Wolumla Dairy bay window a stockmen's hut sits in

a stockmen's hut sits in the high country of the Snowy Mountains

while rectangular window openings cut hard daylight across the floor

and United States Navy vessels from 1897 until 1999

its rusted corrugated iron roof edged by a dead tree leaning against the wall

Wolumla Dairy bay window a stockmen's hut sits inTimber walls stripped back by decades of coastal weather, paint peeling in long curls from boards split and silvered by exposure. The Wolumla Dairy is a farm scale vernacular building of the kind that once stood on every dairy property across the Bega Valley, a cream room where whole milk was separated before the cans went out to the cooperative. Part of The Dairy series.