What tourists love to see on a ‘so-called’ State Highway (?) in remote heartland King Country… a litter of wild pigs.
An inspiration for a memorable father-son bonding trip during school holidays…
Congratulations to Cooper Patterson. Cooper managed to talk his Dad into a fishing trip (he didn’t have to try too hard…) hoping to land his first wild Tongariro Rainbow trout. As reported yesterday, they caught over twenty… Note how their images cleverly fail to indicate which pool…
But to make it more of an adventure the road trip included a return on the “Forgotten World Highway” (SH43) – the windy tourist route west of Taumarunui to Stratford in Taranaki. You can imagine Cooper’s excitement when they came across heaps (?) of wild pigs.
Or are they a “litter”? Or a herd? Or a mob? “Heaps” sounded OK? So I googled it – as follows: The name for a group of pigs depends on the animals’ ages. A group of young pigs is called a drift, drove or litter. Groups of older pigs are called a sounder of swine, a team or passel of hogs or a singular of boars. So now you know… I still like “heaps”…
Ian (Dad) posted the following:
Morning Ross.
Read your morning report so sent some photographic evidence!!!
Not at all a fishy story, but on the way back to Taranaki through the forgotten highway came across these running down the road…. The interesting thing was that about the same amount had already charged of up around the corner out of site before Cooper got my phone out.
Not so unusual to see on the road and actually hit one a couple years back, but have never seen numbers like that in a mob before. No nose rings so think they were wild…???