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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
6 Jan 2025
Feedback
7
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Description
I live on Waiheke Island on a seaside block with boat only access. My place is 10 acres of regenerating bush siting right on the waters edge. I have a small orchard and some vegetable gardens that I am developing to produce a lot of the food I eat and I catch fish and collect shellfish from in front of my place. I am mostly vegetarian, whole food dairy free. I have power by solar pannels and harvest rain water. I have limited internet access via a hotspot from my cellphone. I am a non smoker.
Accommodation and food is provided in return for 3-4 hours work per day, 5 days a week.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Elderly Companionship
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
To practice English, gardening, and meet someone living a mostly self sufficient lifestyle on a block with only access being by a 3.6 metre dingy ride ,1. 25 km across the bay from the road end where my car is parked.
Help
The work is mainly gardening and compost making with some building work and track making. The compostIng involves collecting seaweed when available and lots of leaf litter. Also I have a motorised chipper to produce composting chips from a lot of encroaching bush.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Sleeping is all at one level with a curtain separating the host from the workawayers.
What else ...
When here, time off can be spent going for walks along the beach, I have a fibreglass dingy that can be rowed and a board that can be paddled. There is also swimming!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (4)
It’s a different experience and a lovely place !
The food was really good from the garden and the sea !
and we spend some good time around his garden, good conversation, I have learn so much with a different lifestyle.
Thank you John for this experience !
Really good time in Waiheke!
The evenings were very enjoyable too, as her English was exellent.
Overall it was a pleasure… read more
The place is stunning, and John is a great person! The work in the garden was fun and I enjoyed it a lot.
Since it is only accessible by boat there is no traffic and noise you can take a good break from the city!
You can explore the beautiful bay by walk or in a little boat like I did and loved!!
The food… read more
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It’s a different experience and a lovely place !
The food was really good from the garden and the sea !
and we spend some good time around his garden, good conversation, I have learn so much with a different lifestyle.
Thank you John for this experience !
Really good time in Waiheke!
The evenings were very enjoyable too, as her English was exellent.
Overall it was a pleasure… read more
The place is stunning, and John is a great person! The work in the garden was fun and I enjoyed it a lot.
Since it is only accessible by boat there is no traffic and noise you can take a good break from the city!
You can explore the beautiful bay by walk or in a little boat like I did and loved!!
The food… read more
I enjoyed staying the couple of days at John's, he is very friendly and a fun person.
Work was good and different… read more
