Sunrise from the front yard of our VRBO. Today will be exciting; Scotty is picking us up this morning to take us to his family’s Sheep farm! His dad, mom, Scotty and his brother run it. This is a 6th generation farm!This is the VRBO that Jan found for us. It’s a beautiful house right on the water and was very comfortable!This is the farm. i don’t remember the actual size of it, but it’s huge!That’s Scotty, Jan, Lane and Joni in the picture. He told us this was the spot on the farm where he got married.A group photoTwo of the three working dogs they use. These boys do the field herding together. They do not bark, they just follow their orders and do their job This is their third dog. Her job is to get the sheep into the chute to go to shearing. She does bark since the sheep are already corralled. We have a couple of videos but unfortunately, I couldn’t get them to upload properly. If you want to see them work, just Google sheep herding dogs. It’s very fun and fascinating to watch!When they’re off duty they are very affectionate. She loved belly rubs!Rounding up a stray sheep.More belly rubs, please!The boys have them corralled, now her turn to get them in th chute.In line to be sheared.Look at those eyelashes! The Kardashians would be jealous!The boys job is done, ready for a ride.Scotty’s mom is the shearer along with the hired hands. Here she’s explaining the process.Some of the shearing tools.The shearing tool.A bundle of wool with the awards it has won. They produce Merino wool exclusively and have earned many awards!Many top garment producers around the world use their wool.Here she’s showing us the fine threads they get from this wool.Back outside, this is their family greenhouse.A scarecrow of sorts!They also have a few pet sheep. We think they aged out of being useful for wool, so now they live their retired life with treats and pets!Grapevines over their back patio.We had a lovely Crumpets and tea that Scotty’s mom prepared. She shared that her sons are encouraging them to retire and travel, but she isn’t interested in doing that because this is her office! Why leave it to travel!We’re back in the van to go to lunch.More sheep on our way. Interesting fact: sheep outnumber people in New Zealand 5 to 1! AND they’re delicious (the sheep not the people!)Scotty took us to this winery where we had great wine and absolutely the best lamb shanks we’ve ever eaten. Sorry, no pictures, I was busy eating!
That’s the end of our adventures in the Christchurch area.
We've been full time RVers since 2015 and have been fortunate enough to have seen all 50 states (we flew to Hawaii and alaska) and stayed in each at least one week! It's been an awesome adventure but we've decided to park our fifth wheel in Yuma Arizona, mostly because its warm year round!
By staying put in one place we can now do other travel both in the USA and abroad.
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