Australian Farmstay Holidays ...
SALLY BRAY runs farmstay holidays in Australia where people from all over the planet, including from within our brown land, connect with the Australian bush in congenial real-life situations ...
There’s nothing like an Aussie Bush Farmstay.
Farmstays are a popular type of holiday for all types of adventurous travellers. Both young and old like to get out into the country and experience life on a farm.
The features of farmstays vary greatly from venue to venue. Some are just accommodation on a farm, a cottage in a rural setting where visitors can get out of the ratrace and relax in peace. Others offer the opportunity to observe and participate in a working farm; collect eggs, feed lambs watch as the farmers complete their daily activities. Or there’s the tourist farmstay where the business has become an avenue to daily showcase demonstrations of all types of farming activities.
Aussie Farmstay and Bush Adventures offers a farmstay which is unique. Not only do visitors get to stay on and observe a working sheep and mixed farm, it’s a farm which hasn’t changed in some ways for over 50 years and still used horses for cultivation and transport. But what really sets an Aussie Farmstay and Bush Adventures farmstay apart is the friendships visitors make with the many generous and hospitable people who they meet.
On the farmstay the tour minibus arrives at Inglevale, in the hills outside of the small village of Eugowra in the afternoon. There begins an experience which most visitors vow they will never forget. They are met by owners Bill and Mary Norris. After introductions, Bill uses his horse Gypsy Rose and his dog Harley to round up a mob of sheep.
Harley takes great delight in showing off his skills in manoeuvring the stock under the commands of Bill. In the shearing shed Bill, who works as a shearer, demonstrates sheep shearing using both electrical combs and hand blades and explains the finer points of wool classing.
Bill and Mary bought the farm from Bill’s parents Wilf and Pat, who now live in nearby Eugowra and have a small nearby property where Wilf keeps his draught horses and grows crops every year. Wilf and Pat come to every farmstay too, to meet the visitors and demonstrate his horses at work. The horses are harnessed in various teams to plough a field, work a bag kicker and take visitors on a ride in a cart up between the rugged the hills of the property.
Born in 1927 Wilf bought Inglevale in 1954 and he and Pat had 8 children on the farm. After the birth of their last child Pat decided she would like the luxury of electricity, so they moved to farm house close to the town of Forbes where the children went to school, and that is where I first met the family, when Bill and some of his brothers and sisters travelled to school on the same bus as myself.
After the various farming demonstrations, time to relax around the campfire and see who else will arrive. My parents John and Jan come up to meet me and the visitors. My parents owned a farm on the other side of Eugowra until they retired and moved into Forbes 6 years ago. Any of Bill’s brothers or sisters sometimes come out to, with their partners and/or children and friends. Friends of Bill, Mary, Wilf, Pat, John or Jan are likely to arrive. The locals love to come to meet international travellers and to join in with the entertainment which follows.
While Mary prepares dinner, Bill and sometimes other locals provide some entertainment of whip cracking, and Harley, Bill’s dog does ticks as does Gipsy Rose, Bill’s horse. Then we sit down to eat a country feast. Prime lamb chops, gourmet beef sausages and marinated kangaroo kebabs are BBQed and accompanied by fresh vegetables potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, and onions roasted in a campoven. Dessert consists of Cocky’s Joy, an Australian favourite made with freshly baked damper with golden syrup. There could be more than 20 people around the table and the yarns flow freely as old friendships are renewed and new ones made.
After dinner, around the campfire Bill plays his guitar and sings Australian folk songs. Sometimes Pat or Bill’s brother Laurie recite Australian bush poetry. And the camaraderie continues into the night until we retire to our camp tents.
In the morning we wake up to a hearty country breakfast. Toads-in-a-hole (fried eggs cooked in a circle of bread as an egg ring) are accompanied with bacon, tomatoes, toast or pancakes or muffins and enjoyed around the resurrected campfire and the visitors enjoy their last conversations with Bill, Mary, Wilf, Pat, John and Jan while I pack up. I can say that of the 4 mornings on tour, the one leaving the farm is the hardest to get the travellers into the bus as they linger to chat to genuine, honest, bush Aussies.
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To find out stacks more about Aussie Bush Adventures, check out Sally's website www.aussiebushadventures.com.au which showcases great tours into Western New South Wales running out of Sydney. Get yourself a slice of that Bush Adventure vibe! Or follow Sally on Twitter via http://twitter.com/aussiefarmstay
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