G'day from Oamaru! We've been pretty busy and on the go most days since we left Blenheim. When we last posted i think we were in Nelson, in some bad rain awaiting to see if we could book anything for the Abel Tasman. Well, whilst in Nelson we did go to a bone carving workshop and both produced something unique to us and were told about their meanings from the Maori belief. It was good fun, a nice small group of 6 (including us) and everyone came up with somethin...

Hello everyone! It's been quite a while since we last wrote anything on here, and as we will soon be heading down the West coast of the South Island we figured it'd be a good time to update it before! So to recent news, we have now finished working at Stoneleigh! After 8 weeks of work, including one of handpicking! We were handpicking grapes for both Stoneleigh and the other Montana vineyards around Blenheim, some Pinot, champagne, chardonnay and i'm sure some ...

Hello everyone! Sorry that we haven't really updated the blog recently, but we've been very much busy with working. We're still at Stoneleigh, and planning on finishing there on the 19th March so not long left to go! Our plan after finishing is to head over to Nelson and the Abel Tasman Park for some sea kayaking for a few days before making our way down the island to Queenstown. After spending some time there, we'll head back up the East coast to Christchurch...

Hello everyone! We do hope you're all well and thank you for the emails we've been getting. it's lovely to hear from you! We are now in Blenheim, well, more towards Renwick, but we have a job! We are now working at Stoneleigh's (owned by Pernod Ricard, who also own Montana) on the vineyards from 7am until about 3.30pm. It's long, boring, hot work but it does pay and thankfully as we haven't been hired through a contractor, we actually get paid! We had heard a ...

Hello everyone! We do hope you are all well. We have now migrated to the South Island! We arrived yesterday after a VERY rough and windy crossing for 3 and a half hours on the BlueBridge ferry. We spent most of the time outside on the side of the ship watching the waves crashing and the ship bobbing up and down like a cork! Sitting inside was not a good plan.... the motion made both of us feel a bit ill! We did have a bit of a mare when trying to get off the f...