CAUTIOUS CARGO ↑ This way up ↑: Working at the farm, Pelequin, Chile. February/March 2014.

Next WWOOFing stop, which I miss, was a great farm near Pelequin; goats, horses, cows, geese, hens, two Alsatian-rockweiler crosses, rabbits, cats, kittens and a giant monstrous pig which would periodically escape and slip and slide on concrete which was too slippery for its gigantic trotters. Harvested garlic, watered wood, fed the animals, made choclo, cleared out campground and dug water trenches full of human excrement courtesy of the neighbours. Manuel, Rafael, Ximena, Saskia (other WWOOFer, from Germany), Paula and Alicia. Played cards, drank wine, many laughs, en suite room. Found dead tarantula one day when clearing out the barn. Grapes and pomegranate trees.

One day, Matt, Saskia and I took a day trip to Siete Tazas National Park; seven ice-cold basalt pools ending in a 50 metre waterfall. The journey there and back consisted of ten separate legs and the last one looked for a time as though we´d end up sleeping by the highway until a trucker who played deafeningly loud dance music rescued us as Saskia and I bounced around on his bed at the back. Another night Manuel invited us to stay overnight at his house with his all-female family. We sat around a Chilean-style barbecue, eating pork off forks lollypop-style and drinking a LOT of wine. Again. After a week and a half of work and fantastic Chilean meals, we returned to Pichelemu to wait for our respective bank cards to arrive. Met up with ´Matt´s mates and Matt´s mate´s mates´.