Pikinini SipSip

Whoever said that New Zealand is the land of Sheep obviously had never been to Scotland. I mean New Zealand has a ton of sheep, but I dare say Scotland has them beat. You can't go anywhere without seeing a sheep. And they just stare too. Anywhere you go you are guaranteed that there is a sheep somewhere watching you, not even exaggerating (Ok maybe a little). But seriously it’s quite disturbing at times, like the beginning of some sort of a really terrible horror film.

Sometimes you can come across a cute lamb and maybe even a cute sheep, but mostly there is just something a bit alarming about them. You never quite know what they are going to do. They just stare at you and start breathing heavily and immediately I fear that in confusion and general stupidity they will charge straight at me instead of fleeing in the opposite direction. However, I am happy to report that I have not been trampled by a panicked sheep (...yet).

We get a few sheep that come down and graze around Camas(Although Tawhai the dog tends to chase the poor stupid creatures away. Which also unfortunately means that the grass is ridiculously long as our ultimate organic lawnmowers aren’t around much anymore.) and you can most defiantly be sure that there is always a sheep on one of the surrounding hills perpetually looking down on you. We do get a bit of entertainment when sheep manages to get themselves stuck on the tidal islands in the bay. Oh the small things in life! Click HERE for a video of one of these unlucky fluffs. 

I must admit that I've taken quite a few pictures of 'sipsip'  and 'pikinini sipsip' (Sorry ,just throwing in a bit of Solomon Islands Pijin in there, I miss it! I have to admit that I find myself saying a few phrases here and there in Pijin and the funny thing is that no one ever seems to realize that I'm not really speaking English… I figured though that's just because it sounds way more like English than most of what comes out of the Scots mouths.) and here are some of them.

 Field of some local Isle of Iona sheep

This sheep is effectively demonstrating the "we're always watching you" pose.

 And these two are demonstrating the shocked and confused look. I also kind of think that the one on the left looks a bit like a lion...maybe that's just me though

 A little 'pikinini sipsip' bum

Flocks of sheep on the pastures of a nearby castle

 It's nice to see that people value their sheep as much as their children here.