We spent the day tooling around the area. In the morning we went to the “Agrodome” Sheep Show. They trotted out all the different kinds of sheep, sheared a sheep for us and did a sheep dog demonstration. The shearer was very entertaining, getting all of the nationalities in the audience involved. There weren’t many of us from the USA but we cheered as loud as we could. You should have heard those Australians shouting, “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy, Oy, Oy!” and the Taiwanese screaming with their hands in the air. The sight of the sheepdogs running on the backs of the sheep and then laying on top of them was worth the price of admission. We took too many pictures so we missed the dog herding the sheep - it must have been very short.
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