Volunteering, Online Writing & Sheep

I have a volunteer job! It's through Volunteering Auckland, an organization that places volunteers in over 400 charities and community organizations. It's only one day a week but, hey, it keeps me off the streets. I'm helping them write their annual report then making a video on how to ask for money.

Guess what? I am now the New Zealand Travel Examiner at Examiner.com. I'm imploring EVERYONE to subscribe to my articles by going to the following webpage:

www.examiner.com/x-57822-New-Zealand-Travel-Examiner

SHEEP, SHEEP, EVERWHERE A SHEEP. Well, it's not true!

I've seen very few sheep and a lot of cattle, of all things. Apparently all those NZ sheep are frolicking around the South Island, not the North Island where I am.

SHOPPING CARTS & MISSION BAY

Kia Ora (Welcome or G'Day!)

A trundler is a shopping cart. Not a golf cart, 18 wheeler truck, baby stroller or peddler of wares as some of you guessed. If you guessed correctly...good on ya, you're an Honorary Kiwi! If not, well...you're a confirmed Yank.

And now for more on the HOOD...MISSION BAY!

A mere twenty minute walk from the house is a lovely shop-lined street with a beach and a bay called MISSION BAY. You can see the iconic landmark island named RANGITOTO, the youngest volcano in Auckland and home to 200 species of native plants including 40 ferns.

Overhead in the next pic of the bay is the signature cloud which prompted the native Maori to name New Zealand, AOTEAROA, meaning "the land of the long white cloud."