Four generations of the Douglas family have lived at Dome Hills Station, where mustering is still done on horseback through the high-country tussock land. NEAR DUNTROON, APPROACHING Danseys Pass, you enter fossil country - a land in which the limestone captured dolphins, sharks, even whales, during an epoch when everything here was under water. It's a route they call the Vanished World Trail. Take the road that climbs above all this, up into the foothills of the Kakanui Mountains, and you come to Dome Hills Station, home of David and Cindy Douglas. You might say that this place also represents a near-vanished world -that of the high-country family farm. It's a world of mustering by horseback and remote huts, with vast flocks of sheep driven by dogsthrough long-shadowed tussock land. Big sky country - 7000ha of it - with views all the way to the North Otago coast.
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