How do you Dry Grapes in The Wet?? With a Helicopter!!!

Bogged in a Ditch

Whilst the boys did some work in town I worked a day on a grape farm. The rains just started to come in during the early afternoon and the picking was ground to a halt. I called it a day and set of down the 10km driveway to the main road, thinking I would probably not make it back because I had barely made it in due to slippery mud on the dirt track. "You'll be fine" I was assured by a guy in a four wheel drive.


It's not all fun and games

Exactly half way down the track I pulled to one side to avoid a huge puddle and instantly got bogged down in the mud, wheels spinning uselessly the rain starting to dribble on my window pane. I knew it would happen. I stepped out of the van and instantly slipped in my only footwear, flip-flops, and the rain was starting to come down harder. My phone, as usual was out of range, even if it was in range I had no phone credit. I was 5kms away from the farm and they couldn't hear me beeping my horn, I did what I know best, opening my book in the hopes that someone would rescue me before I got to the last page.



Help came an hour or so later when I was pulled out by the farm's visiting family members. Thank you thank you thank you!
The following few days we were promised work at the grape farm, but the rain had not let us work. Grapes apparently ruin if you pick them while wet, they even brought in helicopters to dry out the grapes in between showers, to no avail and at great expense, the rain kept coming and the work kept slipping through our wet, damp, wrinkled fingers.


I try to walk in the mud but my shoes are too slippery