Mature couple living the dream
About
Keith and I have been living abroad and returned to NZ to retire. That was 3 years ago, and we are still working and travelling as much as we can.
We are well travelled and are hooked on cruising. LONG cruises…..our next is the end of May to end of august 2025. When we get back from that cruise its back to work until May 2026 when we want to commit to travelling NZ.
We have house sat in Australia & NZ and loved meeting new people, their fur babies and properties of all shapes and sizes, in different parts of the country. The opportunity took us to all corners of Australia. One memorable stay was on a sheep station in NSW. We were to stay 1 month and 4 months later moved on, amazing experience. We managed a caravan park in Victoria, so very familiar with groundwork, swimming pool maintenance and customer service. Northland stay last year was 3mths on a lifestyle block with 6 Charolais cattle and maintaining the immaculate grounds
What we are looking for is to be in a 30km radius of Whangarei, from August 29/2025 until May 2026, totally negotiable on the end date
Rural is our best-case scenario, but open to what your requirements are.
- Pair
- Age Group: 67 plus
- Manager
Information
Preferred Locations
Experience/Willing to care for/Duration/Additional Information
- Birds
- Cats
- Dogs
- Experience with Domestic Animals
- Experience with Farm Animals
- Farms animals/Livestock
- Long Term House Sits (1 month +)
- Poultry
- References available
Availability
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1 Review
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Shelly and Keith did a 26 day house/pet sit for us looking after our elderly cat who needed medication daily, 5 chickens and blue tongue skink. They kept in contact regularly. Sent us photos of our pets. We arrived home to a beautiful clean house and lovely note with some homemade baking.
Maungatapere, Northland | 12th March 2026 - 6th April 2026