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Rural experiences

Experience the way we live!

Hay is a rural town set on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, and developed around a large agricultural industry. Access to irrigation has opened up new opportunities for traditional graziers whose main farming practice was wool. These days, the agricultural landscape includes rice, lettuce, cereal crops, irrigated vegetables, grapes and cotton.

Hay services a large pastoral area so you'll find the main street buzzing with activity, especially on the day of a sheep sale or special event, when the district converges on the town for supplies and to catch up with business.

Farm tours can be arranged, these include pastoral property visits, irrigated vegetables, row cropping enterprises, district homesteads and gardens, and also seasonal tours for kangaroos and emus in the paddocks, wedge-tail eagle nests and more.

For more information or to arrange your personal tour contact:
Hay Visitor Information Centre
Circle H Tours - (02) 6993 2161

 

Acknowledgements
Make Hay shine. "A modest splat" and "surprisingly likable"
American travel writer Bill Bryson on Hay, from his 2001 best-seller Down Under
© Hay Tourism & Development Inc. 2004