A few days off

So after working for 4 days the farmer popped over and informed everyone that we would be having two days off to let the next variety of fruit ripen. The first of the two days off we spent chilling out around the camp site, playing cards, scrabble and even a spot of cricket which was a good laugh as everyone played. The weather was hot so naturally that meant we were having a few beers too.
That evening we planned to go out for a drive to water hole (koorwatha falls about 50 kilometres away. We left the camp-site and headed there in three vans and a 4x4. It took about 50 mins to drive there, the drive was along all types of roads the last was a dirt track. All the vans were getting thrown around so I was glad to be in the Germans 4x4. Only Smithy and I had been able to get a lift so when we got there it was about a 10 minute walk through the bush to get to the water hole. One of the farmers sons had mentioned because it was such a war and clear day that the snakes would be out. He’d also mentioned that he’d seen a brown snake that morning and they’re deadly. Once bitten by one of these beasts you’d have roughly 15 minutes before you were dead. Knowing that, made me rather anxious while walking through the long grass knowing that the nearest hospital was at least an hour away. There were about 16 or so of us, all were carrying various stuff, and I had been tasked to carry the cooler box full of ice and beer which got heavy after about two minutes. Smithy was in charge of the bongo and the guitar. We walked to the water hole and had a beer. The sun was beating down hard that day so we planned to get the jumping under way. Heath, Joel and Paddy all climbed the rock face and then jumped. Joel jumped first and no one had been in the water to test the depth. He didn’t hit the bottom so the other two boys jumped. After a while I started to get abused by everyone for not jumping yet (sounds like home and work, funny that). I got changed and jump. When I hit the water I thought the back of my left leg had fallen off because I sort of assumed the fetal position. Not a great idea from the height of the jump. After a few hours when it started to cool down we all decided to head back. We hopped back in to the vans. We stopped at the bottle shop on the way back to get a few boxes of beer for good old knees up.
The second day of we had was just as hot as the first so we planned to go to the local swimming pool in Young. This pool was like no other I’ve ever been to. It was so chilled out, they had a diving board which was a really good laugh (see photos) they even had a BBQ which was free. We spent a few hours at the pool which was nice.
When we got back to the farm we all chipped in and paid for Pete to cut matt a mullet. It was the dirty most horrible mullet I’ve ever seen. Shows what being bored on a farm in the middle of now-where can do to you.