Horse Beach Experience

My ‘Horse Beach Experience’, seemed like a really good idea at the time. From the dreamer ‘everything is awesome’ part of my brain, came the thought process- I can get customers to pay me to take my horses to the beach… On the outside, it all seems dreamy. On a hot day, I take the […]

Say What??

It’s always easier to see things from an insiders perspective, but I think what we do is fairly self-explanatory. We use one or 2 horses to pull a carriage.  With a bit more thought, one could realise that a horse is not comparable to a car and we won’t travel at a comparable speed, or […]

The Disappointment that was The Royal Adelaide Show

You know when you have a brilliant idea and think it’s infallible, but then it is just a huge letdown on every level? That about sums up the Royal Adelaide Show for me this year.  Entries close for the Adelaide Royal, way back in May, so it is months between putting entries in and going, […]

How much does it cost to own a Horse?

This is a great question, I’m really glad you asked! We actually get asked this a lot. The answer however is not a simple one.  There are so many facets and variations of horse ownership that it is hard to put a figure on it. All horses need a paddock, or yard. If you have […]

The tentative step into offering lessons

If you have read some of my other blogs, you will know that we started from scratch. We are self taught at this whole harness gig, learning as we went, thanks to our gorgeous Calvin. Until probably 5 years ago, I had never even driven any other horse than Calvin. I then broke Trudy in […]

Boris and the battle of the horse float

If you have been following us for a while, you will know of Boris, who is one half of the pair affectionately known as the delinquents. Aka Boris the bastard. Now, Boris is a magnificent creature, standing at nearly 17hh weighing in at approximately 750kgs and is only 5 years of age. He was a […]

Angus and the Sunday Vet Bill

You may have seen our ‘Vet Bill Special’ recently. This blog is to explain the reason for this!  Each morning my first job for the day is to feed the horses. They get a hard feed morning and night, and when doing so I always do a quick poo count to make sure it’s coming […]

Can I use my own carriage?

Let’s face it, our horses are brilliant! We have such a lovely team of well trained, patient horses in a variety of colours. It takes years to get horses this good.  Carriages on the other hand, can sit in the shed for years, untouched and get pulled out for special occasions. This has resulted in […]

SA Tourism Awards- Gala Night

Following on from our previous blog, we managed after much sufferance, to submit an entry for the SA Tourism awards.  While all entrants were invited to the Gala Dinner, being held at Adelaide Oval, we decided to wait to find out if we were finalists before booking our hotel room, or tickets and organising clothing […]

2021 Tourism awards

Sometimes I have really good ideas. I would say that deciding to enter the SA tourism awards, was perhaps not one of them.  I guess the key thing that I realise now, is that really there isn’t a category suitable for a business as small as ours. Our category was ‘tour and transport operator- under […]