We arrived back from our Doubtful Sound journey to quite possibly the NICEST farmstead we could have imagined. Try to picture an interior designer/farmer who added a 2 bedroom chalet onto her garage, decorated it beautifully, and provided fresh baked bread and brownies and cookies (daily). Not to mention a fully stocked fridge and farm animals that we got to play with.
We got a tour of the farm and even got to bottle feed some baby sheep. There were Alpaca’s, sheep, goats, baby chicks and deer…it was really incredible:
Leo’s take: One of the farm animals that I thought was crazy was the alpaca because what it did, he/she went on the ground and rolled around and then came up and jumped like 3 ft in the air. At first I was scared because once we brought the food into their field they all come running at us to get the food. I hid behind my dad and every time an animal came up to me I would just throw up my hands and say – I don’t have anything!!
Then we somehow co-erced the kids to do another hike…a part of the famous Kepler Track (we went from Rainbow to Reach to Maturau Hut). Guess how long we walked….14KM!!!! Yup..our kids actually, without complaining on a 14K hike through the woods and it took us just over 3 hours.
The Kepler track itself is a 60KM circular hike in this region with various huts along the way. Tramping is a thing here (Tramping = long hikes with rudimentary huts along the way where you can bunk out with strangers in the woods). Again, another experience I would have thought not possible with kids (particularly my kids who often complain if we ask to go on a walk around the city but they were troopers). Traveling seems to bring out the best in them.
A great day. Tomorrow we are off to Queenstown for 4 nights!
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