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Dinner with family and cousins from USA
Club Med for Cows!
Koropuku Falls - a hidden dream! |
FAMILY and FARM
- The Garden House now has a heat pump to add to
woodburner, gas and other electric heaters. Don't be cold!
- We have enjoyed an overnight visit from a US
family - three Swanson brothers and Nancy, wife of
Don. Nancy is my cousin's husband's sister! All our
offspring came to meet them which made for a fun
Saturday night as the storm raged outside.
- The cows are all settled for winter with about
ten silage pits open. They are amazingly content
given the wild weather. Long may that continue..
(the contentment, not the weather..)
- delighted to have a knock on the door yesterday
from a young traveller from Fortrose in Scotland,
with two friends -- what a great chat we had -- she
plans to become a Kiwi -- much as she loves
Scotland, New Zealand is even better!
LOCAL and DISTRICT
- We have lately discovered a waterfall new to us locals
would you believe? It's called Koropuku Falls and is on the
left of the main road through Catlins, 7.5Km from the
turnoff from the Tokanui-Waikawa Road. A red-painted rock,
on the right of the road, helped us to find it. It is a
lovely track with some boulder-scrambling near the fall...
could be slippery in the wet. Take care.
- The seas this weekend have been bigger than Colin has
seen in his lifetime. The Tokanui river has been inundated
with sand so water is flowing everywhere.
- So many farms have changed hands.... we need to
have a get-together to meet everyone. Fortrose had
its District Dinner last Friday and maybe the Otara
one is coming up shortly.
My personal pages
The Garden House as on Baches and Holiday Homes website
www.seafarmer.blogspot.com all my chatter
http://seafarmer.wordpress.com doggerel
great Catlins photos found on flickr
http://mackayporterpics.blogspot.com/ 1930s etc family
photos
http://fortrose.blogspot.com/ Fortrose Academy reunion 2004.
(Class of 1959-64)
http://fortrosenz.blogspot.com/ travel blog 2004: Mexico
Switzerland and UK
Fortrose NZ news
Fortrose - the original one in Ross-shire, Scotland! |
We
will put up some photos here too.
