Sixteen-year-old Paris Whibley has made the 1,200-kilometre round trip from her family's farm near Moree in northern New South Wales to Sydney three times during her school holidays to compete at the Royal Easter Show.
The keen showgoer has a range of talents including cattle parading, judging fruit, vegetables and grain, and she's also a gun when it comes to whip cracking.
It was the first time Paris had competed at the Sydney Royal Easter Show in the School Cattle Paraders' Competition.
"I did all right, it was just good to make the state finals as it's very intense to be selected for such a big competition," she said.
Ms Whibley was also part of the Young Judges Competition where she cast her eye over the array of fruit, vegetable and grain exhibits.
"They were really good quality for drought conditions," she said.
"It was a tough competition also, but it was a lot of fun."
She rounded out here time at the show competing in the Australian Whip Cracking Championships.
Whip cracking a family affair
Paris competed at Sydney with her younger siblings Sophia 13, George, 12 and Ed, seven, and their mother Lisa.
Her 17-year-old brother came along as part of the support crew, alongside their father who was the photographer.
Paris and her family decided to give whip cracking a go after seeing it performed at their local Moree Show.
"It takes a lot of hours of practice, a lot of hours outside just cracking and learning different tricks and routines," she said.
In the lead-up to a competition she practices for one to two hours a day.
The family of whip crackers now travels to South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and across NSW to compete.
"I like meeting lots of different people and I've got a lot of friends that I only get to see when we whip crack as they are from all over the country," she said.
"We also get to see lot of different parts of Australia while we are having fun."
Friendly family rivalry
With so many people cracking whips in the one household it can get rowdy.
"It's very noisy, it's noisy enough with seven people in the house, let alone with whips going as well," Paris said.
While there's not too much rivalry between the supportive siblings, Paris said little brother Ed was the one to watch.
"It's tough to say who the best whip cracker in the family is, but my seven-year-old brother is pretty good, he is going to really good when he gets a bit older and a bit stronger," she said.
After clocking up some serious frequent flyer miles between Moree and Sydney, which involved a flight and plenty of hours in the car, she said she would be back for the show next year.
