Host: Yarrie Station Written by Martha Lindstad, Stationhand, Yarrie Station It had been one of those perfect days. We weren’t far out in September, and were getting closer to the end of mustering. As many times previously this year, a team of us were sent to our leased block, Coongan. Coongan had more rainfall than […]
Central Station has released 2 calendars to support the Royal Flying Doctors Service and the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association. As a thank you to our blog subscribers, we’re offering 25% off our calendars. Just use the code “thankyou25” at checkout to claim your savings! You can find the calendars in our shop by clicking here. […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Camilla Drema, Domestic Looking at the city landscape before me; a beautiful skyline with some teetering skyscrapers, I realised this place had become my home away from home in just 8 short months. And you didn’t just leave home before you were ready… Enter Anna Plains Cattle Station. When […]
Jane Sale is a station manager, business owner, wife, mother, and the brains behind the original concept for the Central Station website. From starting off with an undeveloped 850,000 acre block of land on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert with just 800 head of cattle, today Jane and her husband Haydn manage over […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by David Drexel, Stationhand You know is not going to be easy to be in the Pilbara for a mexican when he finds out that they call avocados an “avo” and after 3 months thinking that they were all speaking every day after lunch time about that “Avo”, he realizes that […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Tara Shiels, Stationhand Why did I move from the high altitudes and rolling mountains coated in rich green gums trees, icy waterfalls and the glistening sandstone cliffs of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales to red dirt plains further than the eye can see? With sandy river beds lined […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Kate Woodward, Stationhand. What’s a pharmacist doing on a cattle station in the East Pilbara? Well this year was about doing the things I’ve always wanted to do. With a family background in station management and livestock trade I was keen to experience station life for myself. After a bit of […]
Boyd Holden is a livestock handling and animal welfare consultant based on the Northern Rivers of NSW. His knowledge, skills and expertise in animal handling begins at the farm gate and extends all the way along the process to the point of slaughter. Boyd’s extensive experience includes the transport of livestock, saleyards, feedlots, quarantine depots, abattoirs and live […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Martha Lindstad, Stationhand, Yarrie Station “Go up north and find yourself some handsome young cowboy”, is a saying quite a few young girls hear when they decide to work on a station. Is it really that easy, finding someone and dating in the bush? When I first arrived at Yarrie […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Hannah Camp I was reminiscing with a friend recently and a topic of conversation was raised about childhood pets. When you think about pets most people think about the common types; dogs, cats or birds. Growing up on a cattle station in Northern Australia our childhood pets came in many […]
Written by Steph Coombes, Central Station editor I love this sunburnt country. Having lived all over Australia, as well as in Canada and the United States, and having had the privilege to travel to a dozen or so countries has only strengthened my love for Australia. However, while I love Australia – I do not […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Campion, Manager Lives and homes were under threat as Cyclone Kelvin was due to cross over the coast South of Broome somewhere!! As the warnings were being listened to on ABC radio and social media pages it was clear that our station which boundaries with Mandora Station to […]
Host: Umbearra Station Written by Myrella Corbet, Station Hand. It’s crazy how life can change so quickly. Sometimes so quickly that it doesn’t fully register initially. This was the case for me when my partner Ryan and I decided to make the big leap of moving from our home town of Gympie in Queensland to Umbearra […]
Host: Sherlock Station Written by Andrew Rose, Manager. It had been a long dry year and mustering season was wrapping up on Sherlock station. Surely it was time to have weekends off and take it a bit easy..? Not this year. With a poor season behind us, the cattle were starting to struggle and we […]
Introducing Market Updates brought to you by the team at Landmark Broome. In this short episode, Livestock Agent Todd Walsh gives a run down on what’s been happening in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia given the current dry conditions. **** To find the “Is the animal fit to load?” guide online, visit https://www.mla.com.au/ and […]
Host: Umbearra Station Written by Angus McKay, Owner. The Bluetooth speaker was pumping out the beats from one of the 6 or 7 smart phones scattered around the undercover work area. We were pregnancy testing a yard full of maiden heifers with a Repro Scan ultra sound preg testing unit. It was at that point […]
Host: Donal Sullivan I’ve put together some of my favourite photos from some of my favourite places across the NT and WA. Golden afternoons back at base. Watching Build-Up storms roll past in the evenings. Exploring the gorge with Munro. The Mary River floodplains in full swing. A secret little picnic spot. Just another beautiful […]
Host: De Grey Station Written by Mark Bettini, Owner – De Grey Station The next morning, I awoke to a flood! The Degrey river was about a meter below my house yard fence (not quite in the pool!) and flowing over its banks just downstream of the homestead. It was almost up to cyclone Rusty […]
Connie Wood, Assistant Manager of Blina Station in the West Kimberley, has written some of the most popular stories on the Central Station website. In this episode, she recalls the stories of how her husband Matt proposed, and what it was like planning a wedding with a station-manager-come-groomzilla. Connie also shares an insight into the […]
Host: De Grey Station Written by Mark Bettini, Owner – De Grey Station Throughout the dry summer I found myself spending a lot of time on my phone checking out websites looking for rain. When one website didn’t give me a good forecast I’d move to the next one. The long-range forecast was for March […]
