It's pretty neat to say I did a cattle drive in New Zealand. Today we took the first herd (the heifers) home from the run-off block. We had a modern day cattle drive for more than 10 miles that we walk the cows down the road. In New Zealand all the roads have fences lining the sides and all the driveways have gates so you can shut them up when moving livestock. We moved 200 cows across the busiest road on the entire South Island, Highway 1.
I felt like a cowboy, only I rode my Yamaha dirt bike instead of a horse. It took about four hours to walk the herd home so it was slow going, which gave me time to look around at the scenery. Over the last four days we have gotten a lot of rain which means that the mountains got dumped on with snow. It was clear today so it was really nice to be able to enjoy the beauty of the mountains with all the fresh snow glistening in the sunshine.
We have three more herds to bring home over the next month so maybe I can get Brittany to take some pictures of one of our cattle drives. They really are something to see. Just a day in the life of a modern day cowboy.
I felt like a cowboy, only I rode my Yamaha dirt bike instead of a horse. It took about four hours to walk the herd home so it was slow going, which gave me time to look around at the scenery. Over the last four days we have gotten a lot of rain which means that the mountains got dumped on with snow. It was clear today so it was really nice to be able to enjoy the beauty of the mountains with all the fresh snow glistening in the sunshine.
We have three more herds to bring home over the next month so maybe I can get Brittany to take some pictures of one of our cattle drives. They really are something to see. Just a day in the life of a modern day cowboy.
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