A Visit to Morrinsville

The Sport and Light families are visiting Morrinsville to look at the life size statues of fiberglass cows. The cows have been painted by different artists and all have a different picture painted on them.

                                  

Daniel is standing next to one of the life size painted cows that are in Morrinsville, New Zealand.

Alice is standing by one of the many cows in the town of Morrinsville.

The boys are standing by some other cow statues.

This is the Mega Cow, Mabel who is 6.5 metres tall.

The children look at photos of some of the cows that are on wall.

The Sport Family are in front of the pamphlet which gives details about the life size herd of cows.

Update: Morrinsville celebrated a decade of the 'Herd of Cows' in April 2025.

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Grandmother Esther and Sara have taken Joy to visit the Morrinsville Gallery where they get copies of a colour in picture of a cow to take back to Kowhai Corner for the children to colour in. (November 2025)

Paeroa

The Breeze family visit Paeroa, the town where the L&P drink is made. They stop to have their photo taken in front of the large painted concrete bottle. The beverage is based on therapeutic spring water which, mixed with lemon, is what we know today as the drink Lemon & Paeroa (or L&P) World Famous in New Zealand. The iconic 7 metre high 1.3 metre diameter structure stands pride of place in Paeroa,