Jenny's Farm

Jenny, a nurse I was working with during my placement in Waikerie, a little Australian country town ( and apparently it claims to be the citrus centre of SA) invited us to her farm. Her farm was 5000 acres!!!!
It was HUUUUGE!!!!
And she had horses and stuff.. so of course we were hyped about going!
Nah, that's not her farm
Our impressions ( and hopes) about what her farm
looked like was, you know, green rolling fields and
winding roads with quaint cottages- like the picture
above, see?

And cows chewing and mooing contentedly on
green pastures..
Like something out of a Anlene ad i suppose

I don't know about the others but
I even had milkmaids in my imaginary farms...

Well, this is how her farm really looked like.

Apparently, it was a drylands farm. Meaning in Australia, because of the frequent droughts and water restrictions, the farm was basically like a huge sandy, dry and dusty stretch of land.

I have to say i was a teensy weensy bit disappointed at first

But then I had a look around and it was really quite nice....

This is Jenny's farmhouse. It'd been around for 100 years or so and it was absoultely gorgeous.

There was the whole antique looking furniture and walls and even a real fireplace!

Gorgeous.

I met Solomon the spoilt cat.

And the highlight of the day:

Feeding the horses! There was Mandy and Tristan and Bridget

Here we're still feeding.. This is Jenny's stallion and his mare.

Jenny's horses were breeding horses, so other breeders would

lend her their horses to breed with her horses and that way created

more purebred offspring.

Pearl and I were pretty fascinated by the huge tyres these tractors had

When jenny was driving us through her paddock these horses

came clomping out to meet her, and her car

Then Jenny took us for a ride through her crops

Even better, she let us hang on to the back of her truck!!

Here we are having the best time of our lives hanging off the back of

her truck with the wind in our hair and the sun on our backs

And this is me, still hanging off the truck, having the best time of my life