For a few weeks. It’s filthy, hot, boring work, but who cares? $200 a day isn’t to be sneezed at. Right now they’re burning the cane crops around here and the air is full of smoke every evening. The night sky looks like the gates of hell and the snakes and bugs are out in force after a day’s rain. (Gecko damn near stepped on a snake yesterday, getting out of the car to photograph something) Then we ran over another one in the middle of the track.
It’s great to be back in the tropics. 
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
when I was young-my family used to go to the farm lands and paid the farmer for the ‘privilege ‘ to pick -bushels of apples-peaches-tomatoes et al so that the fruit could be canned in glass bottles –now we can buy glass bottled fruit- picked and -canned by someone else —we have come a long way!
Enjoy picking for $$$$ : – )
Carol-CS
I very much doubt I’ll enjoy it, Carol. Still, you know what the Buddhists say–“work is prayer”.
I just hope the lady backpackers wear more at work than they do around town–one doesn’t need distractions….
Mango picker? There’s gotta be a song in there somewhere.
I hear there’s an opening for a Helicopter pilot in NZ.
http://youtu.be/vm398hEzH8E
I bet the insurance company is a bit teed off with him Darin.
As for mangoes–I don’t even eat fruit!
Look at the irony.Fiffty feet of loose cable cost $3million while at the same time fifty more feet on his skyline would have saved that $3million……and a change of underware
I’m no expert but have had a tiny bit of time around helicopters.
I can’t believe that that stunt was anyway commonsensical.Kiwi #8 wire,yeh right……
Note some of our churnolists from TV1 are already blaming some geezer on the ground for it,more fricken experts!
$200 a day. It boils my balls that we have layabouts here in “Godzone” being subsidised by the taxpayer to do nothing but smoke dope and make noise in shitty old cars when they could be working for a living…….oh sorry that was a moral judgement.tsk tsk.
At least you will have something to look at. My current job is carting rocks from one side of a sandpit to t’other. 7 minutes per round trip, 18 ton per trip, 11 hours of driving per day.
Enthralling stuff but at $300 per day it means more time to do what I want when all the rocks are moved.
That sounds like a version of the old Army punishment, Bill!
(Apart from using a truck to do it, that is).
Cool Hand Luke
Now fill it in again.
Great film.
Yes!
Enjoys the mango’s and the $$$,……but you can keep the snakes KG!!
Sorry can’t resist
“Wabbit’s gone to Queensland pickin, and we don’t know where he are.”
With apologies to Banjo Patterson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6K85PuQ_M
Not being a selfish man, John I’ll be perfectly happy to get hold of a styrene foam fruit box and courier a couple down to you.
(snakes, that is, not mangoes)
Now i know why i avoid the tropics, bloody snakes, i hear they’re in the water too. Good heavens is there no escape from them.
Right now, MK, noisy neighbours are more of a problem than a few wrigglies.