wed with a very encouraging tour of a couple of wonderful properties in the hills above.My favouate view from in the front yard of one--->
As usual, we had a few tense moments - this time with some livestock... imagine if you will, innocently 'trespassing' on someone's land and deciding to take the road less travelled to their back pasture... all is going well until you find that the road ends and is too narrow to turn around and too steep to back up on... a gate to the pasture is the only thing that will save you from dying there (of embarassment or otherwise)....for all you citified folks, who may not be aware of this phenom
enon: cows get excited when they see you coming to open the gate and come in the dozens to be let out... so your instinct kicks in and before you know it, you turn into a 'cowpoke' of sorts, unfortunately, you are one who can't remember how to discourage cows and end up making a ridiculous noise to keep them at bay (thank goodness my parents didn't see this - they would have been ashamed). thankfully, the adventure didn't end in tears... we were able to skeedaddle (cowpoke jargon) up the hill and back onto the open road with nary an escaped bovine. hope that gate got closed tight...Later on, we happened upon Pilbrow Hill, just south of Whangarai and on a clear day the view wo
uld be really spectacular - today was a bit hazy but still the views were pretty incredible. Nice place to stop and have Devonshire tea - delish!. Took a few more roads less travelled and came across a really creative modification to an old tree stump... One nice acreage deep in a valley which was somewhat reminicent of 'The Ranch' in Fish Creek. Not a lot going on in these parts, a lot of big farms and that seems to be it.We tried to post more blog stuff today, but the silly internet booth was some kind of Linux so, so much for USB drivers! We found out today that our little Mouse passed her drivers exam. Yeah, mouse! good going!
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