This is the drive into the shearing shed...bitumen to a shearing shed???? yep ..we where told by one of the Rotarian's who we were working with today .... that when the Queen , no less than Queen Elizabeth herself ....came on an official royal visit to the State in 1958 ....she stayed at this property and it is the only private property in Australia that she has stayed at....impressive hey???? So she drove down this road and turned off to the original homestead ...sorry a can't show you a pic of the Homestead itself as it was out of bounds for us ...you have to have a clearance to get through the gates.. we couldn't even see it from the drive in.
just to give you an idea how big it is...this is a property sign post .... apparently the boundary fences run for 110 kilometers square.... to far for a nice walk!!!!
Anyway who would want to walk in this....the puddles were so frozen and the ice was really thick...it only broke when the utes and trucks drove on it...brrrr
dotted all over the property are these stone or convict brick cottages... now used as shearers quarters and used for only the one or two periods of time a year...shearing and dipping ...next week there will be 18 thousand sheep go through to be dipped against diseases and then the next week they will be shorn....
of course there are no mod cons like central heating or heat pumps...just wood from the property to heat up the water and fuel the fire to keep you warm....
MMMMMmmm this is from hence comes your shower water....
sadly this was once a farm workers cottage where the wife used this cast iron wood stove to warm the heart of this humble home, cooked a roast leg of lamb plus boiled the huge cast iron kettle for a very tired farm labourer to have a hot bath in front of the open fire once a week when all the kids had gone to bed....ohhh i am glad for modernization...
MMMMMmmm this is from hence comes your shower water....
sadly this was once a farm workers cottage where the wife used this cast iron wood stove to warm the heart of this humble home, cooked a roast leg of lamb plus boiled the huge cast iron kettle for a very tired farm labourer to have a hot bath in front of the open fire once a week when all the kids had gone to bed....ohhh i am glad for modernization...
HAPPY 125TH POST TO ME...... YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! NO PRIZES FOR YOU SORRY ......BUT YOU CAN SEND ME ONE IF YOU LIKE......
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