Well, well, well. Where to begin?? It has been many moons since i last updated this blog. As some of you may recall, we are currently in New Zealand, a large chain of islands in the South Pacific. There are many sheep. Also, many Germans.
When last you joined us, we were preparing for a month of hard labour in the scenic Central Otago region. This rather sucked. We worked for a company called Vinewise, which was a lot like being an indentured servant for a large plantation owned by an evil Indian man. For 4 weeks we laboured, creating many future bottles of delicious wine. After that we met up with our fellow Canadians; Brian, Stefan, Jess and Sarah. Also Ben. Together we quested our way up the West Coast, seeing glaciers, rainforests, and insanely rough and shitty coastal weather.
The journey was not without its challenges: travelling with a group of ten people is something of a logistical nightmare at times. But the joys outweighed the sorrows. We then arrived in the sunny and ridiculously hot Tasman region. Motueka is our current home.
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| Split Apple Rock- Our Motueka home beach |
We intended to come here to get orchard work, but the amount of dang hippies hanging out here waiting for work definitely outweighs the amount of work available. We've been waiting around here for the season to start for a week and a half already and everywhere is still telling us to wait another two to three weeks. Which brings me to this sad day. We are going to have to part ways.
Steph, Brian, Jess, Sarah and myself are heading back to the North Island next week, hopefully to get work in the Napier/Hastings area. The rest of the party, including the former members of mine and Steph's little NZ family (Matt, Maja and Asta) will be staying here to wait things out. It's a damn shame but this is just the way things have to work out right now. We're a little broke :). On Tuesday-ish we clamber back on the Interislander for our journey back to the North. The South Island has been too good to us and its sad to split up the team.
IM GOING TO MORDOR ALONE SAM!!!
OF COURSE YOU ARE! AND I'M COMING WITH YOU!!!
I will update you all when we get to Napier. Hopefully i'll be telling you about the awesome jobs that we've found!
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