Paddock and Cottage 9 dry country

dry country

coated in years of dust

Dust-covered shelves hold forgotten tools and spare parts inside a storeroom at Halvorsen's Boat Yard

catching the light from a high window above

Paddock and Cottage 9 dry countryA weatherboard homestead with Gothic Revival bargeboards sits behind a low timber fence, a separate outbuilding and chimney to its right, tall trees rising behind under an overcast sky. The buildings are part of Mill Pond Farm at Jembaicumbene, a pastoral estate established in the 1830s by Roberts and Badgery on the Southern Tablelands. The broad green paddock in the foreground was wheat country from the 1840s through to 1885. Part of the Mill Pond