Travelling to Australia

[pappuller]

Son is travelling to Australia in a fortnight to do some ag contracting work in Victoria area around fish creek.
Just wondering if any on here are able to offer any advice,tips,hints,requirements or things to take for the 3 months he's there.
Or if any members on here are familiar with the area any local knowledge would help of course.
Flights are booked and visa is in hand.
Thanks

 

[TelesnaAg]

Son is travelling to Australia in a fortnight to do some ag contracting work in Victoria area around fish creek.
Just wondering if any on here are able to offer any advice,tips,hints,requirements or things to take for the 3 months he's there.
Or if any members on here are familiar with the area any local knowledge would help of course.
Flights are booked and visa is in hand.
Thanks

Warm clothes and summer clothes...its cold atm. Im in the south on the other side of the bay. We use eftpos for everything here so get a bank acc asap and cards...30 cent snow cone at maccas...eftpos.

Ant...

 

[pappuller]

Warm clothes and summer clothes...its cold atm. Im in the south on the other side of the bay. We use eftpos for everything here so get a bank acc asap and cards...30 cent snow cone at maccas...eftpos.

Ant...

Eftpos ?

 

[Big_D]

Eftpos ?

Just what they call the contactless/card payment system in shops in Australia and New Zealand

 

[Bald Rick]

Son is travelling to Australia in a fortnight to do some ag contracting work in Victoria area around fish creek.
Just wondering if any on here are able to offer any advice,tips,hints,requirements or things to take for the 3 months he's there.
Or if any members on here are familiar with the area any local knowledge would help of course.
Flights are booked and visa is in hand.
Thanks

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Hope you don’t mind @pappuller

 

[TelesnaAg]

Eftpos ?

Card, card/phone for everything...and i mean everything, vending machines, car wash, maccas snow cone.

It makes Germans blood boil.

Ant...

 

[pappuller]

Moved to Agricultural Matters for a broader response than the udder gazers in the Dairy Forum

Hope you don’t mind @pappuller

Many thanks old chap

 

[Ben B]

Son is travelling to Australia in a fortnight to do some ag contracting work in Victoria area around fish creek.
Just wondering if any on here are able to offer any advice,tips,hints,requirements or things to take for the 3 months he's there.
Or if any members on here are familiar with the area any local knowledge would help of course.
Flights are booked and visa is in hand.
Thanks

Very nice part of the world if he's fond of hills. Not far to the coast from there. Some really nice beaches down that way. Guess he's working for a silage contractor down there?

 

[pappuller]

Very nice part of the world if he's fond of hills. Not far to the coast from there. Some really nice beaches down that way. Guess he's working for a silage contractor down there?

Yes, running pottinger forage wagons

 

[CPF]

Nice part of the country will be cold there at the moment,
He may have to get his phone unlocked so he can take an aussie sim card or just buy a cheap aussie phone and put a SIM card in. Check out what Aldi are offering as we have a good SIM from them that costs $25 a month (£13) with all texts and calls to most world destinations and 25G of data. They have different levels of Data at different costs. Easy to use and get extra data if needed.

 

[Kidds]

Nice part of the country will be cold there at the moment,
He may have to get his phone unlocked so he can take an aussie sim card or just buy a cheap aussie phone and put a SIM card in. Check out what Aldi are offering as we have a good SIM from them that costs $25 a month (£13) with all texts and calls to most world destinations and 25G of data. They have different levels of Data at different costs. Easy to use and get extra data if needed.

What is the coverage like in less built up areas?
Asking because I am coming over early next year. Usually get a Telstra sim as it's the only one with good coverage away from towns, by that I mean a bit more rural rather than in the middle of nowhere.
I'd guess getting the sim the locals recommend once you are there is the best bet if you are staying in one area but an unlocked phone is a good call.

Most folk probably assume it is going to be hot but on one of our trips it was bloody freezing, we ended up in a charity shop buying sleeping bags.
I told everyone I had a vagrant following me.

 

[Jdunn55]

Nice part of the country will be cold there at the moment,
He may have to get his phone unlocked so he can take an aussie sim card or just buy a cheap aussie phone and put a SIM card in. Check out what Aldi are offering as we have a good SIM from them that costs $25 a month (£13) with all texts and calls to most world destinations and 25G of data. They have different levels of Data at different costs. Easy to use and get extra data if needed.

When you say cold, do you mean actually cold? Or like "only" 30 degrees?

 

[Kidds]

When you say cold, do you mean actually cold? Or like "only" 30 degrees?

A bit colder than it is here but less rain.

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[Jdunn55]

A bit colder than it is here but less rain.

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Didn't think it actually got thatcold!

Do they get frost?

 

[Jim bean]

He will be about 2 hours from me. I don't know the area that well but l hope he is a good tractor driver used to slopes and odd shaped fields. He will also need a vehicle its a bit rural down there.

 

[Happy hillbily]

Didn't think it actually got thatcold!

Do they get frost?

I was on a station north of Broken Hill back in 99, i wasn't prepared for the cold there, had quite a few frosts, down to about -3⁰c over night, i only had a few thin work shirts. Doing the bore run on a motorbike wasn't fun at all. Bought some thicker work shirts next time we went to town, only wore them a fwe times after that

 

[CPF]

Didn't think it actually got thatcold!

Do they get frost?

Yes ,this photo

was not far from Fish Creek Area ,when we were travelling in august 2023, My daughter lives out on the great ocean road in Victoria. She said it will get cold but not cold like cold is in UK but I think she was wrong. I call it a blue cold it just goes straight through you blowing of the ocean.
The temperature will just be starting to warm up a little bit now but 18 +then it will go up into the 30 little bit more.

 

[Ben B]

Didn't think it actually got thatcold!

Do they get frost?

Big frost events recently across a big area's in NSW cropping regions potentially done a lot of crop damage. It still gets fairly cold here. We get more snow then the Swiss Alps on our ski fields.

 

[CPF]

He will be about 2 hours from me. I don't know the area that well but l hope he is a good tractor driver used to slopes and odd shaped fields. He will also need a vehicle its a bit rural down there.

We got relations to live in Queenscliff we went and see them.
Then we ferry across to sorrento we came very close to passing your front door then.

 

[Jim bean]

Yes that ferry takes you past Portsea where all the billionaires have their holiday houses. I live out behind rosebud with the peasants.