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We are a friendly family living on Kaurna country in a wonderful old seaside home in urban Henley Beach, known as "The Seaview Zoo" about 7 km from the centre of Tarndanya- Adelaide.
We are lucky to live here and love to share our home and life with others.
There is public transport (bus) close by and good cycling paths. We may have bikes available for you to use.
We are continuously creating this urban permaculture art project (we live in it) whilst running a family business (we are both Physiotherapists) and have brought our 3 kids Olivia 24, Noah 23, and Xavier 15 up to live and learn through the richness of life, without school. Hosting travellers in our home since 2007 has been a big part of this!
Our lives and hosting are an experiment in creating a community where we support each other to explore and succeed in our individual passions, projects and talents and come together daily usually over food to work on this one big idea that is the place we live all together -we call it The Seaview Zoo.
As a workawayer staying with us we welcome you into this project and invite you to explore the reciprocity with us.
We are all trying to learn Greek so would LOVE anyone that can help us with that.
Olivia and Noah are young adults themselves now, working and travelling with their various friends and partners. They still live at the Seaview Zoo.
Xavier is your typical teenager, often up late, having friends over, sometimes grumpy and he enjoys a good conversation.
He loves to talk, is curious about new people, likes playing games, riding his mountain bike, blacksmithing and welding and is very playful.
Nick loves bushwalking and cycle touring when he is not working, and would love help completing the many small construction projects and home maintenance tasks he would love to be doing himself but has little time for at the moment.
(building retaining walls, chopping wood, painting, etc).
Nicole loves gardening and travelling and creating an interesting life and loves help with cooking, gardening, composting, seasonal food preservation, feeding and making food for the animals and often company on road trips and foraging expeditions! She also loves getting time to herself which doesn't happen very often - so gratitude if you can help with this.
We all love to welcome guests as part of the family and are happy to show you interesting places or invite you with us to family events and such.
We try to match the work with your passions and skills so let us know what they are.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda informática
Intereses
Libros
Trabajo de caridad
Vida en autocaravana
Autodesarrollo
Cultura
Agricultura
Jardinería
Cocina y alimentación
Animales
Arte y diseño
Arquitectura
Actividades al aire libre
Naturaleza
Montaña
Deportes de invierno
Senderismo
Fitness
Ciclismo
Acampada
Playa
Deportes de aventura
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Nicole knows a lot about local culture, ecology, and is interested and learning more and more about indigenous Kaurna culture and its local bush foods.
She loves to cook tasty healthy local food and share recipes and will make sure to make a great "Australian" pavlova sometime during your stay.
You might earn a lot about creative education movement sometimes known as *️unschooling*️.
And obviously English.
Also you could learn what we know about: permaculture design, earthbag construction, organic low tox living, our approach to healing injuries and movement therapies (McKenzie physiotherapy, nutrition, pilates rehab etc), business management, passive solar living.
We are also fascinated to learn what you are passionate about and share many travelling tales.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
We are completing minor construction and landscaping projects around the house it would be great to have help with depending on your skills available.
Aside from that general household activities like cooking food preserving (picking up and sorting walnuts and chestnuts in season, tomatoes and grapes etc!) and gardening, wood collecting, chopping and storing.
We have recently become custodians of a beautiful small farm we are developing in the Adelaide hills, so some of the work can be there too.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Greek: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Japonés: FluidoEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
Este anfitrión ha indicado que está interesado en compartir su idioma o aprender otro.
Ponte en contacto con él para obtener más información.
Alojamiento
Options are, a double sofa bed in our spare room inside the house, the mezzanine bedroom in our handmade earthbag dome (involves a ladder), in the back of our campervan if it's available, in a traditional aussie swag on the back lawn.
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We have been hosting home stay guests since 2007. Prior to workaway mainly through word of mouth recommendations, and some couch surfers. In 2024 we travelled to Mexico to visit our first ever workawayer - Alfonso- it was so cool to see him and how he lives in Mexico.
We love the inspiration and connection that hosting travellers and other homestayers have brought to our lives.
Henley Beach has a great village like atmosphere, with lots to enjoy and everything you need within walking distance.
Henley Square is a great place to soak up Australian culture on a sunny Sunday morning, with restaurants and cafes. There are 2 great cycling access routes - the 70km Coast Park Adelaide walking/ cycle path, and the linear park - a 30 km cycle/walking trail connection the city centre (40 min ride) to the hills and sea via a trail along Karra Wirra Parri (River Torrens)
We are happy to share our bikes, stand up paddle board and surf ski etc with visitors so you too can enjoy our great seaside lifestyle.
Aside from this the city centre is easily accessed by the H30 bus which stops about 200m away.
Nick and Noah are working full time at present, Nicole works only part time so she is often going to camps and events for home education gatherings, or taking Xavier and friends to home education meetups and classes etc
We live with the goal of mutual respect for kids and adults alike and something that is very important to us is that we equally respect all household members needs for feeling safe without intrusion on other peoples private space.
We expect workawayers to treat our young people with the kind of respect you would like to be treated with.
We value clear communication so if something is bothering you please talk to us!
We eat mostly organic, fresh home cooked local food, sourced from farmers we know and trust.
Morning coffee is an important ritual and your first lessons will likely be how to use the Italian espresso coffee machine, and how to empty and stack the dishwasher, something Nick is particularly keen on.
We include workawayers in our regular evening meal plans and you may prepare your own breakfast daytime meals/snacks from what we have available.
We eat an omnivorous diet, and can generally accomodate vegetarian diet and other variations - gluten / lactose free etc, as we can work around it and we generally eat greek style with many small plates.
We enjoy good food and wine but excessive alcohol or any drug use won't be tolerated here.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
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Mis animales / mascotas
Ocea / Osha Australian Kelpie (1 año)
Ocea was born in country NSW one of many pups born to an abandoned farm dog. We adopted her through Australian Working dog rescue in 2024 to help look after our house and a fox took our chickens.
She is very energetic and being a herding dog likes it best when she has us all in check. She loves playing herding games especially on the beach, playing chasey around the house, going for walks and smelling all the smells and especially chasing cats (🙈) which we are trying to train her not to do.
We pick up her poop off the grass every morning to play ball.
We are training her not to jump on people but she often forgets and gets too excited.
Pippin Cat (otherwise known as Puss /Kitty) (13 años)
We adopted Pippin sometime in 2012 when our house was over run with rats! Rats were eating every fruit or vegetable we tried to grow. She came along and removed all the rats from her territory, and still to this day she is a committed and ferocious rat hunter.
She is wild at heart but loves to sit by the fire on a winters night when the dog is in bed, and laze in the sun in the garden out of sight of the dog!
Gypsy (2 años)
Gypsy came to us as a homeless foster kitten and we fell in love with her so the Seaview Zoo is her forever home now.
She’s a bit shy and very scared of Ocea Dog so she mostly hangs out upstairs or outside. She loves company and enjoys sleeping on people too.
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She is happy, positive, thoughtful and flexible and easily integrated in our family… read more
They are both designers, and think deeply about the world and how to make things better, and now here they are here learning and doing many things outside of the box of their previous reality!
Very brave!
They spent many weeks designing and… read more
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She is happy, positive, thoughtful and flexible and easily integrated in our family… read more
They are both designers, and think deeply about the world and how to make things better, and now here they are here learning and doing many things outside of the box of their previous reality!
Very brave!
They spent many weeks designing and… read more
As much as we love hosting young people with all their youthful energy , it was so wonderful to have someone with so much life experience to come and stay with us.
Outi is amazing, highly organised and principled, and yet curious and flexible, she was able to go with the flow in our sometimes… read more
Their house and its setting are beautiful - sunsets on the beach just around the corner and all the delights of Adelaide just a walk, bike ride, bus trip or short drive away.
The jobs I did were suited to… read more
The workload was fair and in my 3 weeks there I feel like I picked up new practical skills that I have already been able to use on my travels after leaving.
You're not going to find a better location around here for a Workaway, it's next to a lovely… read more
He tackled the jobs with infectious enthusiasm despite the frequently very hot temperatures.
He’s happy to work on his own, and is a great team player working with other workawayers too.
Dan knows his limits and abilities, and is happy to give most things a go.
He’s… read more
He was happy to go with the flow though, even happily squeezing his tall frame into the loft of our earth bag dome to sleep.
Conor made a huge dent in our woodpile, splitting, cutting and restacking, just in time for the cooler
weather to arrive.
We… read more
He got stuck in and demolished a chicken coop, and other random garden structures, sold some things on marketplace for me, joined Xavier with some mountain biking, and learned how to change the oil on his beloved ute.
Sounds like your trip is going great Hidde,… read more
She was a pleasure to have around, quiet and clean yet helpful, coming to ask what she could do to help.
She was willing to get her hands dirty and so hard work and assisted in demolishing a shed roof at our farm, cooked… read more
Xavier (13) loved hanging out with you, you really helped a grumpy teenager get out of his shell and socialise again.
You also helped so neatly dismantle an old chicken coop, and put together a new one, the chicks are now huge and… read more
I looked after the kittens which was the best job I ever worked. I love animals and the small babys were so cuute. I will… read more
She is curious, open, energetic, and flexible, hard working and was willing to turn her hand and try anything.
Fabulous with kids. My son absolutely adored her playfulness and they did heaps together allowing me to therefore get heaps… read more
The family were so welcoming, they took me with them on snorkeling trips, home-school camping adventures, and even invited me to join them in Tasmania (i sadly couldn't go due to other… read more
How could i forget to write your feedback!
This was my last experience of 2 years in Australia and it was just perfect.
I was really tired after working with oranges and i needed a place to rest but I also wanted to learn something more, always!
So here I found this incredibly beautiful house, very close to the center yet a little… read more
It was an absolute gift since my father was dying and I (Nicole) was spending long hours away caring for him.
Beatrice was able to quietly and calmly keep things going here at home, taking Xavier to his activities, keeping the home fires burning in this crazy time, and… read more
They are helpful In the household and flexible and open to whatever work comes up.
We hope your trip is everything you hoped for guys and wish you well for the future whatever it may bring you!
Best wishes for your journey and sorry for the delay in this feedback.
Right off the bat Nicole picked us up from the airport at 11pm at night, got us settled in with a cup of tea and our own private space in the studio out back with a basket of… read more
From having a great bush experience camping with us and the cockatoos in the Gariwerd/Grampians national park to cooking up crepes for a crowd to skilfully preparing the base layer of the earth floor in our earthbag dome this workaway exchange demonstrated complete synchronicity.
It’s so inspiring to meet a young… read more
Warm welcoming, full of kindness and sharing their time, food, life with you!
I felt me part of the family first day I arrived, and I had pleasure to share time with all the members of this family !
Thank you Nicole, Nick, Olivia, Noah, Xavier, Lilou, and all… read more
She quickly slipped right into our sometimes busy family life like a big sister, despite this being her first workaway experience.
She made great friends with our kids and spent many nice hours by the… read more
I had so much fun working and living At "the seaview zoo", in their beautiful and perfectly located house a stones throw from gorgeous Henley… read more
Thanks guys for all your hard work in the garden, washing cars and caring for children. That game of Cards against Humanity will be long remembered.
We hope your time in Australia has been everything you wished… read more
We always had the choice for the work we could do, from weeding, cleaning the car, or… read more
You worked hard and the food was AMAZING especially the lemon tarts haha.
We really hope the rest of… read more
