Rainy days at the farm

After two days of heavy rain the creek behind the farm was filled up with water. Normally it's completely dry! 

Because of the bad weather we had one day off and a lot of time for nonsense... May the force be with Jo to beat Nick!

Also the track which led from the farm to the Highway was flooded...

More impressions from our farm, part 2

Jo - the best lawnkeeper ever!! Jo took care of his lawn every day after work, Eva almost became jealous...

Yes - I AM THE BEST!!

Our home for 6 weeks - the slightly yellow hut was our "sleeping room", the building in the front included the kitchen and living room

Two days of heavy rain and all the seeds began to sprout

The french connection: Dam and Ben with Eva and Jo

Typically Ozzy: one rainbow is not enough 

Our "Christmas Tree" 

The bush 

Birdy, the cockatoo from the Homestead had a lot of fun with us, but he hated showers.... "What's what's what's what's up? What's wrong?" 

Rockmelons, third category (for the sheep)

 Trying to go back to Perth on New Year's Eve...

More impressions from our farm, part 1

 Bill's brother hunted two kangaroos, one for his dog and one for us

Rocky, the little melon... looks a bit like...???

The next pictures give an idea about the world of insects living with us: 

After a few days of heavy and unexpected rain the creek behind the homestead filled up a dam. So we could go swimming in the middle of the bush.

Small excursion on Boxing Day (2. Weihnachtsfeiertag) to the Canning Hills some kms away from the homestead. What a view!

In der Weihnachtsbäckerei gibt's so manche Schleckerei... Caro and Eva were baking Christmas cookies.

This was supposed to be our Christmas Dinner: a so called goanna, which is kind of a big lizard and which we hunted ourselves. We wanted to cook the goanna in the coals like the Aborigines usually do. But unfortunately the generator broke down and so the cool room got hot and we had to throw away the two goannas we caught. 

Jo, the slaughterer takes out the inner parts with a bended wire.

What is this?

Awesome!!

Better late than never - Our work at Wydgee Homestead

At the beginning some facts:
- Wydgee homestead is a farm 90kms south of Mt. Magnet
- name of the farmer: Bill Moses
- Bill leases from the state of Western Australia 140000ha land (that is true)
- Bill has to take care of 42 windmills that pump up the water for the animals and also the humans
- Mt. Magnet is the nearest town or better village (round about half  the size of Weißenbrunn)
- no mobilephone reception
- internet only for the farmer
- electricity is only available from the generator
- Bill grows on his farm: Rockmelons, watermelons, apricots, oranges, peaches and plums
- Bill is 56 and his third wife Kate is nearly have his age
- our average weekly working time: 52hours, seven days a week

And now the pictures of the homestead:

In this house was the living room and the kitchen for the backpackers... The house was like the rest of the whole farm totally fucked!!! It was destroyed by a wheely-wheely (an Australian tornado) one year ago and never rebuild.

The windmill that pumped up our water. In the foreground a lemon tree.

The chaotic workshop of Bill...

A very nice Mercedes truck... I think it was used the last time ten years ago...

A goanna! A kind of big lizard. In one of the next posts there will be a "hunting" story.

Eva´s best friend! The aggressive mutton! Eva was attacked by one of those. The end was a blue spot on her thigh.

Behind the homestead was the so called "rubbish tib"! There you can find everything! Cars, millions of cans and bottles, poison barrels and used oil barrels.

This was Bill´s and Kate´s house.

The vegetation in the bush and around the homestead.

The sign at the Great Northern Highway...

After the work was done we went by hitchhiking to Mt. Magnet and had some hours in the swimming pool in Mt. Magnet

A underwater camera is really a big fun...

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Better late than never - First impressions from Perth

Hello world, Hello Germany, Hello everybody!!! We are still alive... After a long time without Internet and with a lot of things to do, we find now the time to go on with this blog.

But by the way... We wish everybody a good and exciting year 2011.

What happened during our last two months? Yeah first there was a lot of organizing bullshit to do in Perth. After a few days we noticed that the exchange rate of the Euro is just shithouse and that we have to earn some Australian bugs that we can afford the 4WD car. So we got a job on a farm somewhere in the nowhere in the bush near to Mt Magnet where we were working for 6 weeks as rockmelon picker and packer. After those hard weeks we were back in Perth at New Year´s Eve. After we recovered from our hangover we searched for our 4WD car. And since 10 days we are on the track through OZ!!!! Yeah!
But one thing after the other. Here some impressions from our first two weeks in Down Under:

During our first two weeks in Perth we stayed at Simone (a german girl from Gerbrunn) and her australian husband Scottie. What to say?? Wa wa wi wa :-)
The time was great! THANKS so much for everything!

Sammy - Scottie's dog (very cute)

Billbo - Simone's dog (seems dangerous, but is in fact more than harmless)

Having a barbie - what else!

Mr. Duck was living also in Simone's and Scottie's garden

The DAY has come... time for the first of two Gamperts, that Jo carried through have the world...

So happy!

One of Jo's best moments during the world trip

During a geocache..

One bottle of Vodka for 30$ seems expensive, but for our Christmas aperitif we even payed almost 50$ in Mt Magnet... (by the way the exchange rate is about 1€ = 1,35$)

But we still have one stubby of beer every evening ;-)

Spring time in Perth