Help our friendly family with various projects in Henley Beach, South Australia

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  Descrição

  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.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Interesses

  

  Livros

  

  Trabalho beneficente

  

  Vida na estrada

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Cultura

  

  Fazenda

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Culinária e comida

  

  Animais

  

  Arte e design

  

  Arquitetura

  

  Atividades ao ar livre

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Montanhas

  

  Esportes de inverno

  

  Caminhada

  

  Fitness

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Camping

  

  Praia

  

  Esportes de aventura
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  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.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  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.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Greek: Fluente
  Inglês: Fluente
  Japonês: Fluente

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  Este anfitrião indicou que tem interesse em compartilhar seu idioma ou em aprender um novo.
  Entre em contato com ele para obter mais informações.
  
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  Acomodação

  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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  Algo mais...

  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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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  2

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  Meus animais / animais de estimação

  

  Ocea / Osha Australian Kelpie (1 ano)

  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 anos)

  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 anos)

  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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