Katikati

Hi everyone,
Yet again sorry it has been a while since our last post. We are still working on the orchards and keeping very very busy doing all sorts of things, Simon is currently helping to build huge dome covers to go over the orchards while I am helping to  look after all the new plants that are growing. We are curently renting a cool little flat in a place called Ongare point near Katikati which is a little village where everyone knows all their neighbours and they are allways playing darts or going fishing or most often having a few beers!! One of our bosses aranged the flat for us and she lives just across the road, Simon has decided he doesnt want to go anywhere else now Im going to have a job to get him to move on to go see some more of NZ!! We have been on a couple of trips at weekends one of which was our anniversary weekend where i managed to get Si to come horseriding with me, unfortunatly it ended in a few fractured ribs for me and a few bruises for Simon, but hey we had fun anyway and pretty much all ok now!! So here are a few pics of what we have managed to do

Above and below is Ongare Point, this is a bout 20 seconds walk from our flat!

Our little flat, well part of it anyway!

Everyone owns their own little old tractor to tow their boats out to go fishing!!

One of the neighbours, Danny, took si out on his boat, he caught 3 red snapper and one Kauwai ( think thats how you spell it!) He was as you can imagine really chuffed with himself! The boat name sais it all!

This is the ranch we went to for our anniversary, it was a horse ranch with about 30 horses and they also had cows, chickens and sheep too, and a little vege garden which we could help ourselves too, It was near Whitianga in the Coromandle.

The bush bath at the ranch, it was wonderful but got very hot as you can probably imagine!

Simon looking very scared!!! This was pre falling off for both of us!

View over the Coromandle Peninsular, was stunning up there, glad we had horses to do all the hard work for us though!

Simon messing with his new toy in Whitianga.

Had a little gathering for my Birthday, Pip and John our landlords lent us this cool table. Clockwise from Andrea is Lynn, Bex, Max, Crocy, Ray, Bernice, Bo, Pip and John.

Well that is about it really. Now that the weather seems to be getting warmer and we're getting more sunny days we will hopefully be able to have a few adventures and some more photos to post soon!