Just back from the Banks Peninsula where I stayed at a pretty amazing place called the Onuku farm hostel. The place is a 1000acre sheepfarm near Akaroa with its own hiking tracks and nature reserve. The camp site is built into the hilllside and each tent gets its own little terrace amongst the trees.
The shower at Onuku
At the bottom is an open air communal kitchen and a tin hut shower which is probably the best shower I've ever used.......as long as you don't mind sharing it with the Cicadas, Hedgehogs and Possums! I've been Kayaking with the rare Hectors dolphins and even managed to catch a fish (rock perch) down at the fishing beach which was pretty good eating actually. Every night we played volleyball and there's a really good group of people there. A lot of these guys were WWOOF'ers (willing workers on organic farms............... not roofers with speach impediments,as I first thought) which means they do a couple hours a day in exchange for their board.
Amanda....wwoofers are definately cuter than roofers!!!!!
Met two really cool Dutch guys ; Raymon and Jeroune who were just about to leave for Australia. They were really layed back and were a real font of knowledge so I got some excellent info on places to go.
The weather has been a mixed bag and we had one day and night of torrential rain which flooded out a lot of the tents but mine has held firm so far :-). There was also and indoor kitchen with a wood burning stove so we hung out there when the weather was bad and I played chess with a swiss girl called Olivia who was a proffesional musician.........Yep she beat me every time.
Jeroune, Raymon and Olivia in the kitchen
Hope your all well,
Nig
P.s. Can any of you figure out what the implement in this photo is for?
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