It’s Dorrigo’s annual Show this weekend, so we drove across to visit. Dorrigo is about 110 km (70 miles) east of here. It has a much higher rainfall than us and is a rich, lush agricultural area. Dairy farming is more commonplace than here (we have sheep/wool as a major industry).
An audioBlog accompanies these photographs [4 Mbytes, 8 min 0 sec duration]. The audio commentary is also distributed as a podcast. You need to subscribe to my RSS2 feed towards the bottom of the right hand column on this page and you need to use aggregator software capable of utilising this. The photographs are also included within the .mp3 file. View them via iTunes artwork, for example.
At this time of year, and especially where there are lots on animals around, the flies are thick and annoying. This horse certainly had plenty to say on the matter - it’s tail flicking left and right.
Just how quickly can you chop a solid wooden block into two parts? Not very long at all - especially if the axe is sharp.
Horse jumping. You’d never get me up in one of those things!
There were several classes of cattle being judged. The animals and handlers waited patiently for the judges to get around to them.
Two onlookers. The sun was strong so just about everybody was hugging the shade. Those that weren’t in the shade were already an unpleasant shade of pink.
At the drinks booth, two oldtimers catch up on each other’s news.