From November 15th until Christmas I spent my time in the neat little town of Pukenui in the far north of New Zealand working as an avocado-picker. Here are some impressions from the Holiday Park I stayed at (together with all the other workers) and my job.
Those cabins would be our home for the next 5 weeks.
View from our cabin onto the bathroom and kitchen buildings.
Our kitchen and terrace with the barbecue.
Kitchen, bathroom and lounge from the back.
Our kitchen at the Holiday Park.
View from the terrace down onto the lower parts of the Holiday Park.
The upper part of the camp site where some of my co-workers (all of them Canadians) slept in their vans.
Rows of avocado trees in the orchard.
The avos are either picked by hand, if they are low enough to reach them, or with a pole like the one in the picture. The poles vary in length (between 1 and 4 meters) and have a scissor on top to cut the avocados loose from the stalk. On a typical 8 hour day our crew of 12 students and backpackers would pick around 30 000 avocados.
And last but not least a few pictures from our local beach in Pukenui where we could relax after a hard days work.
And on the weekends we drove to Ahipara or the 90 Mile Beach to go surfing.
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