Meet the Horses Day 1
Today we get to meet our horses, but not until we do a 2 hour 4 wd trip. All the horses are white so if your horse has a distinguishing mark you need to take a mental note. The horses dont have names so we gave our horses one. Ann called hers Ghengis so it was only fitting I called mine Khan. The horses are around 14.2 hands, but these are renowned for their stamina and endurance. After being assigned a horse, and setting our stirrup heights we were soon under way. They almost immediately go into a trot and with shorter legs than our own horses, it is harder than we are used to. We trotted and walked for about an hour and we eventually got our rhythm. We had covered 6.5 km and we got a call to rescue. It seems both 4wd vehicles were bogged and need to be pulled out. It was quite comical watching everyone hooked up to a rope and horse tethers trying to pull 4wd out of an axle deep bog. The horse tethers snapped and all the ladies hit the dirt. Peristance pai...