New Zealand Trip: 2004 World Congress
The pre Congress bus tour: Here we are all gathered by our faithful bus. Peter Cameron put this 7 day tour together and also led it. Plus he invented the combination rest room/ice cream stop that was very popular! Alan Cherrie was not only our bus driver but put together a wonderful cd of our tour.
pictured below: We visit Peter's coloured flock at his home in Masterton
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We spent the night in Masterton. Four of us stayed with this lovely couple who are members of the Friendship Force
Alan drives onto the ferry for our 3 hour trip from Wellington to the South Island
below: We visit the Hall's property, home of the Hallblacks. Here i saw my favorite colored fleece of the trip, a multicolored Merino ewe
below: the last day of the tour was spent at the famous Canturbury Show in Christchurch
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These Corriedales were shown in full fleece, sheared, shown sheared, then their fleeces were judged. The fleeces are in the boxes above the pens.
The CH Corriedale ram
below:The sheep who won Best of Show Fleece for the fine fleeced breeds. A 2 year old triplet Corriedale ram bred by Coldstream Stud (Joe Studholme)
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These Corriedales were shown in full fleece, sheared, shown sheared, then their fleeces were judged. The fleeces are in the boxes above the pens.
Above: Decorations at the Congress headquarters the Chateau on the Park
Below: Roger Lundie bred his lambs late so that they would be small enough to put on the table together to show the different color patterns.
below: The last day of the Congress we visit a farm which runs deer, sheep and cattle
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Roland Sumner's light badgerface sheep. We had a delicious potluck at his place and then were home hosted.