A big update for you as we are not sure when we will get internet again. I am sick again with a cold.
It looks as though our time at the farm is coming to an end. It feels like we have been here for years. We are sad to leave the friendships we have made but eager to get on with the traveling and see what else Australia has to offer.
The weather is freezing. We constantly feel cold. It gets down to the minus' over night (-1, -2) and only gets to a high of 15. You may think "awww poor babies" but remember that you have central heating and here they do not. You are cold to the bone and its rare that you find a place to warm up. Luckily, we have been around the house all day today so we were able to keep a fire going in the house. So this is our first warm night in a long time. Usually we are curled up on the couch with a blanket.
Darryl and Donna raise baby joeys that have been left without a mom because a car has hit them. It is joey season, so usually if you see a kangaroo on the side of the road, they probably had a baby joey in them. Darryl and Donna have not had any babies while we have been here but have decided to start again. Today, we were dropping off mega bins at a massive market garden and there was a kangaroo on the side of the road. Darryl pulled over and came back with a little baby joey, unfortuneately it was also hit in the accident. I held it for the whole trip, the body was still warm so the accident was fresh. I kept hoping that it would come back to life in my arms. It was so cute and little. It's legs twice as long as the rest of its body.
I have had quite alot of teaching at Lancelin lately, I will miss that school. The last day I taught at the school I had the opportunity to play footy (AFL) with the teachers in a teachers vs students game at lunch time. What a good time. I am really starting to like footy.
David Finally started to do something constructive on the van other than walking around it sighing and leaning on strategic areas. Saying things like...we need to do that, I need this. So that's on its way and we also had some confirmation from Daryll that he will be helping us with it later in the week. Excellent news.
We spent the week end in Perth Staying at the Vanzetti sisters houses. We were looked after pampered and to an extent faught over as to who's house we were staying at. It was a great week end and we got some much needed supplies for the van. We drove back to the farm on Sunday night wrapped in Duvets and blankets as we don't have any Heating in the van.
Well there is our update for now.
Holly and David
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Regans Ridge Olives
Dear Blog Readers,
So we're nearing our time at the farm, down to our last week. And Having done an entire season of Harvesting, from day one we were there for every single Olive that fell and were there for every bead of sweat and Painful early morning that went into creating a season of Table Olives and Olive Oil.I think therefore that we may be eligible to make a sales pitch and convince the non Olive believers and the believers that you will never taste a finer Olive product than that of which are a part of.
You don't need to look hard to find what good Olives can do for you. They are a very grounding food and have proven benefits to your health. Both products are excellent sources of Antioxidants, Polyphenols Good Fats and an array of goodness that you shouldn't pass up. Most Olive Oil in retail comes from Europe and anything that you buy in a superstore will be mised with other oils, the same with Olives. In stores the Olives they sell have been treated with the type of chemicals you use to clean your bathroom. Costic Soda this speeds up the curing process.Olive Oil is just so Good For you. Even better is an Organic, Cold Pressed Extra Virgin Olive oil. Many people will go for extra virgin oil and don't regard what the process is. Organic speaks for itself...No harmful chemicals, no residual nasties in your body after you've consumed it. Cold pressed is the process of seperating the oil from the fruit. Many processes involve usinmg heat to extract maximum amount of oil from the Olive, but as you heat Olive oil it loses much of it's goodness, so cold pressing while produces a smaller yield, produces a finer Oil. Extra Virgin Simply means that it is the Olive Oil in its purest form, crushed Olive and Seed...not crushed pulp or rendered mulch. Just pure squashed fruit.
The Farm is also a good cause to support. Catherine is an excellent mother to three girls the youngest being 12. Things here are done passionatly to a fine degree, The table Olives are done to an age old Sicillian method, picked by hand to ensure quality. The Oil Olives carefully shaken and taken as soon as possible to the press. It's a no-brainer. We will be supporting Catherin for years. And We'd like to encourage you to do so. The Olives & Oil you will receive will have our Blood sweat and Tears attached to it.
We sell jars of Olives for $9 (Mild Chilly & Garlic, Plain & Tomato & Basil), And bottles of Oil Ranging from $10 - $22 (Mild & Fruity and Moore River Blend) We've calculated the postage into the product price, on small orders the will be a charge of $10 per Kilo (Or If you need a large order Prices of Oil and Olives Will drop and Postage will be $10 Per Kilo)
Thanks For your Support :)
David & Holly
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Inner Most Thoughts of a Troubled Lamb
Hello Dear Blog readers. This is David, I haven’t blogged for a while so bear with me if I’m a bit Rusty.
So recently we’ve been taken up with lots of work new arrivals and in Holly’s case some trips to the city. This is where she is now, so I am sat out on the swinging chair overlooking the Grove basking in the warm breeze and listening to Sufjan Stevens. It is winter here now and the morning are sometimes bitterly cold. Because the House is not well insulated we have to keep a fire going all night so that the house is bearable in the morning. Even then it is cold, and our short drive to wherever we need to be during the day is spent in layers of jackets and shivering kneecaps. Not in anyway the romantic idea anyone has of Western Australia.
Though during the day from around 10am, or when your blood starts pumping it warms up into a beautiful summers day back home. We still cannot complain about the weather.
Our Pet lamb Betsy is bleeting in the background as she has been since 6 this morning. She’s been fed burped and I keep asking her whats up but she gives me a puzzled look. She seems to have conversations with passing sheep. I amuse myself with thoughts of what she might say…
“I‘ve got these idiots fooled fred, all I have to do is limp around a little and they feed and baby me” or in a lassie fashion “What‘s the weather going to be like?” Lamb says to elder “Well there is an occluded front coming from the east so rain for a short while before turning fine into the evening”
I often like to think she’s a very smart lamb and knows how to manipulate us with her eyes and melt our hearts with her playful nature, but then I remind myself that she tried to eat the trampoline the other day and managed to pierce her lip while trying to eat a metal coiled spring. Silly little lamb. She does try and eat the chair cushions too, and come to think of it anything green. Little Betsy….
So….We got our Van, the Gender confused Bernabara. Bernard in attitude and Barbara in Shape. I was like a little school kid yesterday when the drivers side rear view mirror arrived enabling us to drive it on the road now. We also attempted to change a headlight that was cracked, but discovered that almost the whole front of the vehicle will have to be manipulated to gain access..a job for another time maybe.
Holly has had some more work this week teaching the littlies at Lancelin. She leaves around 7:45 every morning and makes the trip to town. It’s not a bad location to work, the place looks brand new and is less than a minute walk from the beach. Maybe she doesn’t work and simply lays on the beach all day. She comes back around 4 and helps around the farm untill we finish. I think she enjoys it, I can imagine it’s a very draining job but rewarding. I thnk she enjoys the cultural difference in these kids to the ones back home, lets just hope she can convince them to get her in more often so we can save as much as possible.
My job is going well too, not nearly as rewarding, skilled or interesting as Holly’s but I get to meet a lot of people and a free Iced Coffee every day. This is worth it…Iced coffee is a small vice of mine.
So on the calendar there is not much else coming up…It is someones birthday very soon….I wonder…
We leave the farm and our friends around the 7th of July, and go on our merry way north to pastures new. It’s very exciting and very daunting. This is of course our Last big Jolly untill we finish in Australia. The Last one, should be finished up around September October time, and then we will be saving up for our tickets home. Sad times…Though I think by then we’ll both be ready to try something new. Though Western Australia, in Particular Regans Ford has become a second home. And somewhere I think we could both live.
Thankyou for reading, We shall be posting again soon, and with more frequency in the coming weeks and months with having more to talk about.
David & Holly
So recently we’ve been taken up with lots of work new arrivals and in Holly’s case some trips to the city. This is where she is now, so I am sat out on the swinging chair overlooking the Grove basking in the warm breeze and listening to Sufjan Stevens. It is winter here now and the morning are sometimes bitterly cold. Because the House is not well insulated we have to keep a fire going all night so that the house is bearable in the morning. Even then it is cold, and our short drive to wherever we need to be during the day is spent in layers of jackets and shivering kneecaps. Not in anyway the romantic idea anyone has of Western Australia.
Though during the day from around 10am, or when your blood starts pumping it warms up into a beautiful summers day back home. We still cannot complain about the weather.
Our Pet lamb Betsy is bleeting in the background as she has been since 6 this morning. She’s been fed burped and I keep asking her whats up but she gives me a puzzled look. She seems to have conversations with passing sheep. I amuse myself with thoughts of what she might say…
“I‘ve got these idiots fooled fred, all I have to do is limp around a little and they feed and baby me” or in a lassie fashion “What‘s the weather going to be like?” Lamb says to elder “Well there is an occluded front coming from the east so rain for a short while before turning fine into the evening”
I often like to think she’s a very smart lamb and knows how to manipulate us with her eyes and melt our hearts with her playful nature, but then I remind myself that she tried to eat the trampoline the other day and managed to pierce her lip while trying to eat a metal coiled spring. Silly little lamb. She does try and eat the chair cushions too, and come to think of it anything green. Little Betsy….
So….We got our Van, the Gender confused Bernabara. Bernard in attitude and Barbara in Shape. I was like a little school kid yesterday when the drivers side rear view mirror arrived enabling us to drive it on the road now. We also attempted to change a headlight that was cracked, but discovered that almost the whole front of the vehicle will have to be manipulated to gain access..a job for another time maybe.
Holly has had some more work this week teaching the littlies at Lancelin. She leaves around 7:45 every morning and makes the trip to town. It’s not a bad location to work, the place looks brand new and is less than a minute walk from the beach. Maybe she doesn’t work and simply lays on the beach all day. She comes back around 4 and helps around the farm untill we finish. I think she enjoys it, I can imagine it’s a very draining job but rewarding. I thnk she enjoys the cultural difference in these kids to the ones back home, lets just hope she can convince them to get her in more often so we can save as much as possible.
My job is going well too, not nearly as rewarding, skilled or interesting as Holly’s but I get to meet a lot of people and a free Iced Coffee every day. This is worth it…Iced coffee is a small vice of mine.
So on the calendar there is not much else coming up…It is someones birthday very soon….I wonder…
We leave the farm and our friends around the 7th of July, and go on our merry way north to pastures new. It’s very exciting and very daunting. This is of course our Last big Jolly untill we finish in Australia. The Last one, should be finished up around September October time, and then we will be saving up for our tickets home. Sad times…Though I think by then we’ll both be ready to try something new. Though Western Australia, in Particular Regans Ford has become a second home. And somewhere I think we could both live.
Thankyou for reading, We shall be posting again soon, and with more frequency in the coming weeks and months with having more to talk about.
David & Holly
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Welcome home, Bernard.
Happy June! Boy does time fly. My birthday is only in a couple weeks! I cannot believe it. I have just come in from taking care of a little 6 week old lamb on the verandah. When Darryl and the other wwoofers (I was teaching in Gingin today) were mustering sheep today he found this little one with two sore legs on the same side. The mom has also abandoned it. Darryl took it home tonight where him and Donna will bottle feed it and give it some antibiotics. She may become a pet.
Last weekend I went into the city with Donna to get the VAN and to watch her son, Shannon, play a footy (Australian Football League) game. Friday was also Donna and her twin sister, Jacquie's birthday. So after spending the evening at a school that Shannon is looking into for next year, we went out for dinner with Jacquie's family and Tanya's family. It was soo good to see our "Australian" family again. It makes it that much harder to want to leave here.
The next day Donna and I went to pick up the van. We arrived at the car lot and there was only one van in the lot. It was ugly. An 90s van with the ugly stripe across the side. But I wasn't going to complain, it was a van, Darryl loved it so it had to be good. I went and signed all the paperwork and the guy walked us out to a different van, much nicer looking van! EEEK! I also found out that its actually a 1998 and that its a Toyota Townace. My first vehicle that I own on paper and its in Australia! haha. I will say though, it is mine AND DAVID'S vehicle. We are very excited to fix it up and start travelling with it. We also may have picked up a friend with us, Kendra has fallen in love with our vehicle and may be joining us.
Shannon's footy game was awesome. His team won and they were also missing all their good players (they were playing in a league above for the week). Shannon scored lots of points for his team. He is probably one of the better players on his team and he is also the youngest. This game was more exciting to watch then the actual AFL.
On Sunday Darryl and Donna had us over for lunch with Donna's boys. We then headed over to the block to play with the baby calves and sheep. We had a bonfire and went fishing for marron. Darryl also brought both of his motor bikes so Kendra and I took one and went off alone all over the property! How fun. What a farm girl I have become.
That about sums up the excitement for the past couple weeks. Still haven't got photos up yet. Will get some eventually.
Holly and David x
Last weekend I went into the city with Donna to get the VAN and to watch her son, Shannon, play a footy (Australian Football League) game. Friday was also Donna and her twin sister, Jacquie's birthday. So after spending the evening at a school that Shannon is looking into for next year, we went out for dinner with Jacquie's family and Tanya's family. It was soo good to see our "Australian" family again. It makes it that much harder to want to leave here.
The next day Donna and I went to pick up the van. We arrived at the car lot and there was only one van in the lot. It was ugly. An 90s van with the ugly stripe across the side. But I wasn't going to complain, it was a van, Darryl loved it so it had to be good. I went and signed all the paperwork and the guy walked us out to a different van, much nicer looking van! EEEK! I also found out that its actually a 1998 and that its a Toyota Townace. My first vehicle that I own on paper and its in Australia! haha. I will say though, it is mine AND DAVID'S vehicle. We are very excited to fix it up and start travelling with it. We also may have picked up a friend with us, Kendra has fallen in love with our vehicle and may be joining us.
Shannon's footy game was awesome. His team won and they were also missing all their good players (they were playing in a league above for the week). Shannon scored lots of points for his team. He is probably one of the better players on his team and he is also the youngest. This game was more exciting to watch then the actual AFL.
On Sunday Darryl and Donna had us over for lunch with Donna's boys. We then headed over to the block to play with the baby calves and sheep. We had a bonfire and went fishing for marron. Darryl also brought both of his motor bikes so Kendra and I took one and went off alone all over the property! How fun. What a farm girl I have become.
That about sums up the excitement for the past couple weeks. Still haven't got photos up yet. Will get some eventually.
Holly and David x
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
2000 Toyota HiAce! :D
Well, it seems that the days here are very repetitive and very boring to share every detail with the rest of the world. So that is why there is a lack of blogs. We have pretty much finished harvesting olives, but have taken a break from them for now. So it's back to pruning and doing other random things like before Christmas...
In exciting news though, Darryl has been helping David and I find a vehicle to travel up North in. He has been looking up different websites and bringing the new found vehicles to us each day. He drove us around Joondalup the other day showing us all the used car lots as well as test driving an ex-freezer truck. He even tracked a few vans on E-bay for us. He is a car-a-holic. As Donna put so well, most people have an obsession with buying clothes, Darryl has an obsession with buying cars. ANYWAYS, yesterday he called me very excited because he had just test drove a van and thought it would be perfect for David and I. He asked about the price range and then told me how amazing it was. It was so cute to hear him so excited about it. The fact that Darryl went out of his way to go to a used car lot (while he was in the city for the day) and look around for us is awesome just in itself. David's boss, Geoff, has offered to take him on Friday afternoon to the city to go and pick up the van. Darryl, Geoff (and his wife, Lisa) have all already brainstormed what they would think would be amazing to do to the van. I might add that in Darryl's younger days he bought a van and fixed it all up for him to go travelling around Australia AND Geoff and Lisa live in a massive van that they have kitted out to travel in. They are originally from Tasmania and have made it this far in the travels and have been here for a few years. As you can tell I am really excited about it. We will get photos up as soon as we can.
tata.
Holly and David
In exciting news though, Darryl has been helping David and I find a vehicle to travel up North in. He has been looking up different websites and bringing the new found vehicles to us each day. He drove us around Joondalup the other day showing us all the used car lots as well as test driving an ex-freezer truck. He even tracked a few vans on E-bay for us. He is a car-a-holic. As Donna put so well, most people have an obsession with buying clothes, Darryl has an obsession with buying cars. ANYWAYS, yesterday he called me very excited because he had just test drove a van and thought it would be perfect for David and I. He asked about the price range and then told me how amazing it was. It was so cute to hear him so excited about it. The fact that Darryl went out of his way to go to a used car lot (while he was in the city for the day) and look around for us is awesome just in itself. David's boss, Geoff, has offered to take him on Friday afternoon to the city to go and pick up the van. Darryl, Geoff (and his wife, Lisa) have all already brainstormed what they would think would be amazing to do to the van. I might add that in Darryl's younger days he bought a van and fixed it all up for him to go travelling around Australia AND Geoff and Lisa live in a massive van that they have kitted out to travel in. They are originally from Tasmania and have made it this far in the travels and have been here for a few years. As you can tell I am really excited about it. We will get photos up as soon as we can.
tata.
Holly and David
Sunday, May 16, 2010
"Oh, Life on the farm is kinda laid back"
Today is a beautiful Autumn day in Western Australia. It is about 15 degrees, warm in the sun and cool in the shade. I am sat on the swing on the verandah enjoying the sounds of nature with my pal, Prince, laying beside me. It has started to cool down with last night hitting a low of 2 degrees. The average temperature for the past two weeks has been a high of 21 with lows of about 5 degrees at night. We have been starting the fire in the house for the cool night time (our source of heat). Yesterday David, Kendra and I took a trip to Lancelin. David got his hair cut and Kendra and I walked along the beach. On the way back to the farm we stopped off at Darryl’s and had a quick visit with him and Donna (and watched Jessica Watson (the 16 year old who just finished a solo sail around the world) reach the Sydney Harbour). Darryl also had a cow who had twins this past week so we went over to his block and had a visit with all of the cattle. I got to pet one of the twins. Darryl did have to hold it and I had to watch the mom come running from a distance. Yesterday was the same kind of weather so it was a wonderful day to be out playing with the calves and the mommas.
For the past two weeks I have been teaching pretty much everyday. I have taught Pre-primary to grade 7. I had to ask the teacher what exactly pre-primary was because I assumed it was probably different than back home, which it was. Kindergarten (or Kindie as they say here) is 4 year olds and pre-primary is 5 year olds. I have had a wonderful time teaching at Lancelin. The children are lovely and so are the staff. They have adopted me as one of their own. It has been nice to get a break from harvesting olives. We are on the last weeks of harvesting and I feel like I am going a bit crazy picking olives everyday.
One cool thing that the school just started doing was a thing called Centra. There is a main office in Leederville (Suburb of Perth) and they have teachers that sit in rooms at a computer and a tv and teach classes through the tv. The teacher can see the students and zoom in on them and I was basically there to supervise and make sure all of the students were working. The language that they learn in school is Indonesian so this is the way they are taught it. They usually split up the classes so half of them work with the teacher via the tv and the other half interact with a teacher on the computers. Pretty neat concept. It works really well. Centra also deals with students who take school via the internet who may be in a remote area, stuff like that.
David has been working hard at the Road House. He usually has about 3-4 shifts a week there. He is getting tired from all the working but he is enjoying the experiences and the friends he has made there. I think he will be deeply missed when he leaves there. We have another german couple living with us. They are 30 years old. They have been with us for a week now. The germans seem to be all over Australia on Working Holiday Visas.
Last week we had a bit of excitement. We invited Darryl and Donna over for dinner because it was the dutchies last night. David and Darryl were sitting on the veranda when they heard water leaking somewhere. They were trying to figure out where the leaking water was coming from when they saw all of this white chalky stuff on the ground right next to the door. They looked up and sure enough there was a carpet python on the wood above the door. Guess he couldn't hold it until he got further away from the humans. So Darryl took him down and we played with it for awhile until Donna decided that we had tortured in enough and it was time to let it go. I EVEN worked up the nerve to let him wrap the snake around me. I let him keep the head though, and far away from me.
We have a little less than two months before it is time for us to head on up the coast. It is sad to have the end so near in sight. We have fallen in love with living on the farm, the neighbours, Lancelin, Catherine and her girls, and of course Darryl and Donna. But we must keep on with the travels and see the rest of this beautiful country.
Well, that is all for now.
Holly x
For the past two weeks I have been teaching pretty much everyday. I have taught Pre-primary to grade 7. I had to ask the teacher what exactly pre-primary was because I assumed it was probably different than back home, which it was. Kindergarten (or Kindie as they say here) is 4 year olds and pre-primary is 5 year olds. I have had a wonderful time teaching at Lancelin. The children are lovely and so are the staff. They have adopted me as one of their own. It has been nice to get a break from harvesting olives. We are on the last weeks of harvesting and I feel like I am going a bit crazy picking olives everyday.
One cool thing that the school just started doing was a thing called Centra. There is a main office in Leederville (Suburb of Perth) and they have teachers that sit in rooms at a computer and a tv and teach classes through the tv. The teacher can see the students and zoom in on them and I was basically there to supervise and make sure all of the students were working. The language that they learn in school is Indonesian so this is the way they are taught it. They usually split up the classes so half of them work with the teacher via the tv and the other half interact with a teacher on the computers. Pretty neat concept. It works really well. Centra also deals with students who take school via the internet who may be in a remote area, stuff like that.
David has been working hard at the Road House. He usually has about 3-4 shifts a week there. He is getting tired from all the working but he is enjoying the experiences and the friends he has made there. I think he will be deeply missed when he leaves there. We have another german couple living with us. They are 30 years old. They have been with us for a week now. The germans seem to be all over Australia on Working Holiday Visas.
Last week we had a bit of excitement. We invited Darryl and Donna over for dinner because it was the dutchies last night. David and Darryl were sitting on the veranda when they heard water leaking somewhere. They were trying to figure out where the leaking water was coming from when they saw all of this white chalky stuff on the ground right next to the door. They looked up and sure enough there was a carpet python on the wood above the door. Guess he couldn't hold it until he got further away from the humans. So Darryl took him down and we played with it for awhile until Donna decided that we had tortured in enough and it was time to let it go. I EVEN worked up the nerve to let him wrap the snake around me. I let him keep the head though, and far away from me.
We have a little less than two months before it is time for us to head on up the coast. It is sad to have the end so near in sight. We have fallen in love with living on the farm, the neighbours, Lancelin, Catherine and her girls, and of course Darryl and Donna. But we must keep on with the travels and see the rest of this beautiful country.
Well, that is all for now.
Holly x
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rotto
Okay very belated update. It is hard to get time on the computer here as I share the computer with 6 other people who thoroughly enjoy spending their time on the internet. It's hard to squeeze enough time in to sit down and write. I have some time now waiting for David to cook up the supper tonight (or 'tea'). After our lovely time in Esperance we made a looong 8 hour drive to Rockingham (or Perth). We stopped halfway in a place called Hyden where there is the famous "Wave Rock" a cool thing to see. We surfed for about 7 minutes and then continued on the journey. We were about half an hour from our final destination when told that the place we were planning to stay at was not willing to stay open for us. When we got to Rockingham there was nothing, it was rainy, accommodation that was there was full and it was dark. After an hour, I remembered the FREE wifi at McDonald's, so we headed there for a late dinner and looked for a place to stay. Oh, I forgot to mention, my phone died just as we entered Rockingham. Apparently when roaming in and out it wastes the battery so my almost full battery was dead. We found a 24 hour hostel in Perth and drove another hour to our final destination where we had a very good night sleep.
The next morning we met up with Juli and Stephanie went on a major
shopping spree through Perth. It rained so it was a perfect thing to do. We spent the night at Juli's cafe drinking coffee and eating free cakes. It is very rare to find a cafe that is open after 7 pm anywhere in the big cities around here. It was nice to do a past time that I enjoyed doing back home that I have not gotten to do yet here in Australia. The boys joined us on Friday night where we had an interesting night in the YHA Perth Hostel.
Rottnest was awesome!! We lucked out yet again and had beautiful weather. We spent the first day setting up tent and relaxing at the beach with a little dip in the ocean. Very chilly!! During supper we were surrounded by quokkas (massive rats/tiny kangaroos) only found on Rottnest Island. They are very cute animals but by people feeding them they have become very tame and dumb....climbing up on our legs and getting in scraps at our feet, not cool. During the night, when we were playing cards in the boys' tent we heard lots of rummaging around in the tent next to us. It was very repetative and we soon assumed that it was not the lot of guys staying next to us but a quokka in their tent. When we went over to investigate we found that not only was there ONE quokka in the tent but FOUR. Dumb animals, it took us a bit of time to convince them to exit the door rather than trying to jump out from the walls of the tents.
The next day we hired bikes and biked around the whole island stopping here and there at beaches for a quick snorkel....there were little white jellyfish everywhere that I got stung by twice so everytime we saw them that was the end of our snorkelling adventures at that beach. One beach we stopped at we were attacked by cute, hungry, scrounging quokkas. They were worse than seagulls. They would try to enter one of our bags, get picked up and nicely thrown a little bit away and they would come straight back...never catching on. It was a good day, I did much better than last time...no walking my bike up the hills this time (probably because I was finally taught how to use gears on a mountain bike properly) and no one got sunburnt, not even Stephanie. 
We spent our last night on the island enjoying the sunset and then eating out for some yummy catch of the day fish and chips. The next morning we headed back to Fremantle and showed Stephanie all the yummy places to eat. Fremantle is a nice historic town with lots of neat buildings. It was a good way to end her trip to the east coast. Dropping her off at the airport was sad. But it was nice to have spent a lovely 3 weeks with her again, travelling around Australia.
I am now back at the farm harvesting away at the olives. We are finally almost done Spanish Queens and will then move onto Manzinellos. There is another Canadian girl here as well, she is from Halifax, it is cool to have someone to share a love for Canada with..haha. We also have two Dutch girls here as well as a girl from Switzerland and a girl from Germany. AH! and how can I forget, last week I was finally approved to teach in WA and I have work next Monday and Thursday in Lancelin...Yay!!! The teacher who called me today was very excited to see that I am able to teach for them for the next few months...finally!!!! It was an exciting day.
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