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With 7000 sheep to round up and get to the holding paddock at the shearing shed, each day’s work is carefully planned.<\/p>\n

It’s a sequence that depends on the weather and experience. This day there was a thunderstorm and heavy clouds in the area but not much chance of rain.<\/p>\n

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Despite the terrain and the heat the well being of the sheep is a priority. Those too young or too old to make the journey end up riding in the back of a ute.<\/p>\n

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Jack’s Camp is on the picturesque eastern side of the property and the five hundred or so sheep in the holding yards will be moved a few kilometres to another paddock closer to the shearing shed. And from there to another, until they reach their destination about 35 kilometres away.<\/p>\n

I knew the sheep would be heading down this creek with the early morning light flooding through the river gums. I thought it might make a good photograph. I wasn’t disappointed. The scene could have been right out of a Tom Roberts painting.<\/p>\n

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Because of the cloud, the temperature was a little down, but even so it was still around 40 degrees and the sheep tended to move at their own pace with a little encouragement from the stockmen for the stragglers lagging behind.<\/p>\n

This day it is a family affair. Cousins Lindsay Mengersen from Wooltana Station, Troy Fels from Motpena and son-in-law Luke Ridsdale from Leigh Creek are on the drive with Geoff. The four are mostly spread out over a wide area communicating by UHF radios. <\/p>\n

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There’s 11 main paddocks on Depot Springs and eight sets of drafting yards, several of which are using during the muster.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, anybody unfamiliar with this rocky country would think that bringing thousands of sheep to shearing would be an impossibility, especially with just five men and their motorbikes.<\/p>\n

Yet it has been done this way every year for decades either with bikes or horses.<\/p>\n

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