Ginger - Anisha Lee - was mingling with the swaggers at the estate's annual Harvest Home festival yesterday. She cut quite a dash in her low-cut top, bright red skirt and green stockings, as she enjoyed a cup of billy tea around the campfire.
Her role was to be the distraction in the annual swaggers' race to the top of nearby Sebastapol Hill.
Her technique, however, was between her and the swaggers, she said.
Miss Lee, who studies geology in Dunedin, enjoyed dressing up as Ginger for the festival, along with at the heritage race meeting and Victorian fete, during Oamaru's Victorian heritage celebrations in November.
"You swan around and get given things like billy tea and it's awesome," she said.
Country singer Tami Neilson was the headline act at the festival, which included plenty of other entertainment.
There were heritage and traditional craft displays and demonstrations, vintage machinery, a stock-whip show and magician Jonathan Usher.
An animal tent with pups, guinea pigs and kunekune pigs proved popular with children, while blacksmith Malcolm Oakes was busy working in the forge. Claire Elliott and Dawn Brown were selling raffle tickets and Girl Guide biscuits, raising money for next year's jamboree in Rotorua."
