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Laurie Pentland and her host Alistair Linn somewhere near the
top of Mount Egmont. The wind was extremely strong. Laurie
even utilized an ice axe (to her right).
Beautiful country, friendly people
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monetary value on the experience,"
she says.
She describes the country as
"beautiful" and the people as
"genuine, friendly and out -going.
They want to meet you and find
about your country. They're very
warm and fun to be around."
At the end of her New Zealand
stint, Laurie took a two-week bus
tour, geared to young people,
around the perimeter of the North
Island. "In one place there were 23
pubs within a mile," she says. She
went Glacier walking, white and
black water raftinkl, abseiling and
tried bungie jumping - once was
enough.
"Mere words cannot described
Milford Sound, which is an inter-
nationally known out -doors spot,"
says Laurie. "The Antarctic
Museum, located at Christchurch,
was fascinating."
Off to Australia
On April 4, 1994, Laurie flew
from Auckland to Brisbin to Rock-
hampton, in Australia.
Her second host family was Nick
and Rhonda Dudarko and their two
children, who lived about two hours
away from Rockhampton.
Nick runs a beef farm with 6,000
head which includes Brahman stud
cattle and Braford commercial
(meat) cattle. A Braford is a Brah-
man and Hereford cross. In addition
to the cattle, Nick has 30,000 acres
of land for tree cutting, and is also
a bulldozer contractor.
On this farm, Laurie's main duty
was hammer milling for the stud
bulls. She'd average anywhere from
10 to 20 loads per week to feed
between 50 and 100 studs. Feed
ingredients included a mix of sor-
ghum, lime, bentonite, mung beans,
lucerne (alfalfa), forage, peanut hay
and other additives. The peanut hay,
which is high in protein, results in
shiner coats on the studs, Laurie
says.
Eradication of weeds was also
another chore. Bitterbark (small
tree), which Nick called 'suckers',
on over 700 acres, were eliminated
by chopping them down and
poisoning the stem with a special
product. Although this sounds like
hard work, Laurie enjoyed it. "I
could see kangaroo while working,
and once an emu. One day a dingo
came within 10 feet of me."
Flies were a big problem in this
area, Laurie says. Before her depar-
ture from New Zealand, Andrew
Linn had given her a special hat
around which hung corks from
•see Drought, page SA
Dtplomate, a Brahman stud bull on the farm of Nick and Rhonda
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