wanaka

Mark’s group was leaving Queenstown today to head to Milford Sound, so I said goodbye to him this morning and headed north to Wanaka. I’d been toying with the idea of WWOOFing at a sheep farm in South Otago, owned by the partner of a guest who was at Pujjis last month, so I gave the farmer a call when I was halfway to Wanaka to see if he needed any help. Ironically, he was up in Nelson when I called and had just visited Jane, but he has room for one more WWOOFer in addition to the long-term one he already has.

I’d heard Wanaka was kind of Queenstown for Kiwis (I hardly ran into any ‘natives’ in Qtown) and that most prefer it there. It was really gorgeous, and didn’t have as much of a commercial feel to it, so I can see why. It was also really windy, though, so I ate my lunch in the car and headed to the farm.