Te Puke - Kiwi Fruit Capital

For the Month of July and a week of August ive been staying in a small town outside the small city of Tauranga. Te Puke is the kiwi fruit capital of the world. Its the where most of the kiwi fruit is grown and all that kinda jazz. Because i've only got 5 weeks untill im leaving back to ireland i reckoned that my best bet was to go to Te Puke and see what orchard work was like.

Im living in a hostel with around 20 people. Its called "The Lodge" and is just 10 min walk out of town. Its a great hostel with a very homely away from home feel. Because all of the guests here are working and not just here for the sites. So there's a great feel around the place with everyone in similar postitions trying to get some money together.
Im in an 8 bedroom dorm with just 3 other people. Lucitio from Brazil, Rodgrio from Chile & Daniel from Chile aswell. These guys are a great laugh Daniel is a heavy metal singer from chile who snores like a mad chap, Lucitio is a young Brazilian footballer and Rodrigo just rocks. Rodgrio & lucio are both learning English so we've had fun sitting down and practicing with eachother so thats been great. Then there is Jakob from Germany who i drive to work with everyday and plenty of others floating about

Aussie East Coast

Next stop on the cards was a brief spell in Brisbane with Mark & Wes and there lovely lady friends. I was flying to Auckland via brisbane so I reckoned a 4 day stop was a good option after all it had been a good 15 months since our morocco trip so brisbane was a must.
We spent the 4 nights in there savage pad out the back of some dudes house. Its was a mini house/ apartment inclosed in the Australian bush kind of anyway. Enough to get me on the look out for some killer spiders & snakes. Which I found. On the last day we did some work for the guy who owns the main house who Mark & Wes are renting off and we were moving Wood from underneath the flat. Not exactly an ideal job shifting wood in the middle of trees under a house, seriously scary stuff and Myself & Mark weren't exactly the best at pretending that we weren't scared there was no hiding it we were petrified. But we made $70 so it was enough to come away from brisbane with a profit so that was a great bonus for risking my life looking for red back spiders.
There was plenty of action in aussie with even a game of monopoly which I happily turned Mark & emily against eachother and then got wes onto my side to turn everyone against eachother and then all on my team so I cleaned up with lovely hotels all round.
Myself and Wes made our way out to visit the Brisbane Ywam Base aswell. This has been the home of a few friends over the past couple of years so I reckoned I should pop in and see the place and all that jazz
Myself, Emily & Clare got to play in the water downtown at bayside with all sorts of fun and my cloths were still wet on the plane 6 hours later so that wasn't the best idea I guess.
And last but not least we had the wonderful escort of Wendy a 13 tone Yellow tank to drive around in. Arriving off the plane to be greeted by this wonderful piece of work.