S for sheep! Did you know that New Zealand is home to 4 millions of people and 40 millions of sheep? Come and meet one of them here:
From Groovynannies. The first sheep were landed in New Zealand by Captain Cook in 1773. Since then sheep are farmed largely in this country for theair meat and wool and New Zealand now contributes 25% of world total strong wool production.
From Buttercup65. Now I envy these sheep coz they live in such a heavenly beautiful place as this!! See the mountain! And speaking of heavenly, they say sheep DO go to heaven, meanwhile goats go to hell! I am not sure what the poor goats have done wrong!
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See more of the S entries for ABC Wednesday here!
photowannabe
May 27th, 2009Perfect post for the letter S. My dream is to visit New Zealand someday. It looks gorgeous.
RuneE
May 27th, 2009Goats chew tobacco – maybe that is it? :-)
Come and visit Norwegian sheep!
Sylvia Kirkwood
May 27th, 2009Perfect S word! and beautiful shots! Love the first one! What a woolly guy!
Molokai Girl
May 27th, 2009More sheep than people, huh? I never would’ve thought…
Marie
May 27th, 2009I loved the video too! The song is so catchy and I like how he writes out the lyrics! So creative:) Happy ABC Wednesday!
spacedlaw
May 27th, 2009Poor goats indeed. But that sheep is mighty cute.
Ninnu
May 27th, 2009That sheep sure has a funny face =D
kadermo
May 27th, 2009Sheep are popular today. I love your photos.
Rose
May 27th, 2009A great choice for the letter S! I had no idea that sheep were first introduced to New Zealand by Captain Cook. Such a beautiful country! On behalf of the ABC team, thank you for sharing!
fortuitous faery
May 28th, 2009that’s a lot of sheep! count enough and you’ll fall asleep! hehe.
Tumblewords
May 28th, 2009I see sheep! Great shots! Beautiful country. I had no idea goats went to hell. But I’ll not forget. :)
ilyani
May 28th, 2009err.. those are postcards that I received from NZ actually. Not my photograph ^_^ anyway, see the blog title..