Avenues Whangarei

We will be away for about 6 to 8 weeks from around the end of August 2025 to mid October 2025. Dates to be confirmed. There might be the possibility that the trip could be cut short but advanced notice would be given. Non-smokers only.

Our home is a 1920's bungalow in central Whangarei, with off street parking on the driveway, walking distance from the city centre, parks, library, the Quarry arts centre, town basin, Hundertwasser art centre, cafe's restaurants, cinema, a short drive to supermarkets and the hospital (each about a 5 min drive) and a 30 to 40 min drive from many beautiful beaches and walking tracks.

We have 4 chooks that are free range in our back garden (Olive, Florence, Gracie & Freckles) and one very lovely and affectionate old female cat (Bonnie), she loves humans and loves sitting on your lap, but she doesn't do well with other animals. Bonnie and the chooks are fed twice a day, morning and evening.

We have lots of fruit trees and two veggie patches in the back garden, but we have pea straw covering the veggie patches so there is no weeding required. We also have boarder gardens around the house and down the driveway, but they will all be weeded and maintained before we leave. You would be welcome to potter in the garden if any weeds come up but that would not be expected. A family member comes and mows the lawns once a fortnight.

We have alot of birdlife in the front and back gardens as we throw wild bird seed onto the lawns and can get between 20 & 40 sparrows feeding as well as collard (Barbary) and spotted doves, wax eyes, mynahs, Piwakawaka (fantails), blackbirds, starlings, thrush and Tui. We often sit on the front porch (which is a lovely sun trap) and watch the birds. The collard doves are very tame and will land on your lap or shoulder and eat out of your hand. We sometimes hear Ruru (morepork) at night.

It's a little oasis in the centre of Whangarei..