Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The Final Countdown!
Been in Mission Beach for 7 weeks now and not quite sure where the time has gone! We are now into the final few days before reopening, all the furniture is pretty much in place and there is now a linen distributing / curtain hanging / window cleaning / bathroom tiling type frenzy happening. Will be around 70 guests arriving on saturday, think this will be a bit of a shock to the system after there only being around 10-15 of us for so long!
Getting warmer now too, is hot and sunny almost every day now and this week have had very calm seas perfect for an afternoon swim.
What do you do when the floor is being polished?....have lunch on the driveway of course
A rather large cricket
Monitor lizard spotted in forest
Getting warmer now too, is hot and sunny almost every day now and this week have had very calm seas perfect for an afternoon swim.
What do you do when the floor is being polished?....have lunch on the driveway of course
A rather large cricket 
Monitor lizard spotted in forest
Monday, August 14, 2006
Am now into week 5 in the rainforest and loving it! Just under 3 weeks left until the reopening and the race against time is on to get everything finished. The place consists of 16 basic huts and 7 more luxurious cabins, plus the main building and yoga house. The last couple of weeks I have been busy removing cyclone debris from the huts then cleaning and painting them, leg muscles are now improving as the whole place is built on what feels like the steepest hill known to man (driveway is on a 45 degree incline!). Have also been enjoying looking after Zoe (4) and Evie (6) (children of the owners Paul & Susan) who are always keen to help out with the painting and decorating (with varying degrees of success!).
Last week I also did my bit to help save the cassowaries and spent a morning at the nearby cassowary rehabilitation centre helping to chop fruit to go to the feeding stations in the area. This place also looks after injured and orphaned cassowaries (baby cassowary pic below). Am not cooking so much now as the chef is now back in employment and provides us with delicious lunch and dinner every day, I think I have struck wwoofing gold here!
Baby cassowary, was found starving in a sugar cane field, now on the mend!
Chopping fruit for the cassowaries
A close encounter of the cassowary kind
Huge swarm of bees that arrived last week
Last week I also did my bit to help save the cassowaries and spent a morning at the nearby cassowary rehabilitation centre helping to chop fruit to go to the feeding stations in the area. This place also looks after injured and orphaned cassowaries (baby cassowary pic below). Am not cooking so much now as the chef is now back in employment and provides us with delicious lunch and dinner every day, I think I have struck wwoofing gold here!
Baby cassowary, was found starving in a sugar cane field, now on the mend!
Chopping fruit for the cassowaries
A close encounter of the cassowary kind
Huge swarm of bees that arrived last week
The main building (soon to be restuarant) currently prime location for important activities such as hide & seek and tic!
Hut & Cabins
Yoga house, currently home to the beds which survived the cyclone. Myself and fellow wwoofers (currently 7 of us) live in downstairs rooms with an assorted array of reptiles!
