• Yay. Our building company uses a service called BuilderTrend. They started sharing photos of our new build with us. šŸ”

    Three photos of earthworks on a new property.

    All the empty land behind and beside our new place will eventually have houses on it, but until then we get a bit of a view.

  • Before they can start building our new house they have to add some height to the building platform. šŸ”

    Heavy machinery adds and works soil to raise the building platform.
  • Big day today. In theory they've started breaking ground at our new Ruakākā property. Meanwhile we just signed all the million forms to engage an estate agent to sell our Waikawa Beach place.

    • Nope, not a meth lab.
    • Nope, no one died here.
    • Nope, no hazardous waste stored here.
  • Might not look like much, but that Portaloo near the white sign marks the corner of our new property at Ruakākā, and indicates that work is about to start on our new house. šŸ‘Æā€ā™€ļø

  • We don't yet have a start date for the house build at Ruakākā, but we expect to move perhaps mid-2025.

    Now that 2024 has come to a close we're turning our thoughts to selling up here at Waikawa Beach. And so we're beginning the process of cleaning up and clearing out.

    A little bit every day …

  • Well, at long last it's official — all signed up for a land and house package at Ruakākā on the east coast, a 20 minute drive south of Whangārei.

    Map shows Ruakākā south of Whangārei.

    We expect to be living there by this time in 2025. šŸ”