Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Categories: Culture & History, Sightseeing
Take a day trip from Sydney to Tobruk Sheep Station for a real Australian Outback experience. This is a day packed with unique ‘Aussie’ experiences. You’ll learn how to make traditional damper and billy tea over the campfire, watch stockmen on horseback mustering their sheep, take part in a sheep-shearing demonstration, and learn how to crack a whip and throw a boomerang. The day is completed with an authentic Aussie BBQ lunch.
Leaving Sydney, you’ll travel over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and along the Great Northern Road, a stretch of road built by the convicts back in the early days of Australian settlement. En route to Tobruk Sheep Station, located only 70 minutes from the center of Sydney, you’ll view some of the most beautiful rural landscapes that Australia has to offer.
Tobruk Sheep Station is one of Sydney’s most stunning rural properties. On arrival at Tobruk, you’ll be greeted by Australian stockmen on horseback. Relax at the Drovers Camp and learn how to make traditional ‘stockman’s tucker’: billy tea and damper. Damper is bread made in the stockman’s fire; to make billy tea, the pot is swung around at arm’s length so the tea leaves settle on the bottom prior to drinking.
Enjoy your morning tea of freshly made damper with butter and golden syrup as you learn about the history of Tobruk and the life of a stockman.
Watch an amazing ‘Stockman’s Roundup’ demonstration. This is a rare opportunity to see the riding ability of the stockman in action, and to appreciate the understanding and partnership he has with his sheepdog. Herding in excess of 50 sheep, the stockman will drive the sheep from the open field into the small paddock area.
While watching Tobruk’s unique sheep-shearing demonstration, some of the audience will have the opportunity to join in and give it a try themselves. With the shearer to guide you, you will learn the history of sheep shearing and gain a better understanding of how wool is derived from the coat of a sheep.
For lunch, this Outback Experience offers a world-famous Aussie BBQ. With a vast range of different dishes to choose from, from succulent T-Bone steaks to spicy sausages, you’ll wish you left room after your damper and billy tea.
After lunch, try your hand at boomerang throwing and whip cracking.
As you return to Sydney, take in the views over the Hawkesbury River valley and the Blue Mountains.
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