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Published: January 10th 2009
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this tasted like sugared and oranged chlorine 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 there. not too bad. after work me and kate went for a wander, found the old barbers shop, had a look in the windo and shat myself, theres a mirror on the wall opposite the window, except i didnt know it was a mirror and thought someone was in there!!!! me and karl cooked bangers and mash being bored and also noone else had taken
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Coleen the Weka it upon themselves to cook - we shouldnt have as we were already cooking on another night.
TUES - we have a family of weka (flightless brown birds, abit smaller than a small chicken), very cheeky birds, not shy at all, come right up to us, we named them colin (though it is a female) and her chicks fernando and ted... carried on with the manuka in the morning, after smoko we moved onto taking out rowan trees - taking over the place - wasnt too bad as we had our music and i had my eye right in so kept findin all the tiny little seedlings in amongst the tall grass and other plants 😊 finished early and went to reefton - closest town about 20mins away - to get more ingredients for the mac and cheese me and karl are due to cook. when we got back me and karl had a play fight, well i attempted to beat him, it failed, badly! jack cooked some awesome korean food, very spicy but nice! noone would dry up so i did (shouldnt have - cooking twice but noone else was going to). after that i went to a
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the track through the beech forest sandfly free area i had found earlier, under a massive fir tree, sat for a while then back to the lodge.
WEDS - created a track/view point thing today, pointless work as noone will walk down it, its too steep, and you cant see what you're meant to see from it (an old battery left over from the mines) but we finished early which was good. egged it up the track to the van after work, really pushed myself - i was frustrated - and got very minging like id been in a sauna, only with mud and plant on me...showered immediately got back to the lodge! brew and a cookie with karl then we made mac and cheese, worked very well, better than the one we made in tawharanui 😊 beautiful evening, very warm, the sun was still shining bright as it set and there were loads of birds singing. i went back to my fir tree but the sandflies found me 😞 bumped into karl on the way back to the lodge and walked with him.
THURS - rowan hunt again this morning until about 11.30 then cleaned the house and drove back to punakaiki (short
week as sam has to drive to christchurch on friday to take jack back and pick up new vols who he will bring back on monday). greymouth on the way back, robert harris again, back to the house. internet, booked my flight home 😞 jacket potatoes cheese and beans for food tonight then we went to the beach for a fire! was brilliant! all of us went down and were there for about 2.5hrs 😊 the fire kept the sandflies away which was even better. jack bought marshmallows for us and gave us a beer bless him, earlier him and lukas went fishing, caught 2 so he cooked them on the fire, then sam went up to the house to get us veggies bananas and nutella for the fire 😊 looking back on the mountains from the beach was pretty good as the clouds were rolling down their sides. stood and watched/listened to the waves for a while with karl then back to the lodge.
FRI - had a day off today because sam went to chch. up at about 10, had brekki of poached eggs on toast 😊 rang up scotty (my best girlfriend at home) and chatted
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Marble Leaf for an hour :D was brilliant talking to her, its been so long!!!! put my skydive pics up on my blog (have a look at them) then tried to get up to date with my other photos but the computer wont read the discs they are on!!! noooooo! i would have been able to get them all up by the end of this weekend, free internet, nothing to do!!! boo rubbish boo!!! watched family guy the movie with karl then bed.
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