Got back middle of last week from two months up a mountain, so much green around, and happily in more ways than one, that concrete suburbia just feels yuck 
, but not staying in suburbia for too long so that's good .
Was just about to get myself into gear to get a job in February after spending waaaaaaaaay too many pennies when someone told me about wwoofing.....and no, that first thought that just popped in then about whether this is the aussie word for dogging it isn't! hehe , it stands for willing workers on organic farms. You work 3-6 hours a day weeding/gardening/fruit picking, whatever it is that the place you go to needs, for your food and accomodation. I'd never heard of it before and when I looked into it decided I'd much rather do that than get back behind a desk.
I am so not a backpacker though!!!!! hehe, shoulda seen the size of my suitcase, it was a joke!, borrowed my sisters as mine was just too small after I'd bought me wellies (gotta have wellies to be a proper farmer ) and packed near enough my whole wardobe and a ridiculous amount of products, cos you obviously really need all that to go work on farms!! .
Anyway, the first uncomfortable thing for me was the fact that I had to hitchhike!!!!!, something I've never done before. No bus ran up there, and no taxi rank either and I couldn't get picked up by the people I was going staying with. Part of me thought, forget it I'll just wait a few hours, go and sit in a bar and have a smoke (cos I was sat in Nimbin, smokers mecca) and then get back on the bus later, then I got all brave and thought no just do it!, so I did!. She lived 13 k up Blue Knob Road!, what a great name eh! , got a lift straight away with a man and his daughter. They dropped me at the wrong place!!!!!!, I didn't think it was right, but thought, it must be, they live here, they'll know, after a few mins of shouting "hello" into a vacant house I rang and found out I was still quite far away!, anyway headed back out to the main road, a car came straight away, went to the driver and told him where I was heading and told him that someone had just dropped me at the wrong place.....he said "yeah that was me" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :$ hehehehe, bless him he realised and came back for me! Was well worth the bravery, I was blown away when I got to the place it was so beautiful.
I had a little caravan as my home, the first night I couldn't believe the noise!!!! the property was on 65 acres, and all you can see are mountains and trees and the noise of the birds/cane toads/crickets and cicada's (beetles) was unreal!, got used to it quickly though. I surprised myself at how happy and content I was with so little going on and no basic home comforts at all, and also having to eat a vegetarian diet, we seriously had, rice n veg and then veg n rice ooo pasta n veg tonight n veg n pasta tomorrow (was grateful for the pork chop my sister made me when I got back hehe). Compost loo, with the most spectacular view of a mountain, an outdoors shower (it's ace showering with the sun beaming down on you!!, apart from when an animal crawled in the water tank n died and we had brown stinky water for a few days ewwwwwwwww! :| ), no TV, and no mobiles allowed (which didn't make any odds as no signal up there anyway!).
Luckily creepy crawleys don't bother me, the huntsmen spiders are massive! but harmless, and there were leeches, ticks and nasty bitey ants that really hurt!, but loved being in the countryside so much more than city life, it's just so chilled, especially when your neighbour has a medicine garden with some lovely plants.
It's cooling down now (certainly not cold, still between 25-28 during the day but feels chilly at night) so going to head up the coast where it's hotter and see the Great Barrier Reef next.
, but not staying in suburbia for too long so that's good .Was just about to get myself into gear to get a job in February after spending waaaaaaaaay too many pennies when someone told me about wwoofing.....and no, that first thought that just popped in then about whether this is the aussie word for dogging it isn't! hehe
, it stands for willing workers on organic farms. You work 3-6 hours a day weeding/gardening/fruit picking, whatever it is that the place you go to needs, for your food and accomodation. I'd never heard of it before and when I looked into it decided I'd much rather do that than get back behind a desk.I am so not a backpacker though!!!!! hehe, shoulda seen the size of my suitcase, it was a joke!, borrowed my sisters as mine was just too small after I'd bought me wellies (gotta have wellies to be a proper farmer
) and packed near enough my whole wardobe and a ridiculous amount of products, cos you obviously really need all that to go work on farms!! .Anyway, the first uncomfortable thing for me was the fact that I had to hitchhike!!!!!, something I've never done before. No bus ran up there, and no taxi rank either and I couldn't get picked up by the people I was going staying with. Part of me thought, forget it I'll just wait a few hours, go and sit in a bar and have a smoke (cos I was sat in Nimbin, smokers mecca) and then get back on the bus later, then I got all brave and thought no just do it!, so I did!. She lived 13 k up Blue Knob Road!, what a great name eh!
, got a lift straight away with a man and his daughter. They dropped me at the wrong place!!!!!!, I didn't think it was right, but thought, it must be, they live here, they'll know, after a few mins of shouting "hello" into a vacant house I rang and found out I was still quite far away!, anyway headed back out to the main road, a car came straight away, went to the driver and told him where I was heading and told him that someone had just dropped me at the wrong place.....he said "yeah that was me" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :$ hehehehe, bless him he realised and came back for me! Was well worth the bravery, I was blown away when I got to the place it was so beautiful.I had a little caravan as my home, the first night I couldn't believe the noise!!!! the property was on 65 acres, and all you can see are mountains and trees and the noise of the birds/cane toads/crickets and cicada's (beetles) was unreal!, got used to it quickly though. I surprised myself at how happy and content I was with so little going on and no basic home comforts at all, and also having to eat a vegetarian diet, we seriously had, rice n veg and then veg n rice ooo pasta n veg tonight n veg n pasta tomorrow (was grateful for the pork chop my sister made me when I got back hehe). Compost loo, with the most spectacular view of a mountain, an outdoors shower (it's ace showering with the sun beaming down on you!!, apart from when an animal crawled in the water tank n died and we had brown stinky water for a few days ewwwwwwwww! :| ), no TV, and no mobiles allowed (which didn't make any odds as no signal up there anyway!).
Luckily creepy crawleys don't bother me, the huntsmen spiders are massive! but harmless, and there were leeches, ticks and nasty bitey ants that really hurt!, but loved being in the countryside so much more than city life, it's just so chilled, especially when your neighbour has a medicine garden with some lovely plants
.It's cooling down now (certainly not cold, still between 25-28 during the day but feels chilly at night) so going to head up the coast where it's hotter and see the Great Barrier Reef next.
