We have gone and bought 10 acres of bare land, well not quite bare, it has a gravel track on it which leads to the future building site at the back of the property, it also has a trough, which is not hooked up, because when they built the track they cut the water pipe.
How much is 10 acres? just over 4 hectares or about the size of 5 rugby fields if you can’t picture it.
This is an image of the land, the entrance is on the left hand side, it slopes down quickly to the creek bed and then goes up again and is flat by the time it gets to the trough, this flat area is about where the house and shed will go.
Why do we want it? it’s not hard to explain really, the chance to live in the peace and quiet of the country with pigs, chickens, horses, perhaps a donkey dotting the landscape. We already have two horses and have always had them on grazing, but a couple of years ago we visited friends on a farm in the Naki and took one of our horses, getting up in the morning and seeing her over the fence was something special. So we have been keeping our eyes open for some land and now we have it, no doubt we will make some silly mistakes and spend money and time on things we don’t need to, but we are going to enjoy ourselves.