Horses going home....

Today we are taking our horses back home.
It has been a few days since Claude found them after they had been stolen.
read about it  here..
They stayed in the mountains with a friendly farmer for a few days to recover after their gruelling and tiring journey through bush and fields with the thieves. 

Fiji is a beautiful mountainous country with lots of sugarcane farms and forests.

Besides sugarcane, which is the main crop, there are large pineapple farms, cash crops and chicken farms in the area.

Mangoes were not fruiting well this year, unlike last year, but the trees gave as splendid a display as ever.

Annual rainfall is between 2500 - 6000mm per year, the rivers are full and the vegetation is lush and green.

It is pineapple time!

Ronelle passing a wedding procession along the way.

We walked our horses most of the way because they got spooked by passers-by in cars and buses who thought it a friendly gesture to wave and shout or hoot in greeting !  We also felt that they might not have recovered fully in just 2 days. 

The sugarcane tracks meander through  villages and houses.  Ronelle found the tracks  a safer option and less stressful to follow.

Our route home leads Claude  through the beautiful Vitogo Parade, one of the palm lined avenues of Lautoka City.

Strutting right through town with the horses.

Another beautiful street in Lautoka.

 My baby heading home, smiling as ever!

Finally  HOME !!!!!!

Bosse and Maria, the kids,  the dogs....all were happy and welcomed the horses home.

I must clarify - home for now is where they have been living for 4 years...at our work place Worx Fiji Limited.  When the farm is cleared sufficiently and water has been layed on, they will be relocated to their proper home - Naciriyawa Farm.
                                                          Hopefully pretty soon.