sheep – Alive and Trekking

Quintessential New Zealand

With the Daily Post’s weekly photo challenges gone (ugh, I miss them!), I’m glad there are bloggers running photo challenges instead! Like Nancy Merrill Photography, where this week’s theme is ‘quintessential‘. To me, this photo shows the quintessential New Zealand: heaps of lush green, rivers and sheep! This is the Clutha River, which we passedContinue reading “Quintessential New Zealand”

There are 60 million sheep in New Zealand

And here are a few of those 60 million! I spent some time at Onuku Farm Hostel, on the beautiful Banks Peninsula. The hostel is on a working farm, so when you’re exploring the area or enjoy a game of volleyball, you’re sharing with some very fluffy neighbours! 🙂

Sheep jam!

Only in New Zealand, right? I mean, in a country with around 60 million sheep, this just had to happen sometime! 🙂 I’d gotten a lift from fellow backpackers and somewhere along the way (I believe it was the Lindiss Pass, but I’m not sure) we got into this huge sheep jam. We had toContinue reading “Sheep jam!”