Farmer looks for love
MARK Dowling has been entertaining South Gippsland with his creative silage bales for the past eight years.
He has turned a practical joke into a hobby, leaving messages on silage bales on his Strzelecki Highway property between Leongatha and Mirboo North at Berrys Creek.
The current message reads, “This farmer is still looking for his wife and his pig and his cow, can you find it?”
Mr Dowling hopes the message will help him find a wife.
“It is a fun way of putting it out there that I am on the lookout,” he said.
“I have had a few people stop by and enquire.”
Further up the road, travellers will spot Mr Dowling’s ‘pig’, a silage bale wrapped in pink wrap with a painted snout.
Observant passers-by will also see a spotty cow on the roadside.
Mr Dowling said he started writing messages on silage bales in 2008 as a joke and has since turned the banter into a tradition.
“My family all went up to Thailand for my sister’s wedding in 2008 so I wrote ‘Thailand ‘08’ on the bales. People thought it was a bit of fun so I have done it every year since,” Mr Dowling said.
“I already have next year’s message planned out, but it is a surprise.”
Passing pig: Mark Dowling and the pig made from silage bales on his property by the Strzelecki Highway at Berrys Creek have been keeping travellers entertained this season.
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