It's been so long since the last update, this is partly due to the fact that Liz hasn't had much to report on, sitting around the caravan park waiting for the wheat harvest has been mind numbingly boring!!!
Bowman's is starting to kick of for this years harvest - hooooray! Liz gets her second big day at work tomorrow (Friday) so it's on with the hard hat and the steel capped boots (pictures may follow).
This year South Australia is expecting to harvest 7.5 million metric tonnes of wheat.
On top of that there is also canola, peas and barley.
This is one of many bunkers - the harvest is stored in bunkers, sheds and silos. This is last years harvest which has now been trucked to Outer Harbour to the ships for exportation. They are making room for the bumper crops.
Rob has spent the last 4 weeks doing maintenance on the bunkers - getting ready for the big intake
During the season this is where Rob will be working - Block O where there are six silos holding about 1,000 tonnes each - the wheat, canola, peas and barley are moved from the bunkers and sheds along a conveyor belt into the silos where they will be loaded onto trucks and trains - above you can see where a train is being loaded.
The sheds where the harvested goods will be stored
Here's some barley moving from one of the big sheds to Block O where it will be loaded onto one of the many trains passing through. Rob's been told he could be working 7 days a week and up to 14 hours a day - phew that's one long day.
As for me some pictures to come - I will be probing the trucks, classifying their goods and looking out for any nasties. They tell me in the peak of the season the trucks are 4 wide and a queue at least 1km long. The classifying sheds (which thankfully are air conditioned - yay for Liz) are open from 7.30am to 7.30pm.
It is certainly going to be busy - but hopefully interesting too.
Hope to have more to tell you soon so say tuned...................
