Cygnet part 3 : Galas!!!

A Royal Gala in all it's splendor.  If you're ever color picking : this one goes in the bin!  So we've finally moved up  in the fruit picking society.  We've been so lucky one morning, hitch hiking once more to the strawberry fields :  our hitch asked us to do some pruning and picking in his orchard the next days.  Wow!  After we just got the job for John Cenin, which was to begin the next week.  Cenin asked us to go get some practice cause he was a bit worried that we would bruise his apples and we were thinking...  yeah right!  practice? where?  at night, jumping the fence onto some random orchard?!  But all worked perfectly and we practiced a bit in the pouring down rain.  Below; our outfits (I think Scott, our boss, was a bit worried we might get lost in the rows or something...).

A garage break, hiding from the rain for a bit.

My true nature, finally revealed in a shed.

The Wolf Creek coat or think Hugh Jackman in Australia.

Real good apples :)

Seyong and Peyon; the newlywed Korean couple we met at the caravan park.  We got them a job with us at Cenin's orchard.  

Marion's very much into tractors, particularly John Deeres.  But any will do really.  

Messing around all together on our last day of Royal Galas.  The guy under the ladder (!) : John Cenin, our boss.  "Don't bruise them me apples!  They're real easy to bruise, especially on cold and wet mornings.  We'll see the fingerprints within hours in the bins!" But real nice guy honestly.  

Lily and Eric, a really cute German couple travelling around in a vintage war ambulance that they got freighted from the U.K.  

John again, master of his domain.

Fashion shoot at Huonpark.

Peta Cenin, the other owner and wife of John.  She drives the tractor (the red one though!) just as well as her partner.

The Ladder.  How much fun did we all have standing high on these heavy and rusty metal things.  And of course, the wind always really picks up when you're on the last step reaching out for that far away apple, which you discover, after so much risk taking, being completely rotten.  Citron Bibi.

The bag and the bin.  God that first one's always so very depressing.  20 more trips to go...

A full bin : 32 or 36 $, depending on if you've been stripping the trees or color picking.  4 or 5 of those make for a solid day of work.  Some really good pickers manage to get up to 10 bins full in about 8 hours.  

Jasmine and Tobias, the German couple that we've been riding with everyday.  

Sunscreen, hat, bottle of water and lipbalm.  Sunscreen, hat, bottle of water and lipbalm.  How many times do I have to repeat this to myself to finally understand the formula?  The sun in Tasmania is very strong.  I've never felt anything like it before.  It's like needles on your skin.  

Blue sky, great people, cool job!  That's exactly why I came back to Tasmania :)