Gosh, that brings back some memories. I used to live in Katikati, and spent several seasons picking during the day and packing at night. It was hard work, but a fairly short season. Later there was winter pruning as well, which was the toughest of them all.

I have some fond memories of those days, and of the people I met during that time. I worked at KatiCool mostly, either on the boxmaking machines (with a guy named "Buzz") or I was upstairs delivering the pallet loads of empty trays & plixes down to the packers.