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# posted by Beth D @ 4:17 PM 
