Today we woke up at 7 o’clock and wondered, that the host hadn’t us woken. :/ Then I went to have a shower and had a chat to the girl from the reception, who told me, that we have to be ready at 9 o’clock for pumpkin-picking. 🙂 So we were ready at 9 o’clock but didn’t start before 12. :)We left our car in front of the hostel and drove to the farm together with 3 other guys. First of all we had to pick pumpkins in the field ( very annoying movement). I was totally covered in sweat  (because of the heat 34°C) and the suncream stung in my eyes :P. See the pictures :).

After that we went to the sheds to pack the pumpkins into boxes.

After 5 hours work the host said, that we should finish for today, and we drove back to our car.

I went jogging and prepared dinner (rice with meat and tomato sauce). Then I talked to the host and he said, that every day he will give me a new job on a different farm. Monday I will start to work on a mangofarm separated from Jan. 🙂 But that’s okay, because both of us need some time for ourselves 🙂 Today I earned 20 AUD per hour, so I will be able to save a lot of money for the rest of my trip around the world. 🙂

Today we woke up at Jimmy’s  (tried his motorcycle )  left to Derek’s home again for breakfast and ask him whether he possibly had an air mattress for us because we had lost ours. :/

Again he served us a nice breakfast and helped us with other stuff, but hadn’t got an air mattress.  Jan and I decided to leave the place and headed off for Ayr (because we heard that they were offering lots of farmwork-jobs over there ). It took us 6 hours of endless driving (once we nearly ran out of petrol, but then we saw a petrol station … CLOSED) In the end we just made it.  We arrived in Ayr and were totally exhausted.

First we tried to check in at a caravan park but it was booked out. Then we asked at a working hostel. But it was also booked out. Fortunately the host told us that there is plenty of work to get done and that  we can stay and sleep in our car for a low price. 🙂 We will have to pick mangoes ( 12 ½ hours a day) but well paid: 20 AUD per hour. 🙂 So I won’t be able to write too much in my blog for 2 or 3 weeks, because here we won’t have internet (contact only by my phone). 🙂 I will tell you later, guys,  about this forthcoming „hard“ job. But there is one thing I really want to tell you now: it is so much hotter here than in the south (32°C).

The next day we continued our trip to the Beach of 1770. 🙂

After 2 hours drive we came to Lake Awonga. As soon as we had arrived there we jumped into the water and enjoyed a refreshing swim in the nude. 🙂

First there was not a soul to be seen, amazing. 🙂 After a while I spotted a man next to a boat and some kajaks and I asked him whether he could lend us the kajaks for free. He said yes  ( because it isn’t holiday season in Queensland) and we started our water trip. The lake is huge and we decided to have a rest for sunbathing in the middle of the lake. 🙂 It was so amazingly peaceful, no noises, just water lapping against the boats, sunshine on our heads and the beautiful landscape surrounding us. After having spent some moments of such wonderful relaxation  we started a little race in our boats and I won (it was very similar to rowing :)) We had a lot of fun.  We  had  to dry our wet clothes in the sun. 🙂 At 3’o clock we continued our trip and after a two hours drive arrived at Derek’s home. 🙂 He is a friendly old retired  guy who is living in a big house in a kind of  minimalistic style. See the photos. 😛

Although he cooked us a dinner and we spent some nice time together we decided to move to another place ( we could quickly arrange) because if we stayed at his place we would have had to sleep in our car in his yard. But we had the chance to sleep at Jimmy’s house, were we could sleep inside. So at about 9 o’clock we said good-bye to Derek and drove off to Jimmy’s home. Another very friendly guy. We had a lot of fun together and enjoyed the conversation with him. Later we spent our time watching a film together.

On Tuesday we left Alex’s house and continued our roadtrip to Agnes Water.

On the road we picked up Keno, a German hitchhiker, and gave him a lift to Agnes Water.

In Agnes Water we went to a job-agency and applied for all kinds of different jobs. Then we went to the beach but couldn’t go for a swim because of stingers. 🙁

The beach wasn’t as nice as the ones we had been used to (we have already seen so much better ones :/) so we drove to the town  1770 (historical city because of the explorer James Cook) and came to stop at a car park because of the beautiful sunset. We had dinner, watched a film and went to sleep. Have a look at the photos 🙂 Tomorrow we will stay at another couchsurfer-host in Rockhampton (2 hours drive  :))

I hope you are all fine and love to read my blog.

G’day fellows

The last few next days we had been  searching for jobs, enjoyed the weather and cooked meals. One day our host picked us up and took us – together with the two Finnish girls – for a ride through Bundaberg. He showed us the beach, we visited several  farms to ask for a job, but nobody seemed to need our help. So we drove home, played darts and cards, and enjoyed ourselves.:)

The last two days we had been couchsurfing at Alex‘ house, the 21- year- old mechanic and just enjoyed our life. We ate good meals, had a lot of fun, searched for jobs (dialled any possible numbers, talked to Alex‘ friends to find a job), met new people (a Croatian couchsurfer and two Finnish girls), went for a swim in the pool and had a wonderful BBQ at the house of Alex‘ Mum (maybe a friend of hers can give us a job:))

Today Alex and all his  couchsurfers (we are five) will go to the beach where we might  see some turtles and tonight perhaps we will  have a little party at his house. 🙂

See the photos 😛

After we had tried the whole day to find a job but hadn’t been successful (had looked at numerous ads, called any number of any farm)  we decided to continue our roadtrip. We drove 3 hours to Bundaberg, and hoped that we would find a job over there (a town with a lot of farms around).  We had arranged a couchsurfing-place in Bundaberg for us, when we had   arrived nearby, we faced our first bad experience. We had just parked our car  in a pretty dark corner, when anopther car drove by, and we found an egg smashed against our window. The car disappeared. First we thought it was a joke but the car returned and came to stop just behind us (three guys in hoodies got off the car).  I decided to drive a bit further down the road. So we did, and finally found our couchsurfing-host, who started at once to help us to wash our car after we had  told him the story. He’s a 21- year old mechanic who lives in his own flat. 🙂 He prepared a dinner for us, offered us WIFI and we had a really interesting conversation with him. 🙂

I’m sure we will sleep well here tonight and we will continue to look for a job tomorrow. 😛

Today we returned from Fraser Island since it was raining and because we probably had visited all the nice places over there. 🙂

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After 2 hours driving we came to the parking lot, where my car had been parked. It was still there and we stuffed our luggage (only one backpack) into the trunk, said goodbye to the two Germans and went to buy some food and drinks.

Then I had to go to a dentist’s to check, whether I’ve got a hole in my tooth (lots of pain for two weeks!). I made an appointment at 4:15 pm and the dentist checked my teeth. Luckily it wasn’t a hole. My teeth have become very sensitive, probably because of the different types of food/drinks I have been consuming here.  The doctor gave me lots of toothpaste for my teeth and a bill for almost 200 dollars. :/ Dental treatment is very expensive over here.

This night we will sleep in the car, because we haven’t found a couchsurfing-host or a wwoofing-host in Noosa. 🙁 Don’t worry!  Jan and I know by now what to do in such a situation: Watch a film in the car. (Luckily I’ve got my netbook with me :))

On Monday  we decided to drive to Lake McKenzie to go for a swim ( it’s forbidden to swim in the sea on Fraser Island because of venomous jellyfish. :/ ). But we noticed that after we had already been swimming in the sea for several^^ Everything’s okay 🙂 I am still alive. 😛 When going on driving to the lake we had to pass a big pit ( on the beach) and the engine of the 4WD stalled. I was down and out, got stuck right next to the sea :/. Jan and I got out of the car and tried to find somebody to help us. But nobody was there. We had to return without a solution. The engine of the 4WD was still not running. After 5 hopeless minutes in our car and being in a very bad mood , suddenly a truck came  along the beach and stopped in front of us. The guys wanted to know what’s wrong with our car. Together we got the engine started again, it made a terrible noise but one guy said, that we had to keep the engine running because it was water inside. So we did. He was right. After two hours driving we finally  arrived at the lake without any more problems. We were really lucky and had a lot of fun. See the photos, guys.

Today we decided to do a big „sight-seeing“ trip on Fraser Island. We had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the day. Have a look at the photos. 😛