Highlight
Featured Work Placement.
Want to work in Australia picking fruit? Pluck your way to Agriventure who can help you get there.Learn more...
Featured Travel
Two weeks in Ibiza not your cup of tea? Try venturing across undiscovered America with Trek America.Learn more...
Featured Volunteer Placement.
This month Watamu Turtle Watch caught our eye for their ingenious work on the Kenyan coast.Learn more...
Search the world
Home 
Australia and New Zealand Fruit picking in rural Australia
Australia and New Zealand Fruit picking in rural Australia | Fruit picking in rural Western Australia |
|
|
|
|
"Our first day was rather surreal. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to get to Dwellingup, in rural Western Australia. Then we were saddled with baskets that strap to your front that you fill up with various varieties of fruit.
Our first job was cherry-picking (no jokes please!) The morning was spent picking hundreds of cherries off trees and into our baskets, and then unloading them, very gently, into crates. The supervisor (whom we nicknamed the fruit naziť) shouted at us if we didn't handle the fruit like baby birds. The afternoon was spent next to conveyor belt sorting our gently-picked cherries into sizes.
The first day was really good fun - the sun was out, there were other backpackers and you could chat freely or listen to music. By the end of the first week, we were bored silly and by the end of the first month, it was a struggle to go into work but overall it was a unique experience, we made some good friends, ate free fruit and padded our pockets with dollars."
|
Advice
| Insurance and Safety |
| What to Pack |
| Whilst you are away |
| Returning Home |
| Money |
| Climate Change and Air Travel |
| Visas |
| Travel Health |
| Career Break |
| Gap Years for the Young at Heart |
Adventurer Login
Who's Online
We have 1 guest onlineAds by Google
ads2
Ethical Morals
Work Travel Volunteer pledges to fund small overseas development projects to help them grow. We too are a small grassroots organisation (big is NOT always better!) but we're passionate about overseas sustainable development and want to give back as much as we get out of Work Travel Volunteer. Visit our sustainable project page to find out more and to see how you can contribute. We also want to highlight key ecotourism issues that are going on at present and how you, as a traveller, whether you are visiting for 1 day, 1 week or two years, can help. Visit our tourism campaigns page to find out more and how you can help.Copyright © 2005 - 2008 Work Travel Volunteer. We run on Joomla! Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
[+]
