• Shear Outback Hay NSW

    May 23 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    Get here in good time for the 10.30am shearing demonstration. We pay our $20 each entry fee - and I purchase a hatpin. Then we enjoy looking at the displays before heading to the Woolshed to see 'Jack' shear a cross-bred sheep. Jack gives a very good outline of the shearing 'game' and its costs and potential earnings.
    After this, we check out the outside maze - I can't be bothered trying to work it out, Rog has a go, but the drizzly weather has us going back inside the display shed. Feel proud and sad at the same time to see a memorial blade plaque in honour of Adam McClure RIP.
    We spend quite a while here - looking at the history and reading about shearing in Australia and beyond.
    When we leave, we're ready to have some lunch - decide to go back to our caravan to make up our own.
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