Sam Neill's 57-acre "Red Bank" property on the Earnscleugh Flats near Clyde, Central Otago, is seen extending from Earnscleugh Road to the foothills of the Old Man Range whose famous snowy peak is visible mid-picture at the top of the frame. The large ponds in the foreground property and Neill's property too, are the reservoirs for water, drawn mostly from the nearby Clutha River, for the very necessary Summer and Autumn irrigation of the diverse agriculture on them, for stone and pip fruit as well as grapes.

Sam Neill's 57-acre "Red Bank" property on the Earnscleugh Flats near Clyde, Central Otago, is seen extending from Earnscleugh Road to the foothills of the Old Man Range whose famous snowy peak is visible mid-picture at the top of the frame. The large ponds in the foreground property and Neill's property too, are the reservoirs for water, drawn mostly from the nearby Clutha River, for the very necessary Summer and Autumn irrigation of the diverse agriculture on them, for stone and pip fruit as well as grapes.