Archives for March 2017

NEW ZEALAND’S BELOVED HORSE TRAIL

For the last 25 years, a collection of 19th century horse drawn vehicles have re-enacted one of the most dramatic cross country journeys in the southern hemisphere.

Images from the Goldfields Cavalcade

On November 22, 1991, the first Goldfields Cavalcade departed from Rockland’s Station, just outside the small South Island town of  Middlemarch, and headed inland over the Dunstan Trail to Cromwell. It re-traced the route taken by the first Cobb and Co. coach that left Dunedin on November 22nd 1862 and headed to the Dunstan Goldfields. read more