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Today supplied a significant day in our travels so far as it took us into the sequoia lodge family. We were relaxing in the evening and got talking to some of the workers(woofers) at the hostel. They informed us that they needed a couple of people to work there for a minimum of 2 weeks and as we are a couple of people it sounded perfect. We got trained up in the basic jobs the next day and started on Thursday 12th. Our days consisted of around two hours work from 10am until midday then after having tea and cookies with the gang we would relax around Picton and the stunning Marlborough sounds. As we both had a driving license we were also required to do drop off and pick ups from the ferry as Picton is where the ferry to north island is situated. This unfortunately meant than we had to go at 5pm when we were on driving duty, which limited the free time we had to explore in the afternoons. Some of the local beaches included great spots for mussel picking and crab spotting, although not convinced on the mussel front we just liked searching for the largest crab most of the time. Evenings we're often spend in the luxurious tv lounge in the hostel which we renowned for 'living' in! Of course the chocolate pudding and ice cream was utilised every night of the week. After a week and a half it was time to say farewell to 3 of our fellow woofers and by this time our friends. We saw them off at the ferry and were left in charge as the experienced woofers, a worrying thought ay!? We welcomed the newcomers into the woofers dorm with open arms and they soon came aware of the worlds noisiest bunk bed that we were sleeping on that literally sounded like an earthquake if either of us moved. We soon had them trained up in no time. We made full use of their cooking ability too, in particular on one night when we had woofers dinner jeff made around 8 Chinese dishes each of which was unbelievably tasty. The previous dinner cooked for us was a roast dinner which is one the things we were both very much missing from back home. A couple of nights were spent in the local irish bar with our hostel rivals at The Villa. A good group of people, predommonently German. We also bumped into some familiar faces including two Japanese guys we met at Takaka. Also someone from Milton Keynes who Ian knew which was strange. Before we knew it the two weeks were up and after a lot of movies (one of which was hostel, not the best choice whilst in a hostel), new friends and a huge amount of chocolate pudding and ice cream it was time for us to leave and move onto kaikora the crayfish capital of the world.
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