We left after a full day of work on Wednesday, and spent the night on the shores of lake Wanaka. If anyone ever heads down to New Zealand, the recommendation is to avoid Queenstown, and stay here instead. There's a great organic cafe/store (SoulFood), am amazing views of snow capped peaks, and a great friendly vibe.
The next day we drove through Mt Aspiring National Park. It was too misty to see the high peaks, but large hills, punctuated by thundering waterfalls and covered in coastal rain forest zoomed out of the mist as we followed ? Pass along the Haast river to the Tasman Sea. The copious rain has washed glacier sediment into a broad, marshy plain along the sea, and this area raises quality beef cattle.
The dress was blue jeans and gumboots, the food was fried whitebait patties (a New Zealand specialty), and the cattle were a nice mix of Herefords, Simmental, Angus, and various crosses. We walked around the narrow board walkways on top of the pens for thirty minutes, checking out the wares, and then PGG Wrightson started the auction of the thirty odd pens at around 12:30. An hour or so later, it was all over, and Graham had brought sixty heifers from various lots.
Then a five hour drive back to Marama farm, after arranging for a truck for the cattle the next day.
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