Thread: Off for a ride...

Originally Posted by Scribe

No we used to tie them behind the Landcruiser and run them out to the hunting area but the long rope was to tether them out on the tussock so while we were flycamping they could get a bit of a feed.

That clearing where you have your horses must of had some dwelling on, or near it, looking at the shelter belt of pines.

Goes to show how times have changed...nowadays we use a short rope to lead the horse and a long one to tether, that way we make the horse carry the extra rope instead of it dropping in loops around our feet.

The clearing is actually an old pa site about a third of the way to the top...what you see as a shelter belt is the first row of trees of a forest over a very steep slope...soon they will all be gone.

This is the photo of up top...horizon (Mayor Island) is on an angle due to curvature of the earth or me holding camera on angle