A honey-scented Olearia is one of the station's precious native plants.
A native gentian surrounded by the invasive weed Hieracium.
Native broom.
Roadside lupins.
View toward a native tussock pasture grazed by Merino sheep.
The Simpsons' alpaca fibre is blended with merino wool.
Deer antlers in frozen storage.
View over protected wetland toward the Southern Alps.
Andrew and Karen Simpson.
A flowering sprig of patotara at Balmoral.
Karen and Andrew Simpson run their Southern Alps pastoral station according to conservation values. Photos by Gregor Richardson; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.