New Zealand

I managed to arrive in NZ just in time for Christmas to spend Christmas day with some fellow Welsh people in TeKuiti. However it didn't feel much like Christmas.

NZ is very different to Australia in terms of landscape and farming methods. The fields are very heavily stocked and dairy cattle are everywhere.

I then moved down to Taumaruniu and arranged to go out with a shearing gang the next day. This meant getting up at 4.30 as they leave soon after 5. I learnt a lot about the way wool is treated and sorted this day at this Romney stud farm. The Romney ewes were very big and stubborn and the presser had a difficult job filling the pens with his dog and pressing the wool.