Sunday trip to Glencoe

We started our Sunday morning with a delicious breakfast at the gallery, cooked by Peieta. Everyone was smiling an giggling as soon as they saw each other, but I really have no idea why O: - )

So our group started the trip to Glencoe Station in good mood and curious about how a real sheep station and real outback sheep shearer work.




The farm owners Helen and Huge Miller welcomed us hearty (have you noticed that I write something like that everytime we going to someones place out here?) and after the first informative talks we made our way into the shearing sheds. There were about 6 shearers and at least 12 shed hands who do an amazing job!

Huge was passionate in telling everything that he knows about wool, sheep and the work which comes with. To admit, it was very impressive how he evaluate the strength of the wool and its quality. That attests a lot of experience and knowledge!

All what you see in this shed is about hard hands-on work and highest sciences. The sheep have to get shorn by hand and the wool gets classed by hand.

After the wool is sorted, it get pressed and they put a print with the quality and the stations name on it. You have to send probations into a classing office, to get a certificate how good your wool is.

It was very interesting to follow Huge’s and Helen’s explanations. You simply can’t imagine that something like this is what people live from. For a European it’s hard to understand that this is real. It’s more like a little extract of an old movie. But it is quite honestly fascinating.

Afterwards we enjoyed the fresh air and had billy tea and damper with the station owners. Really yummy and old-fashioned. Sid tried his best to copy the way Helen poured the tea in the cups, but to be honest - it didn’t work, although it doesn’t look that bad when a man takes over some ‘housework’ ;).

All of us had a lot of fun, especially Kai as he found a friend for a lifetime: another black sheep! Have a look at the picture and you’ll see why.

We even had the chance to sit on a motorbike with a dog in front and in the back. They are trained to jump on the bike and stay there while riding! Cool!

Of course we took some “I am sitting on a bike with two dogs at a sheep station in the outback” pictures.

Kai was also allowed to have a little drive with the quad – of course with a dog on the back!


We learned a lot and got an insight of real station work. Unfortunately we had to leave Glencoe Station to pack up our stuff and get prepared for the coming painful goodbye.

The first tears nearly dropped as we had to leave our new four-legged, tail wagging friends from Glencoe station..

Our ways split up at the Cunnamulla Airport, where the Skytrans flight service took our group except Leesa and Kathrin to Brisbane.

Thanks all of you again for these great three days!

Thanks for coming to Cunnamulla, spending time with us and being like you were!

I think I speak for everybody by saying special thanks to everybody who was involved and made the time as it was:

Wonderful!