Current Location: Paihia, Aotearoa
I sort of said goodbye this morning to Alex, Miranda, and the silly Austrian Elizabeth. Alex and Miranda had the next set of wwoofers come in last night as I had been planning on leaving the day before that on my way down the coast but postponed it to get a decent day sailing on the boat. It probably turned out to be the right decision as we got to go fishing yesterday and I landed about 5 fish the largest one being 10lbs. We had an absolutely amazing day on the boat with perfect weather and enough fish to feed 7 people and my big one left to smoke this morning before I left.
The day before that we went on a horse trek with Miranda and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is an accomplished rider unlike me so had a much easier time than I did. We got to ford some rivers and gallop up hills this time. I managed to do much better this time and stay on the horse the entire time and had much more control than the last time thanks to some tips from Elizabeth.
The reason I ‘kinda’ said goodbye to Alex and Miranda is I’m sticking around in Paihia until Wednesday night to go sailing on Mr. Wolf in the club race. So I’ll be hanging around Paihia for a few days, mostly because I’m in no rush to get back to Auckland sooner than I have to. Tentatively the plan is to leave on the 20th to Thailand which it turns out isn’t that far away, fortunately it should take me 2 or 3 days to make it back to Auckland leaving me one or two days to sort everything out and get ready for the next leg of the trip.