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Published: November 23rd 2007
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We set off very earlie today as we need to be in town to meet a lady about picking tomatoes. Bad has a swollen mouth so the drugs he is taking does not allow him to drive, so yes its girl power all the way today, the weather is miserable none stop rain, so as you can imagine we are so not up for camping. On arrival we headed straight for a camp site to ask if they had a cabin, and as luck would have it they did so we stayed the night in comfort, just as well as it rained solid all night long.
We headed over to Elliots Head to set up camp, which was beautiful, the camp was on top of a beach which was small but quant. Then we headed into Mon Repos to go in search of wild turtles, I did not read the small print which read this could take up to 6 hours as you cant rush nature, opps we start work at 6 picking toms in the morning. We arrived at 6.30pm by 9.30 still nothing I felt so bad and we all felt tired, as luck would have it at
9.45pm we all got gathered up and off we went marching down the beach, it was so funny everyone was trying to get ahead of everyone and their was about 40 in our group. We slowed down after a quick paced walk and there she was a massive wild female turtle. How amazing we were not aloud to take photos as they are very sensitive about light, they only come into a dark beach and lay their eggs then use the light from the moon t find the waters edge again. This is also how baby turtles find their way into the water after they have hatched. The rangers used a torch every now and again so that you could see the size of her, she was massive. Turtles do not lay eggs until they reach 30yrs so the rangers watch the baby turtles go into the water and then never to be seen until 30 years latter. What an awesome night.
Their was no work for us due to the rain, we used this to our advantage and headed of to the Bundaburg Beer (ginger) museum what fun it was all interactive, full of touch screen computers, so
you read all the info then the computer would ask you how you would make the ginger beer, if you got the mixtures wrong it would blow up. Then we finish with a hologram movie talking about yeast and sugarcane and how they work together for the perfect taste. And yes we got to try all flavours, which now adds up to about 11 so we all felt a little sick after the taste session.
So yes we finally went to the field to pick some tomatoes, $2 a bucket, and it took 15 mins to fill one, because it is the beginning of the session it was select picking. I sneezed for the first 4 hours as the chemicals on the toms were really bad. I stuck at it for 2 days and then no more, our hands had 2mm of chemicals stuck on them and no matter what you washed them with it did not shift.
On leaving Bundaburg of course we headed out to the Bundaburg Rum Distillery, we were shown around the whole factories to see each process. We went into a big barn to see the sugarcane after it has been extracted from
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The night we saw the turtle the 10inche sections, ohhhhh I have never smelt anything so horrid in all my live, then we were blessed with being aloud to taste it in this form, it tasted like very strong lickerish. The yeast is then added. The whole mixture is then put into tanks and the yeast turns all this into 75% prof after they add distilled water to reduce the strength at the correct legal level and place it into wooden tanks for 2 years to mature and get its colouring. I looked like a midget standing next to one of the tanks they are huge.
Then last stop off to the Mystery Craters in Gin Gin. When we got there I was so shocked we walked through a shop and into a garden, I thought these Craters were going to go on for miles but no, they were in a back yard of some old farmer. Walking up the 1940s stares provided, on clicked a tape recording, explaining that the farmer come across these when he was digging up his land to plant more capsicums (peppers) the craters look like 3 left feet and some circles. Some fill with water some don’t. Their have
been many scientist go and look but none can come up with a reason to how it got their ohhhhhhhhhhhh whata mystery.
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looks great hun, you're doing well with the blog too! have fun be safe. love you. fred. x