Views From The Back Yard
So, you guys have seen the house, now, what’s up on the 13-14 acres of land??? It’s hilly and grassy, but fortunately bad fencing allowed a neighbouring farm’s stray sheep to graze our paddocks!! The north fence is lined with Pine forest and the East (back) side has a larger part of forest on our property, complete with a mountain stream – obviously more prominent during rainy times. Spiders and moths are plentiful, the sheep count to 8 or 9, never sure where they all roam most of the times. Possums are a pest, apparently, but I’ve never seen any around. The bird song during daytime is amazing, and in stark contrast is the absolute silence at night. The absence of night insects like crickets is a strange thing to get used to. African nights are in no ways quiet. This silence is almost deafening, yet it has a serene beauty to it. Yeah yeah, you guessed right, WE LOVE IT HERE!!!!!
Without further a due, allow me to intorduce the strays... One little bugger was having himself a nice little snooze in the lazy afternoon sun, but woke up when I moved past to the other side (See next photo) This is the paddock right behind the house.
.. And this be the little one I woke from a deep sheep nap. He looked so mif at the time, not impressed at all!!! (To the back you can see the southern neighbour's house, down the hill and through a ditch)
Not so far away the rolling green hills give way to the serene inners of the pine forest with a stream running down to the neighbour's fence.
I just turned around and took this one uphill, where the stream comes from, it's exact origin still a mystery. Not sure how the other neighbour would feel if I just go fence hopping and prance around his back yard. They're so far away I haven't even seen them to this day!!!
It's quite a steep climb up the hills in the forst.
This is the view of our house from up top just out of the forest with the ocean line visible to the west.
I had a companion on this afternoon who demanded we stop and rest. He wanted to "take in the view", but I knew the steep climb was just too much!! :-)
On the front corner of the property where west and north fences meet. This is the view of Kapiti island.
And another one of those.
So for those of you geekish enough to know what Google Earth is, and you have this burning desire to get bthe bird's eye view of just where we abide, you can navigate to:
Lat: 41° 0'33.82"S
and
Long: 174°56'6.20"E
Hmmm., for the rest of you, get on the plane and come visit us!!!! You won't regret it!!!!
So, you guys have seen the house, now, what’s up on the 13-14 acres of land??? It’s hilly and grassy, but fortunately bad fencing allowed a neighbouring farm’s stray sheep to graze our paddocks!! The north fence is lined with Pine forest and the East (back) side has a larger part of forest on our property, complete with a mountain stream – obviously more prominent during rainy times. Spiders and moths are plentiful, the sheep count to 8 or 9, never sure where they all roam most of the times. Possums are a pest, apparently, but I’ve never seen any around. The bird song during daytime is amazing, and in stark contrast is the absolute silence at night. The absence of night insects like crickets is a strange thing to get used to. African nights are in no ways quiet. This silence is almost deafening, yet it has a serene beauty to it. Yeah yeah, you guessed right, WE LOVE IT HERE!!!!!
Without further a due, allow me to intorduce the strays... One little bugger was having himself a nice little snooze in the lazy afternoon sun, but woke up when I moved past to the other side (See next photo) This is the paddock right behind the house.
.. And this be the little one I woke from a deep sheep nap. He looked so mif at the time, not impressed at all!!! (To the back you can see the southern neighbour's house, down the hill and through a ditch)
Not so far away the rolling green hills give way to the serene inners of the pine forest with a stream running down to the neighbour's fence.
I just turned around and took this one uphill, where the stream comes from, it's exact origin still a mystery. Not sure how the other neighbour would feel if I just go fence hopping and prance around his back yard. They're so far away I haven't even seen them to this day!!!
It's quite a steep climb up the hills in the forst.
This is the view of our house from up top just out of the forest with the ocean line visible to the west.
I had a companion on this afternoon who demanded we stop and rest. He wanted to "take in the view", but I knew the steep climb was just too much!! :-)
On the front corner of the property where west and north fences meet. This is the view of Kapiti island.
And another one of those. 
So for those of you geekish enough to know what Google Earth is, and you have this burning desire to get bthe bird's eye view of just where we abide, you can navigate to:Lat: 41° 0'33.82"S
and
Long: 174°56'6.20"E
Hmmm., for the rest of you, get on the plane and come visit us!!!! You won't regret it!!!!
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