Isolation, but no hardship



Robyn’s gaze sweeps across the mountain pastures. 

She enjoys the natural beauty of their alpine home.
Her professional eye calculates the health of the ewes and their new lambs; always alert for changes that may require her assistance.


Robyn runs the sheep station and Angus Stud with her husband Johnny.





Her feminine creativity runs to garden art.

Two miniature Trafalgar Lions stare out from the platform of the relocated cottage, they have a long wait for a train. 

The cottage was originally a New Zealand Railway House, but has now retired to the silence and splendid isolation of the hill country farm.



Isolation, but no hardship; the cottage has electricity and a “Fatso” cast iron log burner to keep it warm.
Robyn has softened the otherwise spartan feel of the cottage with freshly decorated walls, original paintings and old fashioned rose-print fabrics.
Farm fresh eggs complete the welcome in the kitchen.

 The winding road to the cottage is sound with only one dry creek bed that fords easily. The road climbs sheep covered ridges and decends into green gullies.


The farm has been in the family for 109 years. Johnny’s father founded their Angus breeding line in the 1930s.
They now have a Stud of Australasian renown.
250 cows that winter on the hills, without reqiring supplementary feed.
60 bulls per year meet the stringent criteria of the stud principal and are sold in the annual bull sale on the property in June.

Around the homestead in spring, new calves frolick in the lush green pastures.




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