest, we got a positive answer with not a lot of information: I have
work for you. Come on Monday 10th August, 6h25 to the shed next to the
coffee centre. We wonder what awaits us...

Butterfly Sanctuary (Kuranda - 07/08/2009)

After visiting the Barron Falls, we got hungry and went for lunch.
From our table we could see signs for attractions and this one attracted our
attentions.

You go in a closed area where there are hundreds of butterflies
everywhere!!!

Weird insect (Kuranda - 07/08/2009)