FLASHBACK: Wool in Hay & Port Adelaide

I can't exactly remember when, but we were in Hay & Port Adelaide sometime in 2010 and both locations relate to wool, so I thought I would combine them in one post.






I pretended to be a sheep cutter in the museum in Hay, this was only after witnessing the speed of a master who demonstrated on a live sheep. Don't worry, the sheep weren't really hurt during the demonstration. It was pretty amazing to watch him turning the sheep over wearing moccasins.






Wool was stored in bails and then shipped to various ports, including Port Adelaide. The bailing equipment was really varied from the crate that had a sack inside to complicated machines that helped pack lots of wool.






We saw this wool bailing mechanism inside a wool storage building in Port Adelaide that today was more a U Store It kind of place. Beautiful architecture, and absolutely huge, lots of place for storage (in the past and currently).





Finally, I noticed in Port Adelaide these two train signs right by the train tracks that were facing each other. Talk about a crash just waiting to happen. Next post will be about us caving in SA about 4 hr drive from Adelaide. Wicked cool pics!