I had a horrendous experience when I travelled up to a far halfway between Byron Bay and Bungalow, working for a guy called Sanra.
The living conditions were horrendous and it was a complete joke that anyone was expected to live like that. I would treat an animal better than they treat their workers! Everyone who goes there is unhappy and leaves pretty swiftly. By all means do the fruit picking for your visa if you can travel there from another location but DO NOT LIVE THERE!
I was a girl travelling on my own and it was quite traumatic actually and I just don’t want someone to be tricked into forking out to go there to find that the conditions are grotesque and you’re not even getting any pay.
For example, there were cockroaches in my bed, the oven, cooking hobs, and maggots in the fridge. There were rats in the shed where the caravans were kept, attracted by the stinking piles of rotting veg also dumped in the shed. There were no cooking facilities that were in any fit state and no running water, or in some cases even electricity, in the caravans. Mine did not have a window and there were shards of glass sticking out of the mattress. I wasn’t provided with any clean bedding and the toilet facilities (one toilet for everyone) were RANCID.
Please be careful!
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