Oliver of Otterburn meets the Big Merino
Wednesday 16 February,2011
My big news is that I am off travelling , I am going on a motor trip
with Ray. We will start from Sydney and drive right around Australia
and we plan to visit the southern, western, northern and eastern
points of the continent. Its a big country so this will take some
months. Along the way I am hoping to meet lots of the locals.
Our first stop was the town of Goulburn, to the south west of Sydney.
It was here that I came face to face with the Big Merino. Well, I had
always thought of myself as a pretty flash stud ram, with my gorgeous
blue horns. Certainly none of the pretty little ewes around Otterburn
had ever complained about my services. But here in Goulburn my
superiority complex took a bit of a shock.
The Big Merino is just HUGE. In fact he is the biggest sheep in the
world and I am sure this will give me bragging rights when all we
globetrotting sheep meet up back in Northumbria at the end of the
year.
Mind you, he doesn’t say much and he is not very nimble on his feet.
Actually, he is there to remind people that Australia was often said
to be “riding on the sheep’s back” because export of fine Merino wool
was the biggest foreign currency earner and the basis for the
prosperity of the country. And many of the best Merino stud rams were
bred in farms in the Goulburn district.
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