MON - cleaned the house before we left, shop in greymouth on the way to Waiuta robert harris again, got to waiuta (old ghost town of a gold mining town from 1951, the gold ran out and it was abandoned they now wish to restore it, a bit eerie but pretty cool) the lodge in which we stay is awesome, i have a massive bed to myself, its about 5 beds together as a continuous bunk bed, like waitawheta! theres manuka everywhere and its flowering so its all white, loads of bees, a constant hum. we had lunch thend rove around the site for sam to get to know it, having never been there before. worked for about an hour cutting down manuka and laying it out along a bare patch of land to re-seed it
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