Tag: Otago

“Domesticated”: unwild animals (#6 in series: good grazing + natural splendour)

Published September 1, 2026 by Pelidoug

“Domesticated”: unwild animals (#6 in series: good grazing + natural splendour)

I took this post’s photo on a 2019 New Zealand autumn afternoon, whilst overlooking Otago’s Lake Hawea.

You may find it hard to imagine a more “idyllic” location for sheep, grazing.

New Zealand’s sheep numbers peaked in 1982; at 70 million, they outnumbered their human compatriots by a ratio of rather more than 20 to 1!

Questions:

What is NZ’s current ratio of sheep to humans?

Has NZ retained its “traditional” status as the world’s most “sheepish” nation?

Grand sands: (#21 in series: Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand)

Published January 5, 2025 by Pelidoug

Grand sands: (#21 in series: Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand)

Wet sand is often attractive in its own right.

Arguably, however, its greatest “talent” is its ability to enhance the beauty of whatever objects happen to be present within, atop, or above it…be they clouds, islands, shells, seaweed, crustaceans, birds, pebbles…or – in this instance – some wonderfully weird boulders on the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island.

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