Archive for October, 2008
First newborn lambs for 2008 season
JULY 8 2008 – NEWBORN LAMBS
The first lambs for 2008 have been born on the Coast to Coast Tour’s Auckland farm. …No orphans yet, (but keep a watch for our updates)
….these mothers are very proud!
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Baby lambs are storm casualties
JULY 26 – Tropical cyclone hits New Zealand.
Cyclones from the Pacific are generally rare at this time of the year, but this one, moving down onto Auckland at late morning, certainly packed a punch! We had several power interruptions, and then we finally lost the power by lunchtime (it stayed off until 2145). Luckily we [...]
First orphan lamb
July 19 2008 – FIRST ORPHAN LAMB
Our first orphan lamb was found tonight, (in the Pine tree paddock). It is a little girl, and we have named her Penelope.
As her mother was nowhere to be found, we have brought her home to bottle feed. We would prefer not to have to do this…”their own mothers [...]
TAMARILLO CHUTNEY recipe
TAMARILLO CHUTNEY
The TAMARILLO is native to many South American countries. It grows fairly abundantly in New Zealand, however, it is frost tender, so not very suited to areas where frosts are. On our farm we have several tamarillo trees growing because we LOVE them made into chutney!
Here’s an old family recipe which I will [...]
Tornado tree, Coast to Coast Tours.
SEPTEMBER 24th 2008 – …and it HAD to go!
Our “Tornado tree” had become a concern. Every time the wind blew strongly, more branches would come down on our farm, and our woolshed -so we finally had to have it cut down. What a mission, because it was so tall, (with one of the 3 main [...]
TORNADO hits our farm!
APRIL 15 2008 – TORNADO hits our New Zealand SHEEP FARM
(…an unusual occurrence, so this was quite interesting for us!!)
As it was raining (and we couldn’t do any work outside on the farm), we went out on business. We went over to Silverdale (on the East coast of Auckland). When we left (about 1245), there [...]
New Zealand Tourism information
New Zealand Tourism Information
We recommend these FREE publications to use while you are in New Zealand;
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Auckland A-Z magazine
website to the ‘Auckland A-Z’ magazine.
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Auckland, New Zealand and world-wide travel sites
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