Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink A small compilation of photos I have taken around Callanna Station of various things. How about a cliché to start your day? Wrangler butts drive me nuts?! Good morning! Starting the motor to pump water for cattle. Checking in with my 2 poddies Browny & Bella. They are […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink Note, these photos have been taken at different times of the year on different places. Sunrise mustering at Mulka Station after storms. Drone shot of mustering at Callanna Station. (Photo by Pandy Morphett from Pandy Films.) Smoko Mustering at Callanna. (Photo by Pandy Morphett from Pandy Films.) Sorting out the […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink I’ve only been contract mustering and yard building (in the off seasons) for the last 3 years, coming into my 4th. Through those years, at least 95% of the time it’s just been me and a bunch of blokes. Coming into my first season I was nervous, this […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink I grew up on a sheep and cropping farm in Central West NSW. As long as I can remember I grew up working side by side with parents and my brothers. There are memories of Dad and I feeding ewes the very last of the lupins for that […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh I am going to take this opportunity to bother you all about the serious nature of skin cancer. I am a fair skinned, freckle faced, red headed individual who wears jeans, long sleeves, bandanas and sunscreen quite religiously. I have always been warned to have skin checks to […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh As a small business owner, we employ between 8 to 12 people at one time depending on our work requirements and commitments. Personally, I find employment is a very time consuming task. Between creating an advertisement, answering questions via facebook, email and phone, interviewing applicants, performing reference checks […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh Another year for us done and dusted. Much like everyone else’s it involved lots of hard work and good fun. Here is a glimpse of our contract mustering lifestyle last year: It all started with our yearly recruitment process, locating a combination of enthusiastic men and women ready […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh I often hear people ask ‘how do you live in such isolation?’ in regards to the location of our outback homes. Stations are located hundreds of Kilometres from towns, roadhouses or neighbours, with roads which are often closed due to poor weather conditions – the same conditions which […]
Host: Kilcowera Station Written by Toni Sherwin, Station Owner Kilcowera is a working cattle station that offers accommodation, camping and guided tours. Way back in 2001 we opened up Kilcowera to paying guests, since then we have had thousands of them through the gates. It was a fairly easy decision to make as we had […]
Host: Kilcowera Station Written by Toni Sherwin, Station Owner Kilcowera is a working cattle station that offers accommodation, camping and guided tours. I have been trying to recollect some of the strange items of interest that I have seen since I have lived in the bush, here at Kilcowera. Here are a few of them… […]
Host: Kilcowera Station Written by Toni Sherwin, Station Owner Kilcowera is a working cattle station that offers accommodation, camping and guided tours. Now this is a job that not too many people ever really give a second thought to. But never the less it is a never ending job and crucial to the safe operation […]
Host: Kilcowera Station Written by Toni Sherwin, Station Owner Kilcowera is a working cattle station that offers accommodation, camping and guided tours. I guess city people never give a thought as to how we get rid of our rubbish? The ways are many and varied. And you know something that really annoys me? Some mail days […]
Host: Kilcowera Station Written by Toni Sherwin, Station Owner Kilcowera is a working cattle station that offers accommodation, camping and guided tours. Hi! I’m Toni, one half of the Sherwin partnership. I’m the one who does all the writing, banking, officey things and knows how to fix the computer, printer or internet when something goes […]
Host: Donal Sullivan I tried for several days to write about how my family manages our properties until I realised that the best way to explain would be to show you, rather than tell you. So following are some of my own photos of our station life and cattle management, as well as some photos […]
Host: Donal Sullivan If you missed my post yesterday, you’ll read below some of my observations on characters you commonly find on cattle stations, inspired by Sir David Attenborough. These are written entirely as a joke, and anything that sounds illegal is definitely not based on a real person or real events. ‘The Chopper Pilot’ […]
Host: Donal Sullivan I have had many opportunities to observe station life over the years I’ve spent living and working on the land. As an avid documentary watcher, I’ve often wondered what one of the greatest naturalists of all time, Sir David Attenborough, would think of our lives and the characters that work on cattle […]
Host: Donal Sullivan Cooking for a stockcamp for a season (between March and November) taught me a lot about myself, the people I worked with and life in general. I also learnt a bit about cooking, like how to salvage burnt scones, and how to cook good rib-bones! My kitchen was open to the elements, […]
Host: Donal Sullivan Good Morning/Evening to you, Central Station reader. I’m Donal Sullivan, from Cave Creek Station in the NT but if you have Instagram you may have come across me sharing images of station life under the guise of ‘tinycruiser’. If you don’t have Instagram then I feel I should tell you I’m a […]
Last week the WA government announced a decision to have all 5 Schools of the Air remain open. This has been a huge win for rural and regional families across the state. The following was written before the government announced the reversal on their decision to close all 5 schools at the end of 2018. […]
Last week the WA government announced a decision to have all 5 Schools of the Air remain open. This has been a huge win for rural and regional families across the state. The following was written before the government announced the reversal on their decision to close all 5 schools at the end of 2018. […]
