Camp sitters

June 2010

We took a week off work this month to look after a holiday park. Friends of ours manage the Mercury Bay Holiday Park in Whitianga and we held the fort for them while they went to a conference.

We spent a lovely few days in this holiday park in January - absolutely the high season for the Coromandel. Whitianga is a very different place in winter, reverting to a more typical small country town. You can still get great coffee and food there in winter though.

Part of our reason for camp sitting was to get some experience which might help us in our new lifestyle. We got to learn how to use the booking system, make up the rooms and do the general camp cleaning. I wouldn't say we got a lot of experience though - we got more activity through the phone and email than from actual visitors.

None of this was helped by a week of almost constant rain. On our last night there Whitianga was completely cut off by road - slips to the north and flooding to the south.