New Zealand Itinerary

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SDSU Agricultural Study Tour to New Zealand – May 2017

 

Sunday, May 7th               Leave for New Zealand

            4:35 pm           Flight leaves Minneapolis

            11:40 pm         Flight leaves Los Angeles

 

Tuesday, May 9th              Arrive Auckland

            7:40 am           Arrive in New Zealand & meet Ron McPhail (New Zealand Guide)

            Day’s activities:
                        Touring Auckland

Visiting Auckland Museum (magnificent display of Maori artifacts and New Zealand natural history)

Dinner at the Sky Tower (Tallest freestanding building in the Southern Hemisphere)

 

Wednesday, May 10th      Auckland – Hamilton

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit vegetable growers

                                    Balle Bros – onions

                                    Hiribana Bros – potatoes

                        Visit AgResearch – learn about meat production and supply

 

Thursday, May 11th          Rotorua

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit farm merchandise store

                        Visit the Grant Wills and Karen Preston’s dairy farm

                        Lunch at the Hobbiton

                        Skyline Gondola ride to dinner


Friday, May 12th               Rotorua

Day’s activities:

                        Visit the Agrodome

Stop at the Te Puia – the Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve and the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute

Tumunui Maori Lands Trust

Enjoy a Maori Hangi

 

Saturday, May 13th          Rotorua – Napier

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit Kairuru Polled Hereford Stud

                        Visit Fruit grower – Derek Barnes

 

Sunday, May 14th             Napier – Marton

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit the Farmers Market

                        Visit Maranoa farm – Deer and Friesian bulls operation

                        Visit a Sheep and Beef farm visit

                        Meet their farmstay host

 

Monday, May 15th            Wellington - Ashburton

            Day’s activities:

                        Say good-bye to farmstay host

                        Visit with Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Good-bye North Island – Hello South Island (flight from Wellington to Christchurch)

  

Tuesday, May 16th               Ashburton

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit with David Ward - crop farm (wheat, barley, peas, and grass seeds)

                        Visit Ted & Sue Rollinson’s dairy farm

 

Wednesday, May 17th      Ashburton - Twizel

            Day’s activities:

Visit the Haldon Station – Merino sheep, Hereford and Angus cattle, and Red deer

Lots of bus time

 

Thursday, May 18th          Twizel – Te Anau

            Day’s activities:

Visit the Earnscleugh Station – (High country property) Merino sheep, Hereford, Angus and Composite studs

 

Friday, May 19th                Te Anau

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit Mt Linton properties – Angus, Texel and Suftex studs

 

Saturday, May 20th          Te Anau – Lumsden

            Day’s activities:

Catamaran cruise on the Doubtful Sound – hoping to see dolphins, Fiordland Crested penguins and beautiful alpine scenery

Meet their farmstay host

 
Sunday, May 21st              Lumsden – Oamaru

            Day’s activities:

                        Say good-bye to farmstay host

                        Stop at the Moeraki Boulders

                        Observe the little Blue Penguins come ashore

 

Monday, May 22nd           Oamaru – Christchurch

            Day’s activities:

                        Visit Ard & Wilma van Leeuwen’s dairy

                        Visit Raymond Bowan’s property – potatoes, wheat and barley

 

Tuesday, May 23rd            Depart New Zealand

            6:05 am           Flights depart Christchurch

            3:40 pm           Arrive Minneapolis
 
CR McPhail Limited, PO Box 2091, Palmerston North 4440
Ph 06 357 1644.  Fax 06 357 1648, Email enquiries@crmcphail.co.nz  Website www.crmcphail.co.nz
 

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