Trelinnoe Park

On Friday Ken and Janet took us to see Trelinnoe Park. It is about 30ks along the Napier Taupo Highway and another five ks on a dirt road in the sticks,or so I thought. I got this from the web "In 1956 brothers Brian and John Wills took up residence on the 2800 acres (1134 ha¹s) of waste scrub land that had not been successfully farmed. Their ambition was to create a profitable and pleasing farming enterprise. The result is Trelinnoe Park.

The park’s 30 acres has an exceptionally wide and varied collection of trees, shrubs, perennials and natives. Landscaped woodland paths, wide sweeps of lawns, clipped hedges, hillsides of flowering trees and spectacular vistas."
This is just one picture I took. Its just a taste. Just Click the picture.I stitched three together


Here are some more.

Just Click this View

In 1997 we sold our old retirement farm Nessie in the Tsitsikama, Eastern Cape, to Rob and Erica from the Netherlands. They had previously bought the big dairy farm next door to us and wanted Nessie as a home for themselves. We recently looked them up on the Internet and wrote to them.

Erica sent me photos showing how they had beautifully renovated our old Cape Dutch house, and replaced the iron roof with thatch as it was once..

She also told us that they had changed the name of the farm to McKenzie Farm. How cool is that?!!

We have been invited to come anytime to stay in their guest cottage and visit the farm again