Reader Ellen also asks:
Cowboy, do you really sleep in a swag?
Cowboy says: I have slept in a swag, I own a swag -Â one of my first jobs when I was working in Moree was droving sheep on the road and it involved camping out.
I enjoyed it.
Because you were camping out you had to let the sheep out in the morning and in at night and keep an eye on them during the day – camping out was good fun. There were Sub-artesian bores on the stock route, where water that flows under the ground really deep comes out of the ground hot – so we would camp next to these and we’d jump in there and have a bath!
We’d park the Landcruiser next to the tank so we could climb in!
Haven’t slept in the swag much lately, but I do own one and enjoy camping out.
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I would like to ask Cowboy how he feels about being called Cowboy when he in fact a Sheepman?
ahhhh could totally blow his cover with this question…..!
what in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks is a swag? I love to camp, but never heard of a swag.
ah it must be an Aussie thing Adela, will explain for you in detail… standby
The Cowboys and the FARMERS should be friends….
what do you mean?