After Christmas, Gareth and I headed off to work in Central Otago for a few weeks. We got a job handing out flyers to the boaties at the Clyde Dam Boatramp about the Lagorosiphon infestation in Lake Dunstan and what they could do to stop spreading it. It was a sweet job- we sat in the shade of the van all day and read books- we only had to talk to the boaties when a new boat showed up. We lived out of our van ("Moa") parked at the boatramp for a week and a half, with occasional evenings at the Hartley Arms Backpackers in ... (more)