Lake Tekapo and Farm Life

Today we returned to Lake Tekapo on a much better day.  The clouds lifted at least half way up the  mountains. Of course, the lupine were everywhere, and walking through them was a fragrant delight. We started at the Mount John Observatory and then found a nice walk across the headlands of the lake that were the domain of singing sheep. 

Then we returned to the farm to take a farm tour and see the wallabies, and fallow deer. The deer are raise for venison but a few were playful pests. One tried to bite my camera. Bad deer! The first photo you see in the upper left is out the car window with the  mountains in the distance, lupines along the road, and the lake.

After the farm tour we had a magnificent meal with dozens of different types of foods including venison, 4 types of dessert, and fresh baked gluten free bread. All the veggies came for the garden into the pot. Good conversation, good food, what could be better.

My favorite photo of Gayle walking through the lupine forest.

These are merino wool sheep. It is a breed of sheep with very fine wool. Their wool is 50% thinner thn other sheeps which is great for consumers but their wool isn't very thick so there is less volumne per sheep. They also have more herd instinct and tend to stay closer together then the other sheep in this farm.

We saw a moving sale on our drive to the Lake. Could have picked this house for a song.