Come experience a picnic in an alpaca pasture and learn about these adorable animals.
Registration is required.
That's right! A picnic with alpacas! - An experience with a group of floofs guaranteed to put smiles on the faces of those in the foulest of moods!
You'll get to sit and drink and eat and be merry while surrounded by a pack of friendly alpacas. We'll even leave you with a bucket of alpaca food. Some will come up as curious about you as you are about them. Some won't even acknowledge your existence. But the one thing that is guaranteed is that ALL of them will put smiles on your face that you may never be able to wipe.
The Original Alpaca Experience was founded by Wasim Muklashy & Amanda VandenBosch. Wasim, a professional travel & fine art photographer and Bend real estate photographer, found himself willingly thrust into the alpaca world for the past few years, shooting for various farms and alpaca programs. In 2019, while shooting in Peru for Quechua Benefit, a non-profit supporting economic benefits for underserved communities in the Peruvian highlands, he met Amanda VandenBosch, one of the world's premiere alpaca breeders and international alpaca judges. That encounter blossomed into a friendship which led to him living and working at Flying Dutchman Alpacas, Amanda's family alpaca farm in Bend, Oregon, during part of the pandemic year.
Taking his morning coffee and lunch in the alpaca paddocks during those magical months was pure therapy for Wasim, which is something Amanda understood very well. They both quickly realized that if these buggers were therapeutic to them, they'd be therapeutic to others as well. So, they figured why not share them with to the world, especially after a year where most of us can certainly use it!
Questions? Contact beccar@dpls.lib.or.us
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Adult Program |
Registered participants will receive meet-up instructions.
