Travelog post for: Ashley

Last stop on our road trip was at Berrima, a Georgian era villiage about an hour south of Sydney.

Here I met a swagman hanging out outside the Lolly Shop.

Ashley's Road Trip by becka_kate, on Flickr

A swagman was an unemployed man who travelled the rural areas of Australia on foot from farm to farm looking for work during the Depressions of the 1890's and 1930's with their few possessions rolled up and carried in their swag (bedroll).