Hamilton photos

Here are the promised photos from our Hamilton trip. They were taken on a sunny winter morning, after the fog had lifted. The sun was low in the sky and it was chilly! The first is the road outside my sister's house - another Long Pathway - we walked up to the top and back, gazing at paddocks full of cows (second picture).





And this is the view from my sis's kitchen window. The pond at the bottom of the picture belongs to them, and is full of pukeko and ducks. In the mornings it is quiet, the cool stillness punctuated by the occasional hoarse croaking squawk from the pond. One neighbour keeps alpaca, another has highland cattle, all hair and horns. I love it down there - I always return home feeling renewed and refreshed.