Steve Bethell from Carrfields, Timaru, kindly offered to share his knowledge with the students over breakfast. His wealth of knowledge and passion for the subject had all the students enthusiastic about their assessment and a few are now considering agronomy as a potential career path. We would like to thank him for his time and also thank U-Bake for the great breakfast! 

Flying onto the beach at Mason Bay the class then proceeded to walk via three huts back to Oban before flying out again. The weather conditions were pretty good which meant that we were able to take full advantage of good Kiwi spotting conditions, and the big southerly hit only after we were safely by the fire in North Arm Hut. A total of three kiwis were spotted!

This was a great trip, the only hiccup being a knee injury incurred by Mr Clack which meant he (strategically?) missed the big climb over the saddle. Flying back to Invercargill was interesting with the plane behaving like a helicopter at times due to the buffeting SW winds. Yet another enjoyable, once in a lifetime trip for the boys.