Escape to the Country…

Driving to a beach down the road from House the other day, we met a mob of sheep being shifted to fresh pasture.

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This grazing property is my all time favourite. If I won a lottery and the owners would sell, I would buy it yesterday (that’s not to say I don’t love our own farm with it’s wonderful old stone barn and ruins of stables, bakehouse, smithy’s and more).

Imagine having this sort of view out of the shearing shed on a hot summer’s day.

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Or standing at the old stone stables (where we stabled our horses for a night when we were kids, having ridden to Rheban from Orford) and looking at this beach, every day.

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The cattle yards for the herd of Angus cattle they breed on the property.

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The shearers’ quarters overlooking the beach. Don’t reckon there’s a shearer around that wouldn’t want to work here.

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Best point of all, it looks across to my favourite getaway island where no one lives except for the Ranger and where are my favourite beaches – Chinamens’ Beach and Fourmile Creek.

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