This is the i-centre (information) .....
Say no more....I'll stick to reading the book!! It does bring good business to the town, I'm not knocking it!
As it was 5pm, we headed for a coffee shop....and there are may everywhere!
This was The Redoubt.. good coffee and plenty of history on the walls, sporting and otherwise.
Excuse the glare, that is the best I could manage... but it is fascinating...
Bill Riddell was the last of the East Coast drovers, c. 1966.
As far as I could make out the writing at the bottom it says " Bill brought the stock from Opotiki to Ohinewai, 600 mostly 18 month old Herefords and Polls. Bill started droving in 1936.....sending forward....each unit took 3 months"
Talking to the artist, Judith M Dixon, who lives next door in Te Aroha, she said that this is correct.
Luckily were were in the car, not on the bikes as it suddenly bucketed down with rain- almost as if you were standing under a tap!
Then home across the Waikato again. I'm learning the road signs.....1845.3 on the road sign at one end means that it is 18.45 k long, with 3 turn-offs....and some of those straight bits can be 10 k long!!
From a distance I saw the falls at Wairere....impressive even from 10 k away!
That will be another day's trip.
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Droving strikes me as a very isolated way to make a living.
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