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lovre47 64M
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4/24/2010 9:23 pm
AUTUMN AND ANZAC DAY 2
I wasn't really sure where i wanted to go, anywhere other than just sit at home feeling bored, so i decided to head for Taupo and photograph the willow trees on the Waikato River just above Huka falls. I love it this time of the year when the trees are turning yellow and the golden sunsets, the days are warm and the morning mists just add more reason to just glorify God for all He has done for us.
chocnroses 69F
2405 posts
4/24/2010 9:55 pm

 Beautiful pic! Our church service was based on the story of the taking of Beersheba and the lighthorse brigade ..


ladylightwalker

4/24/2010 9:56 pm

 Beautifulll pics. Ya should post the pics in the post itself. Then it will be bigger.


"Love is Patient..."


lovre47 64M

4/25/2010 2:36 am

 Its interesting you mention the Light Horse Brigade as in WW1 the Australian and New Zealand Light Horse Regiments were a very unique part of the war, there was the Mounted Infantry De fence remained key to the Australian and New Zealand de fence posture
4th Light Horse Brigade
4th,11th and 12th Light Horse Brigade in combination with New Zealand troops, the squadron of the 4th.
The brigades served even into WW2 but after that were scaled down to just a small regiment that lasted almost until the Vietnam war,
The horses were the cavalry horses of the time and were specially bred for army purposes but were later retired from active service.
This morning at the Anzac dawn service in Hastings they had one of the horses there that were still in active duty and was a beautiful animal and well trained.
The horses that were put out of service were released back into the wild, an area of wilderness zone in the central North Island wilderness that is between Waiouru and Taupo called the Kaimanawa kaweka national parks and they exist now as the brumby mobs of the central North Island.
Back in 1992 the Government sent in animal cullers to bring down the numbers of the brumby mobs as the herds were getting too large, some people bought them but they never adapted to captivity very well and died.
They have been a very popular feature of the back country tussock lands there and are very ideal for them as it is all pumice country there and beach forest, at night if you are camping in the back country huts you can hear them in the valleys below.
Quite often when i am tramping through there i have seen their hoof prints in the dirt but never seen them myself but they wander through a very large area of wilderness.
The cavalry horses of New Zealand are not a recent thing as back in the early days when we were just being settled as a colony of England they used them to put down the Maori uprisings.