OCTOBER 5TH TO OCTOBER 15TH 2012
THURSDAY 4/10/2012
We left Kadina at 12.30. We took photos at Paskerville.
Dublin we brought fruit,vegie and meat
Port Wakefield we filled both petrol tanks
Parking bay just outside of Port Wakefield, we stopped for lunch
We stopped at Boliver for a couple of hrs to wait for the traffic to die down and met up with Deb and John.
The other side of the city of Adelaide
We stopped at 1am 10kms from Tinana
FRIDAY 5/10/2012
We left at 9.50am. Our first tank ran out 80kms from Penola, 30kms from Naracorte.
We met up with Pete on Pete’s Fish Farm where we will be staying and working. We helped Pete with his chores. He has sheep,lambs,rainbow trout and yabbies.
SATURDAY 6/10/2012
Kiera and I fed the chooks and let them out collected the eggs then put them back in at night. We also feed the lambs twice a day by bottle. We also let the dogs of their lead.
We also help with the yabbies and fish.
We also met Kay today.
SUNDAY 7/10/2012
Today was a very busy day for us. All 5 of us rounded the sheep and lambs up. We docked the tails, gave them vitamin shots. Then put the lambs back with their mums and left them a while to settle down. Then they went back in their paddock. We have another 2 lots of lambs to do. We done 175 lambs today. Kay brought us fish and chips for tea. Kiera was very good today.
MONDAY 8/10/2012
Kay went to work today and Dave helped Pete and Kiera and I done our jobs. We went for a drive to the local dairy (Jeff) and saw the milking and Kiera patted 3 bull calf's. We took photo’s.
Other Cattle in the area
Shawn sheep we saw on the way home.
TUESDAY 9/10/2012
Random photo’s of the fish farm.
BIRDS ON THE FARM
BLUE WREN
WATER HEN
DUCKS
KERMET-TAWNY FROG MOUTH
ON THE FARM
YABBIES ON THE FARM
Kiera helping mummy fill the bags with ice.
PICS WITH KIERA
SHEARING SHED
DAVE CHOPPING WOOD
Kiera with her new friends,six baby lambs been bottle fed.
WEDNESDAY 10/10/2012
Dave done the yabbies on his own today and helped gutter fish and smoke them. Dave got a call to work on the orchid to help with the reticulation .
Daddy found Kiera a starling egg for Kiera.
Dave’s work at the apple orchid.
KALANGAROO
SATURDAY 13/10/2012
We decided to go to Adelaide for the weekend and come back late Sunday. 5.5hrs drive.
ADELAIDE HILLS
FERRY
NARACORTE
KIERA
NORWOOD
OLIVE PLANTATION
IN THE GALLERY KI KI-Dave & Maggie Forsyth
KI KI
SUNDAY14/10/2012
We met up with Kym & Julie
TUESDAY16/10/2012
We went fishing at the pond on the farm and had fish for tea.We caught 4 rainbow trout. We done to in orange and two in lemon.
FRIDAY 19/10/2012
Kiera and I slept until 10.30 and Dave slept until 12.30. We went to Mount Gambier for the day.
KALANDOO
MOUNT GAMBIER
SATURDAY 20/10/2012
We went fishing and caught 700 rainbow fish to go in the tanks. We saw 2 red and black belly snakes when we done the yabbies. Kay looked after Kiera. Dave had to jump start the tractor. I took the fish out of the tank by net into the waiting ponds. Kay and Pete also have 3 lama’s, and 3 sheep dogs named minnie mouse, bam bam and pebbles.
SUNDAY 21/10/2012
We accepted a job today in NSW and we are leaving Pete’s fishing farm tomorrow.
MONDAY 22/10/2012
We left at 11.50. Thank you Pete and Kay for the wonderful experience of working on a fishing farm.