lamb rescue squad

Tuesday we did a lot of walking. Beach walking. Mountain walking. Pasture walking. The highlight of our walking was in Tawharanui Regional Park (pronounced ta-fra-new-ee). We really had no plan nor knew where we were going when we set out for Tawharanui – but we ended up doing the ecology trail which lead us around the beach through tidepools, up the hillside, and then through grazing sheep and cows… yep… right through their eating/stomping grounds. It was nuts! See below…

When we went through the sheep part – of course I LOVED the lambs. But there was one lamb that had gotten himself into a little pickle. Somehow he got into a fenced off little area… he had no idea of his dilemma because he was chomping away at untouched grass. When we came up to the little fenced in area, he started crying for his mama and soon realized that he was trapped. So we became the rescue squad. Josh went in to catch the lamb so we could pass him over the fence and set him free… I was making sure no angry mama was going to come and ram into us… Josh got the little guy out, passed him over the fence to me, I took a moment to cuddle the little guy before putting him down... then he ran away. The nerve! We didn’t even get a thank you… ungrateful lamb… I’ll see you for dinner! Just kidding!

We then had to cross back through the cows to get home… they are big but we found out they’re more scared of us than we were of them… silly cows.