Miss Lee (32) spent 16 months on the property, joining Jodie Ruddenklau, who was the first female shepherd employed on the station.
Last weekend, Miss Lee returned to the station, along with other past and present staff, neighbours and associates, to help the Cameron family celebrate 100 years of ownership.
Camping out during musters was one of the highlights of the job. During the day, there was communication but not conversation with workmates.
When the shepherds returned to the hut at night, there were stories "bubbling'' away just waiting to be told.
"You don't have an atmosphere like that anywhere else,'' she said.
For the past four years, Miss Lee has been running the family farm with her sister Beatrice. Running a property was "totally different'' to being a shepherd, she said.
The Lee sisters are working towards organic certification on their sheep and beef property and should be fully Bio-Gro certified in 2010.
Brian Simpson, now retired in Pareora, remembered the work with horses at Otematata, and mustering out the back "for weeks''.
He had initially gone from Dunedin as a youth to milk the cows at Omarama Station with instructions from his mother that he was to go to church on Sundays and he was not to drink.
He moved on to packing and mustering at Omarama before shifting to Otematata as a shepherd.
Mr Simpson particularly remembered a killing-shed in the yard. The object was to back into it and knock it off the piles.
"Everybody did it,'' he said. The killing shed was no longer there, he noted.
Colin Wallace, from Invercargill, who has been wool-classing at Otematata for about 18 years, spends a month at the station each year. The property ran very good all-round sheep, he said.