Map of New Zealand

Map of New Zealand

Map of the Wairarapa, New Zealand

Map of The Wairarapa,

New Zealand

Extending eastward from the Tararua Range to the Pacific Ocean and northward from Pallister Bay to a line extending from the Manawatu Gorge, the Wairarapa region was the first in the country in which sheep farming was undertaken on any great scale.

 

Merino Rams

New Zealand

The Merino was the first sheep in New Zealand.  They are fine boned, active sheep with white faces and legs, all rams and some ewes are horned.  Merino sheep are found in the mountainous high country of the South Island of New Zealand.

If there was only one wool left in the world, this is the one I would want it to be!

Autumn in Arrowtown

Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand

Rotorua Buildings ~ New Zealand