A day in the life of a dairy farmer ...

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Early morning - Fixing a fence to stop the sheep getting through - yes, it's a dairy farm, but the naughty sheep being grazed next door kept sneaking through the fence and eating our cow's grass! I can now add a knowledge of different fence types to my repertoire, currently, sheep-proof fences are my least favourite!!!

Early afternoon - Back at the cow shed to treat one of the cow's with a sore foot - it's like a large scale pedicure, but without toilet manners....

Early evening - Arrive at the Unwin hut near Mount Cook to stay the night ready for a couple of days trekking over the weekend.

The tramp was fantastic, we were so lucky with the weather, we had clear blue skies all weekend. We walked up to Muller Hut, which was about 2.5 hours uphill, climbing around 1,000m. We got there for lunch and then explored around the hut in the afternoon - bagged another peak (Mt Ollivier). When we got up in the morning at 8am, the hut was pretty much deserted, everyone had headed back down already. We took our time and took in the view for a while and then headed down - 1,000m straight downhill is painfull on the legs! We hung around at the Mount Cook visitor center for quite a while, then as we started driving back, we ended up pulling off the road for a while as we couldn't bare to leave the wonderful view of Mount Cook. It was a fantastic weekend; mountains, lakes, tramping, what more could you ask for?!

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Photos

Early morning
Fixing fences

Early afternoon
Fixing sore feet

Early evening
Fixing the soul!

Comments

[Pat Galea]

Don't fence me in!
You are becoming such a fence geek. :-)