All this fun and games is great, but at some point we have to go back to work! After our tour of the Northland, we went to Kaipara, about an hour out of Auckland- to start a Helpx workstay. Helpx is a website, similar to WOOFing, that connects traveling holidaymakers with locals that need part time help. Its a work for accommodation system, usually half a days work for room and board. Its perfect for us because we just want to save on living costs now and then, plus we get to meet some real local kiwis!
Our first stay was at a chestnut orchard. No chestnuts this time of year as its a fall harvest, but there were other trees- we had lots of fun picking lemons, limes and avocados.
Our host was very good to us, I helped him frame up a new living quarters for future helpxers, and Jill did some gardening, chestnut machine cleaning, and cleaned up the macadamias.
We got to explore the area as well, there were some nice walks nearby. Our favorite part was his 2 dogs, they were brother and sister and loads of fun. These are the world's most competetive dogs, you throw the stick and they both pick it up and just fight over it, always trying to one-up each other.
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