What was once a rocky outcrop used by shepherds to clock their flock is now the site of an off-grid retreat high on an East Otago sheep and beef farm. Words: Claire Finlayson Photos: Rachael McKenna A soundtrack of real-time muted sheep bleats with cicada backing vocals: this is the face of “new luxe”. Or so Sarah and Dave Smith hoped when they took a nervous punt and built a posh cabin on a precipitous schist rock outcrop on their hill country farm. They needn’t have worried. Agritourism has been going gangbusters recently — such is the modern-day hunger for