In a country like New Zealand, where the population sits at somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-10 times as many sheep as people, it's reasonable that there would be sheep shearers around every corner. Combine that with the natural human tendency to compete and it just makes sense that you'd also find sheep shearing competitions, which is exactly what Casey did in the Hokitika public library.
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Above is the sunset sky over some barley fields next to the workstay we've been at since arriving in New Zealand at the end of January. We had a day long layover in Auckland before continuing on south - time enough to realize that we are well and truly out of Southeast Asia. The roads here are wider and don't carry a quarter of the motorbikes, street food relatively just doesn't exist, and there's a quiet stillness that I think we only found a few times in Asia*.
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