Wellington and Sheep Farm

Hi All,

Today we are in Wellington, the capital of NZ.  We started the morning with a walking tour of the city.  We rode a cable car up to a point high above the city.

The views of the city were amazing.

We then walked down to the city center.  Along the way we passed through this beautiful rose garden.

We passed through a city cemetery.  Included in the head stones was this one of a New Zealand Moari native.

And this from a man, his wife, and his son, a WW1 veteran.

After our walk down the hill, we arrived in the city center.  Wellington is beautiful, this is one of the city streets.

So that was our morning.  In the afternoon the real fun started, we went to a sheep farm.  We drove about an hour from where the ship was docked.  We traveled along the seaside until we reached a very narrow road that climbed way above the beach.  We were amazed that our large bus could even go up this road, wouldn’t want to try it in our motorhome!  At the top we reached the sheep farm.  This is the farmer’s house with sheep in his front yard, only a few of his over 3000.

This is the view from the farmer’s front porch, WOW!

Next the farmer demonstrated how his sheep dogs worked.  One dog is trained to drive the sheep away and barks a lot.  The other dog brings the sheep back and doesn’t make a sound.  It was fascinating watching the dogs work.

We saw lots of sheep.

These sheep are raised for meat and will be coming soon to a Costco or Sam’s near you.  After leaving the sheep farm we drove along the shoreline back to our ship.  Our ship is in the middle of this picture.

We passed this light house along the way.

Shortly before reaching the port, we passed by the Wellington railroad station, another example of how beautiful this city is.

So this was our day in Wellington.  We continue to be amazed at the beauty of New Zealand.  Tomorrow we will be in Christchurch and have a city tour planned.  Our tour is called Christchurch After The Quake and is the story of how the city is recovering from the devastating  2011 earthquake.  Bye for now.

Jer and Helen