Last weekend, we took a seven hour drive to Camrose, Alberta to visit Ostara Farm, owned by Danny & Kim Boyco.  They are Scottish Blackface breeders.  We purchased a registered yearling ram, “Ostara Flaithri 32A” (view his pedigree) and a registered four year old ewe, Ostara Ciara 27X (view her pedigree)to add to our Scottish Blackface flock.  I will add a photo of the ewe soon.

Yearling ram, Ostara Flaithri 32A. (Photo credit: Ostara Farm)

Our new Bluefaced Leicester yearling ram.

On our way home, we went around by Lucky Lake, SK and purchased our first Bluefaced Leicester ram from Brad Peters.  Now we can start producing the UK famous Scotch Mules!

It was a most enjoyable trip!  The fall colors and scenery everywhere were beautiful.  After picking up the BFL ram, we crossed the Diefenbaker Lake on the Riverhurst Ferry which was a first for us.

It is a cable ferry on highway 42, linking the town of Riverhurst on the east side, to Lucky Lake on the west side.The ferry leaves the west side on the half hour and takes about 15 minutes to cross the 1.5 kilometers.  It leaves the east side on the top of every hour and runs 24 hours a day till the lake freezes over, usually in December.

Arriving at the Riverhurst, Saskatchewan ferry.

Out in the middle of Diefenbaker lake on the ferry.

Arriving on the east side of the lake.

The Riverhurst Ferry is Saskatchewan’s largest ferry, with a length of 35.6 metres (117 ft), a width of 14 metres (46 ft), and a weight of 90.7 tonnes. It carries a maximum of 15 cars on each crossing. It is powered by a computer controlled engine and powers a central drive cable. There are three guide cables, two mounted one foot from the left and right sides, and a middle cable running underneath the hull.

“Riverhurstferry2″ by Saskjon – Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons