"When The Brumbies Came In" ...

...As requested by some of my blip followers - I've searched my old albums and have found a photo I was telling you about - of when the Wild Horses used to come into the Sheep Station, around the same time each day..I was working there as a governess in the year of 1964, but this photo was taken in 1961, when I was 17...

...The photo here is a little blurred but with the old Box Brownie cameras, they didn't allow for movement, and in it - they were moving as fast as any horse, proud and wild but I was able to capture just a few..

...Sometimes, one or two were able to be yarded and the youngest and strongest were able to be broken in - I do remember sitting on the cattle yard rails watching the men doing just that - ever so patiently, as the Brumbie's world had been halted suddenly..and they were no longer under the influence of 'The Boss'..the proud white stallion, you see here....We could hear and see them coming in, in a cloud of red dust - sometimes many, sometimes just a few, but always together with "The Boss" - the white stallion..

... And so one day I was determined to try to photograph the horses as they raced past us, quite arrogant, these wild horses with their manes and tails flowing in the air as you can see. and apparently trying to encourage the other young mares held within the stables, or around the station property - to "join the mob" - sometimes they were successful and the men would see "their horse" racing by with them, and it had to be rounded up once again..

...You can see where they are quite close to the homestead, this shot was taken in between one of the station hand's homes there, and the main homestead - they'd raced past many times before, and we could see the dust they created before they arrived, and ofcourse as they passed us by..

...I mentioned earlier in yesterday's blip, a few years later, I met an elderly lady who was a governess on the station as well as I was - but she was there in the late 1920s, and in an interview she recalled seeing hundreds of brumbies on the station, she also said that life back then was so hard - the station was a place of extremes with the nights cold and the days so hot...yes, I remember well..but we were both younger then and seemed to cope so well in those days long gone now, for both of us..

...I'm sorry the picture above is not as clear as I would have liked but it will give you an idea of - When The Brumbies Came In..

And thankyou to all who put my blip of yesterday into the spotlight page early in the morning..I do appreciate all of your wonderful comments..and thankyou again..I hope my stories of long ago - haven't been too boring for you..