Woolshed

It’s a casual (dog-friendly) place, with kayak hire for exploring oyster estuaries, big family tables on the deck, and a sharing menu filled with local produce from The Woolshed farm and South Coast Fish.

Merinos bleat in the yards, and the shearing machines buzz inside the woolshed as the crew gets to work.

Can a woolshed have legendary status?

She said the job required long hours, often leaving home at 5am to get to the woolshed by 7am.

The first houses were built near Woolshed Creek by William Yuille and Anderson (Sebastopol), while Yuille erected a hut at Black Swamp (Lake Wendouree) in 1838.

The situation turned violent with the striking shearers firing their rifles and pistols in the air and setting fire to the woolshed at Dagworth, killing dozens of sheep.