Backpacking Cougar

Life on the Estanscia known as my piece of paradise is amping up as the days are getting slightly longer and spring is getting closer. This time last year I was living on 600sqm of manicured lawn in a two-bedroom bungalow in town with a reasonable level of sanity. Apart from an unruly Cairn Terrier, life was pretty sweet but I still had that mad hankering to get back to the country. Late October 2019, I took possession of a 6-acre block south of Ashburton where every day as

Every now and then you meet a young person in life and in your travels who you warm to immediately. You know instantly they are old souls beyond their tender years and they bring to life the saying that education is not always academic and that knowledge is power. Meeting Johanna was like that for me. From the very first time she spoke to me at the Estanscia, I had this real desire to find out what made her tick. She was riding as tail end Charlie on one of the horse treks w