First month as a jillaroo: Photos 21 to 33

Hi guys, sorry it's been so long since my last blog entry. Suzie (one of the girls I met on the OutBackPackers course) and I have spent the last month working on a property about an hour's drive from Clermont, Queensland. So hot - it reached 40degrees quite a few times. Worked from 6.30am - 5.30pm six days a week. Was tough but amazing!! Got to go mustering on horseback quite a few days. The first day we went out on the horses we were out for over 9 hours and only got off the horses for an hour at lunch! Spent lots of time on quad bikes and driving around the paddocks in 4x4s. It was 60,000acres - didn't even see all of it. The water run to check the dams/troughs took 4 hours and we only went round one side of the place...crazy! We burned lots of paddocks too...Barry drove the quad while I sat on the back holding a firebug (basically looks like a fire extinguisher but it sprays out fuel so when you light it it sprays fire!!) Sometime the fire jumped across the paths so we had to run around in a panic trying to stop

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