Lloyd and I have arrived at
MorePork Riverside Lodge where we are to have our first go at WOOFing, it’s a
great scheme where you stay on mainly organic farms and land and help with
harvesting or keeping the land tidy, in return you get a bed and food for your
efforts.
Today we arrived at Morepork
Lodge and met our host Barbara; she’s a lovely lady who runs the B&B with
her husband Paul. The house itself is
set on a big patch of land and I think that during our time here we will be
doing a lot of gardening. They have a
few animals here too, a cat, chickens, sheep, alpacas and a goat. The goat is
the friendliest of the bunch and as far as goats go he seems to have a great
personality.
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| Our Home for the next few days |
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| View from the garden |
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| My new friend, Paul says he is quite close to putting him onto the BBQ |
As I have said WOOFing is a great
scheme, you pay a fee to sign up to the website and it allows you to contact hosts
and hosts to contact you it’s really easy and we have a few places lined up
already. Apart from helping us save a bit of money it’s a great way to get
involved and meet real Kiwis and not just other travellers and since we haven’t
worked for about 3 months it’s a good way to get used to working again. So the
plan is to WOOF our way south and apply for jobs in Queenstown other places
that have ski seasons, we will have to see what happens though as I have learnt
that anything can happen when travelling around.
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