28 th September 2011,

Time sure goes fast when you are having fun. It has been 5 weeks working at Waverley building fences and gates and tidying the property up. All looking great.




 


 


John & Brian building a gate




Fence that John built



On the 8th Sept we left Waverley for Russell for a job interview working at the Top10 Holiday park over the summer  period. There were 5 couples that applied for this position. Sad to say we were not successful.
We stayed at Mercer Track stop on our way to the Covi Motorhome show in Auckland. Here we met up with our friends Peter and Barb, Kath and Andy . What a great place to park up over night. Lovely and quiet and its free.We watched the All Blacks play Tonga  a great game 41 - 10 to the All Blacks in the Irish Pub at the truck stop. A very friendly Pub and a great atmosphere.  Pete brought a sign with him to put on the back of our bus as a surprise. Poor John had a early morning call to get up and clean the back window so Pete could do his thing. Thanks Pete we have had a lot a neat comments.


Pete & Barb at work again




The results GO THE ALL BLACKS

 While we were up here we visited Jill and Irwin Wilson at their Paihia apartment. It  sure is a beautiful spot to wake up in the morning.

Paihia early morning




Paihia early morning

 


35 deg  Resturant Paihia



Opua Wharf



Kiwikoala on the ferry to Russell



Uriti here we come. Uriti is just a hour north of New Plymouth on the way to Hamilton. Our friends Jack and June Davis have a  beef and sheep farm there . John offered June some help some 12 months ago to redo the bathroom ceiling for them. June finally said yes, so down with the old pinex and up with the new gib. Once this was done then to painting it. It sure made a great difference. Then John offered to help paint the pantry and wall paper it to get it completed before the auction.
While we were here we also helped feed motherless lambs and did some docking and drenching of the new lambs.  The opportunity also came up for us to go to a Bull auction, Jack  wanted 2 - 3 bulls for the farm. John having brought bulls when he was working with Irwin enjoyed looking over the stock and helping Jack decide what to bid for. It was a enjoyable time at the farm  except for the weather it nearly rain every day.



Wild goats on the farm



Looking down the farm



John plasting walls in the pantry



Jack mixing calf food




June feeding calves




Food yummy

 



Breakfast time



Cock and his lady's



Lambakin (let me out)



Coloured waterfall Pukekura Park New Plymouth



Fountain in Lake at park



Walk bridge over lake



Fairyland at the park



Award wining design for cycle and walk  bridge New Plymouth

  
Back to Paihia we went to Irwin's 80ths birthday. It was a lovely weekend catching up with Irwins family. We left Pahia and made our way back via Kaikohe and then down the Mangakahia valley to Whatitiri. It was interesting driving along and coming across kiwi's painted on the road. This was to inform us of  kiwi's that live in amongest the native plants etc in this area.



John,  Jill and Irwin



Ben putting a All Black  tattoo on Irwins head



BeAware live Kiwi's





Haruru Falls Bay of Island



As we did not know when we would be back in the Whangarei area we visited Grant & Jan , Heidi & Steve then made our way to Pukekohe and visited Lorriane and Mike. While here John helped Mike lay 12metres of  concrete on their driveway at 7.00am, this took 4 hours.
We are now back at Waverley finishing the painting and building the front fence.

A great All Black player



Found this van at Paihia Parked up





Goal Posts on a plumbing supplier Wall at Huntly





Manganese Point Auckland

Our next adventure starts in mid November, when John and I are leaving for Aussie to live. We will be working  and visiting some wonderful new places (Watch this space)