Up ready for 9, we headed down to the workshop prepared to hear what exciting work we would be doing this week. We drove down and then followed the manager down to our new site. We got there and stepped out the van, greeted by.... Planting. Again. The shovels, gloves, secatares, and new Zealand flax were greeted with a groan. Althought new leader Mark was brilliant, I think that some people were a bit knocked out of sorts by Tom leaving, and everyone was a little down in the dumps. The three week point in our trip also saw some characteristics showing that caused friction between some group members at certain times, and being thrust into such close living quarters again, they flared up even more so. Not everyone was on the job as much as hoped, and it was as though the grey clouds could at any point cause a downpour!! We were planting in an attempt to section of a paddock from illegal spotlighters and poachers after the Red Deer that graze the area. Instead of little sproutlings, we were planting Flax, whiteywood, kanukas, and punga amongst other plants that had been taken up from elsewhere on the site.
The day seemed to last forever, only split by a small break for lunch on the beach.
Finished much later than the half days in Mimiwhangata, we rolled in to the lodge at 4:30pm. After showers, warming up, drying out, and scraping the mud out from under the fingernails, everyone appeared to be in a much better mood. A fantastic curry we a HEAP of rice later, we were playing catchphrase as a group, poisonous frog, and pass the sign and after this a card game called Mafia - introduced by sachin. It was a long days work - bed please!
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