Starting with pictures:
I know these are all blurry, but i still love them
tree swings on the beach!
Bonfire on the beach with new wwoofer friends
Driving Creek Railroad
View from the eye-full tower
Cafe pics! 
Coffee break...uncooperative smilers
Tamara and I after a hard days work
Beach walk 
On the walk home from the beach today!Hola!
So I've been in Coromandel for a little over a week and its been really great. The work is a bit tedious at times, seeing as most of cafe work is doing dishes and cleaning up after people. But I've had some fun moments where I've gotten to bake some of the goodies and plant peas in the garden out back. The people are so fun and we joke around a lot and of course I get teased all the time (in a friendly sarcastic way of course). The other wwoofers are SO fun and we all hang out in the cafe after it closes (it is sort of a home base for us, since our bunk house is right behind the cafe!). The weather here has just been phenomenal and the sunsets are astounding! Seriously, they are just beautiful. On the first night I got here, mehow, the cafe owner took us all to the hot springs in whitianga, which were so relaxing and fun. The next day all us wwoofers went to one of the beachers (there are a bunch!) and had a bonfire. Since then I've been to a few other beaches and they are all so calm and beautiful.
On my first day off I explored a little bit of the town and discovered that just two doors down was the driving creek railroad attraction. It started out with this nz-famous pottery artist who started a artist co-op on his land. In order to extricate clay and bring it back to the co-op, he started to hand build a little railway. Eventually this small diy project became a bit of a hobby and it continued to grow longer and longer, winding endlessly through the bush and up the hills. After finding himself in quite a bit of debt the bank suggested that he start hosting guests on his railway and the idea stuck. It was never his intention to use the railway to get rich and so all the money and proceeds go back into the land in which the railway is a part. He has planted countless native trees and is trying to get the area recognized as a national park area. Anyway, obviously i think that is cool, but the ride was really fun! There was tons of sculptures along the way and beautiful views from the top of the hill. He built a little house called the 'eye-full tower' which looks out over the peninsula. It was just gorgeous, I could not have picked a better day.
So the past three days I have had off and the first two I spent mostly in the cafe because it was rainy and gross outside, it was really fun though because I felt like I got to know everyone in the cafe a little better, and I feel a little bit more connected to this place now. It was kind of interesting at the beginning because the people who work here regularly are so used to having wwoofers filter in and out of here that they hardly notice you are really there unless you make yourself known. I guess I've established myself now though, because I get teased a lot for never sitting still and bouncing around the cafe on my tippy toes with my knitting. lol.
Today was really fun too, there is this tiny little house out behind the cafe that is used to house one of the wwoofers, it is so cute but the outside needed some serious help. Even though it was our day off, my friend tamara and i decided to paint it and make it look nice. We painted the whole thing and it looks wonderful now! That was actually pretty fun and then Mehow was so thankful that he drove us to the beach and we spent the rest of the day loungin in the sun.
Back to work tomorrow, but it's been nice to have these days off to relax and do some nice things in the area.
More to come soon!
