Day 1: Hume Weir

We started in Griffith around 11:40 am where the GOLD crew picked me up at my flat. We headed up to the shop to get the gear and then got some petrol for our trip. We had some chips for lunch as we were driving. It was about 12:30 when we left Griffith and started heading out on the Kidman Way toward Darlington Point.

We stopped at the truck stop just out of Narrandera. While we were there James and myself went in and bought some globes to fix the trailer indicator. James bought the wrong globes and so had to spend another $3.00 to buy the correct type.

We then went drove to Lockhart which was quite old school. From Lockhart we headed to the town of Burrenbuttocks (which James had fun with the second half of the name.) Then we continued into Albury and picked up Savvy off the train.

From the train we went to Frank’s farm in the Hume Weir. When we arrived we started unpacking the trailer whilst waiting for Frank to come. When Frank arrived he gave us the grand tour of his lovely house and where we would sleep.

Once we put our gear in the bedrooms we headed up to watch Frank dock lambs and he talked us through crutching. I did some recording on the Mini-Disk of different sounds in the shed as well as recording what everyone said.

Frank then set up a loading race so that he can load the sheep into the Ute for the markets tomorrow.

On the way to the shed and on the way back Holly showed us her awesome driving abilities. We then made huge commotion about her driving abilities because we had not seen her drive before.

We went into Franks nice house and talked while Frank cooked us a lovely indian dinner which was magnificent. After dinner some of the guys started washing up and making us a cup of coffee. And we are now watching a movie called “The real Dirt on Farmer John”.

End Day One

Robert Brewer

GOLD Blogger.