After a couple of weeks working the small paddocks of the Racecourse GA, this feels like complete freedom. The sheep could be anywhere, but I did spot them coming down the front hill as I left for a day in Hobart yesterday. (The high point of my Hobart trip was having lunch with my good friend Ani (aka close_knit) and catching up on several months' news.) Anyway, it's a wild guess where the flock will be, and I'll work with whatever I find. I'd like to get them into one end or the other of the Highway Reserve, just for something different and diverse. We'll see! Hopefully, I can get Instagram to do a more consistent job of posting videos. In the new version, you are allowed to record longer than 15 sec, but the catch seems to be you can't always get them to post! This real-time social media stuff can be a bit challenging ;-) END OF THE DAY NOTES: The flock was at the far southern end of the Grazing Area, about as far as it's possible to get from my house, so it was a long walk out. I let the dogs gather them the last few hundred metres, so I didn't have to walk all the way (V1). We brought them into the Highway Reserve via the southern gate (V2), and had an excellent graze up the Reserve. Two water hazards were negotiated without dramas (P2,P3,V3,V4), and there was lots of browsing and grazing in the native forage bits(P4,P5). The weather was nicer than expected--the breeze was cold, but once we were in the Reserve, having our tails to the wind made it much warmer. There is certainly some new growth, but still too many bare patches for comfort. I think it will take several seasons to come back to the kind of wild abundance of foliage I'd really like to see. Still, all in all, a most satisfactory circuit.
Video V1 above.
Video V2 above.
Video V3 above.
Video V4 above.