Because of COVID 19 the backpackers who usually come here and often do fruit picking are not travelling here so the fruit farmers are getting worried that their crops will rot on the trees. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement having backpackers here but only if the farmers are fair dinkum in paying them properly and making sure they are safe and not harassed.

Last year we had our first crop of olives on our tree in the garden but we didn't realise that we should have weighted the branches to keep them low enough to reach. The only ones picking the fruit on our tall tree were the very raucous cockatoos.