T3 First Farm:
Seven new volunteers today. Now there are four teams of four going out to work. Team 3, including me, head south about 8km across the Hume Hwy and along the Indigo Creek Road to a farm with cattle and vineyard. It's exclusively red wine grapes. But hey they just supply the industry with grapes, no finished product or samples here :(
It's very picturesque at the foot of rolling hills, out of the way and quiet with lots of bird life. I can see why people choose to live here. So we meet the farmer and his wife, shoot the breeze for a bit, then get down to it.
The first bit, the messy bit, pull out the burnt fence posts, some steel some red gum, and all the wire and ringlock. Could be here for a week just pulling up fences as all the paddocks have tree lined wind breaks that went up in smoke and the fire and heat has trashed the fences. Pull it up, cut it up, roll it into bundles.
Morning tea and lunch are provided by the farmer and his wife and it's a decent spread. Gunna have to work it off before the evening meal from the Lions club, roast chicken and veg tonight.
After four days the job is done, well the first part anyway. Over 4km of fences removed. Tomorrow another farm, another fence.
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| A wind break - and where a fence was. |
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| Golf course camping -need to call a golfer through now and then :) |
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| More than 4km of burnt out fencing materials. |
