Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Moving out of the Homestead. For those of you that don’t know what stock camp is it is where everyone packs up and moves to a distant part of the homestead and set up camp, allowing the mustering team to muster distant […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by Kate Paull – Owner, Noreena Downs Station. Living on a cattle station isn’t all hard work and no play so when the opportunity arises for a few days off work and a party everyone jumps at the chance whether it’s a local rodeo, horse racing, pre/post muster party, or […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by – Jenny Jones, Camp Cook, Noreena Downs Station. Arriving at Noreena I was welcomed by Tex, Niffy, Joe, and the dog gang Major, Ding, and Bruce, and shown to my new digs. For those that don’t know what a donga is, it’s best described as a long tin can […]
Host: Noreena Downs Station Written by – Jenny Jones, Camp Cook, Noreena Downs Station. Jenny Jones from Wheaton Aston in Stafford in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom will be telling her Australian station experience today, Jenny worked at Noreena as a station camp cook. So over to Jenny now. – K.P. As like […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Kim – Station Hand, Yeeda Pastoral Company. My name is Kim and I am 21 and from Germany. I started working out at Springvale last year in March. I got the job from Gumtree and had never worked on a station before. It is so different for a backpacker to […]
Host: Springvale Station (Yeeda Pastoral Co.) Written by Aelwynn – Cook, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Back home in Canada if you ask people whether they know what mustering is, most people will raise their eyebrows and not know how to answer. I was the same about a year and a half ago, before I was hired at […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. I come from a place so small it can fit into Myroodah 9.30+ times. I’m not talking about my hometown or even my entire parish. I’m referring to my country in its entirety, so imagine my endless fascination with all the space I have to explore! […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Eve Graham – Backpacker, Yougawalla Station. Well I’ve swapped my Comme des Garcons shirts for R.M. Williams ones, despite mocking the self proclaimed ‘bush outfitter’s attire as an outback-newbie. After completing an arts degree and working in an office-based graduate role for a luxury fashion retailer, I came to Australia […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Owner, Anna Plains Station. A few years ago I packed my backpack and left home for what I thought was a gap year between high school and University. Home was in the United Kingdom and I was on a journey that would change my whole life but I […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Owner, Anna Plains Station. My adventure began 16,000 kilometres away from Australia. Somewhere over there on the other side of the world is a small town named Veen, which I call home. It is near Düsseldorf in Germany. After I finished my studies back home in Germany, I […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by: Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Company. “Penis.” Five year-old Tilly turned and recited her new vocabulary to me. Golden curls skirted her face and her little eyes peered up at me, waiting for feedback as to how she was doing. “That’s good, Tilly,” I replied, a little thrown off by the […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Mary – Governess/Au Pair, Country Downs Station. Today I am heading into to town to do a ‘stores run’ and a general run around . . . you know, the Post Office, various local businesses to pick up parts for our broken, run-down or just plain neglected machinery/equipment, the […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Angharad Preece – Tutor, Kalyeeda Station. Some of the Kalyeeda Crew. As I wait in Broome for a boy I barely know to take me nearly 400km out of town and into the Outback, I’m pretty nervous. Okay, so I know that James Camp is a lovely guy, I’m going to […]
Host: Yarrie Station Hey I’m Jess, and I am originally from a sheep and grain farm two and a half hours south east of Perth in a small town called Darkan. Working on a cattle station had always been always been a dream of mine. When I finally decided to bite the bullet and ditch […]
Host: Yarrie Station So let’s cut to the chase – I’m a ‘Pom’ and two years ago I left my mundane job back where the sun certainly doesn’t shine and came over to Oz as the typical ‘backpacker’. I was seeking the original sun and fun fuelled working holiday with the intention of doing a […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Katy – Nanny, Myroodah Station. Little Sam & I on the banks of the Fitzroy River – not a bad backyard! Hello all! My name is Katy and I am the Nanny. I am a backpacker from Scotland and I am spending a short time here, to help out Pam […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Plan A is out the window! Haydn’s chopper has a problem with the rotor blade and he can’t fly it, so mustering at Wattle Springs has been cancelled. This and the fact that some wet weather looks like it is on the […]
