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 […]
Horse Drawn Christmas Light Tours
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…. Or at least that’s what the jingles and festivities want us to believe. We started Christmas light tours about 8 years ago, when we were looking for ways to expand our carriage offerings. It’s kind of been a love hate relationship with them since then. Christmas Light […]
Types and Variations to Harness
A very important, but rarely mentioned component of our equipment is our harness. Without a harness we wouldn’t be able to attach our horses to the carriages, so I thought in this blog I would discuss the types of harnesses we use and variations that are available. Like every thing in this game there are […]
Horse Drawn Carriages and Traffic
A common question we are asked, is how our horses deal with the traffic. From our point of view, a better question would be; how do the traffic deal with a horse drawn vehicle? I’m writing this blog to answer those questions, but also to be a bit of a guide, for those drivers that […]
Horse Shoes and the job of the farrier
If you have owned or ridden horses, you would know about farriers and hoof maintenance but hoof maintenance is a question we get asked about often while out and about with our horses, so this blog is to hopefully answer any of those questions you may have. Obviously this is my version, with every facet […]