Experience life in this unique off the grid place in the outer Pelorus Sound, New Zealand

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  We (Natalie and Gavin) are in the outer Pelorus sounds, boat access only.We eat a lot of seafood and locally caught wild game, our own sheep and try to grow our own veg. We use solar power. Love of the remote quiet life is essential. We are not fully organic as Wakatahuri is a boat building bay with a working slip way.In the bay are: Gavin (4th generation owner of the land), fisherman and boat builder, Natalie, cook, gardener and worker organiser,Polly the dog, Mog the cat, fat sheep : Smurfette, Doris, Dolly, Rowlock, Starboard, Fairlead and some lambs, Goats : LillyPing and her babies and some chooks.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Manutenção geral
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  We live off grid, partly self sufficiently. I hunt and butcher all our meat, and for people with the right attitude am prepared to take helpers hunting. I make my own bread and can offer spinning and knitting skills to learn. We are also boaties, so rowing, sculling and fishing are on offer. We have kayaks and canoes and in summer swimming and diving.

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  Ajuda

  Who we are looking for:
  People who are fit energetic and love the sea, and who can handle remoteness and our clutter and that the goats eat breakfast inside.
  Most of our work is fairly physical - Scrub cutting, fencing, digging, fire wood, tree planting and there are some lighter work like wood borer treating timber, weeding, painting and general maintenance work.
  
  
  My current projects are: firewood , Firewood, using the digger to make new roads, Cottage restoration and a big beach erosion project. And building new gardens.
  
  Internet is very limited- not enough to download movies, but enough to send emails and do a little social media.

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente

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  Acomodação

  Double beds in sleepouts, sharing the family house for meals and general living. I do most of the cooking as I only shop every couple of months.

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  Algo mais...

  Sorry but at the moment we can not cater for vegetarians or other special dietary requirements.
  We expect 4 hours work in return for a bed (double rooms in the comfy outside sleepout), 5 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, morning (if your up early enough) and afternoon tea),the odd glass of homebrew beer and the use of our recreational gear - sea kayaks, canoes, dingies, fishing gear. We have little blue penguins in the bay. Minimum stay needs to be at least 10 days as its a 5 hour round trip to Elaine bay. The Havelock mailboat on its Friday round is also a transport option and is $5

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode aceitar animais

  So long as they aren't going to eat my animals.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação

  sheep

  Various sheep, sometimes with lambs

  Goats

  I have one pet goat - Lillyping.
  She however has a family.
  Cardamon- currently with baby.
  Anise - has twin girls
  Troy (the destroyer, lethal on the contents of the coffee table)
  They all come inside for breakfast.

  Chickens

  Various Chickens. Including a rooster.
  

  Mog

  I am my own person .
  I don't like being picked up.
  I love my chin bring rubbed and demand a firm towel rubbing if I come inside wet.

  Polly

  Very friendly.
  She firmly believes everyone loves her and greats every stranger with a view to hugs and kisses.
  Lethal on possums (her job)
  Very barking when fishing

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