Leaving Kyabram

Leaving Kyabram and my future
I am leaving Kyabram, the wonderfull place (ehum) I called home for the last 7 weeks, behind. I was planning to pick for another two weeks, but the quality and the size of the pears were so awfull that I decided to go to Tasmania for one week and than to Darwin through the center. So expect a lot of pictures of that big red pebble in the middle of this country. If all goes well, I should be in Darwin around the 12th of April and I’ll probably look for a job over there OR fly to Perth and look for a job there. Not really sure yet, that’s the beauty about this trip… you’re not even sure where you’ll be the next day, notting is really planned and everything can change in a heartbeat.
Johan and I also split up… Australia is such a big country with so many beautifull people that we decided to each go our own way for a few weeks, months,… who knows? He always left the toilet seat up, I got sick of it… We’ll probably see eachother again in Perth, or somewhere else, like they say in Oz… ‘no worries’. Johan is setting up a blog of his own as he’s probably going to see and do different things as I am, I’ll post the link to his blogsite as soon as he manages to set it up.

So what have I done the last few days?
There’s actually not much to do in Kyabram. One weekend there was a rodeo and that was about THE event of the year in Kyabram, how sad is that? The last few days where an eclectic mix of getting bored to death, picking pears, going to town just to see time fly by and ofcourse complaining in unison about the quality of the trees, seriously, one of the last blocks was of such a bad quality that my arms were full with scratchwounds… pictures online soon at Raiderspix.

Melbourne Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Crown Casino
This was like the event of the year for me, after more than a month hiding in Kyabram between pears, apples, flies, spiders and cockroaches I was more than happy to go to the big city. We booked tickets for Sunday, a whopping $99, about 4 bins (after picking so much, you start to calculate in bins instead of regular dollars). On Saturday we went to the Melbourne Crown Casino, the biggest casino in the southern hemisphere and the place where we all hoped to get rich quick. We even had a “can’t lose system”, but we lost anyway… I personally blame Al-Qaeda. I lost $90 on the roulette table after having won $150. Tip: If someone says you should stop… STOP! But we had a great time, though we all lost money.
On Sunday… Formula 1 baby, yeah! I hooked up with Johan again and we were just in time to see the start of the Celebrity Race, the only familiar face I knew was Kelly Slater, surfer, who came in third. At 2PM the big race began, and boy, do those machines make noise! Crap, I wished I bought some earplugs… we stood about 5 meters from the course and the noise was deafening, we could hear the engines from 3 kilometers away. And for those who didn’t watch it, Raikkonen won.It’s all a big show ofcourse, with plenty of entertainment and ways to spend your money on overpriced t-shirts, hats and other useless merchandise.
The only downside of the short trip to Melbourne… our hostel. We stayed at Hotel Bakpak, a hostel too huge to be properly managed. It took an hour to check out and the ambiance was horrible… for those who’re planning to come to Melbourne… skip this one.

SO NEXT UP:
Tasmania, Melbourne, Adelaide, Coober Peddy, Alice Springs, the big red pebble, Darwin and a lot of sand…