Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. After reading our story you may wonder why the heck do these people continue to do this, to stay in a place that often brings heartache, challenges your very soul, and quite regularly rips away at your emotional borders. Sunrise, April 2012. Why? Because it […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. As all school holidays revolve around some form of cattle work these holidays proved no different. The gyrocopter had been booked, the mustering team of humans, dogs, and horses had been spelled for a week and it was time to up and at ‘em again. […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. In my job, my dogs and horses are not only team members but are also part of our family and very much valued. I take good care of them and they take good care of me. A well-educated stockhorse and working dog are vital tools […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. April and May were the months we started de-stocking again. All heifers and steers that were saleable went onto the trucks to feedlots and to the Roma Saleyards. In amongst this were medical appointments, boarding school interviews, injured animals, and school holidays! Talk about squishing […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. There have been plenty of people and charity organisations helping out those of us who are drought stricken and in need of a little extra help, whether this be a bag of dog nuts, a fruit cake, or a few bales of hay. Buy-a-Bale organiser […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. By early March plans were well under way to bring all our agistment cattle home. It was getting too costly for us to have them away much longer and with the rain that had fallen in February, we had a good green pick growing, it […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Hello again! It has been eight months since I first hosted Central Station and after having read through what I wrote last year I find that some things have changed and some have not. Jack pulling out a bogged calf, whilst the mother watches on. […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Connie Gray – Manager, Blina. Over the 2014 wet season, my trusty old ride-on lawn mower spontaneously combusted . . . literally spontaneously combusted. She was a Greenfield and she looked about 100 years old . . . I swear this thing was the first ever ride on mower invented […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Connie Gray – Manager, Blina. Fitzroy Rodeo – Lead up and the Actual Event This year Matt took on the enormous task of President of the Fitzroy Valley Rodeo Club. Matt and the committee (myself included) had the gargantuan task of pulling together the first rodeo of the year for […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Sylvia Richards – Cook, Blina. Sylvie Richards. I was born in the summer of ’65, in the month of July. I travelled overseas from Europe to this great land in ’71 (I also sound a lot like the Highwaymen when I write). I grew up in the outer western suburbs […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Connie Gray – Manager, Blina. Written about Stuart Jones: Earthmover, Cattleman, Lover of Carlton Dry. Stuey Jones. Stuey Jones has been the grader driver and head of the earthmoving department at Blina for the past five years. He spends most of the year camped out on the road in his […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Connie Gray – Manager, Blina. Hello Again, Central Station!! I survived my first year at Blina!! Pats on the back for me. It wasn’t easy, but very well worth it. I look back on last year with pride. The crew all go home for the season in November, and we […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini – Owner, Lochon Contracting. When you live out bush you learn to recognise and appreciate the most simple and common amenities that you take for granted when you live in town. A hot shower, a cold drink, a room with four walls around it, and a door to shut etc, […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini – Owner, Lochon Contracting. Off to the desert it is. After a well deserved break over the last weekend, with most of our crew going to the annual Fitzroy Crossing Rodeo, the Lochon mob is heading back to Bulka Station to finish building the yard and holding paddock in the […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini – Owner, Lochon Contracting. If you have been following our blog last year, you might remember our beloved dog “Lady”. She had been with us for 14 years. Wherever we went, she went, too. While we were drafting cattle and a camel (!) at Wattle Springs yard on Bulka Station, […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini – Owner, Lochon Contracting. There is something about this place that makes people want to come back. The Kimberley is undoubtedly a very popular destination for tourists, due to it’s vastness, the unique boab trees, magnificent gorges, and simply stunning landscape. But what makes someone want to come back for […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini – Owner, Lochon Contracting. The stillness of the bush surrounds us. Everybody is fast asleep. Suddenly the subtle noise of twigs cracking, wood breaking, and finally the sound of the camp fire breaks the silence of the dark hours of the early morning. It’s time to get up. It’s time […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Aticia Grey – Manager, Glenforrie Brahmans. Catch up on part one here Lesson No 3. Handle livestock with parallel lines and understand the impact your feet and eyes have on the movement of livestock. Now this one is taking me quite a bit to get used to. We naturally want to […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Aticia Grey – Manager, Glenforrie Brahmans. Last year I wrote a piece for the Downunder Magazine about how I got started with my team of Kelpies by attending one of Neil McDonald’s Advanced Livestock and Working Dog Schools. Well, this year I was fortunate enough to attend another three, one of […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Ratty White esq. – Station Hand, Glenforrie Brahmans. After smoko the cows and calves were shifted to the laneway, ready to walk out past the six mile bore to a paddock called Susan’s where they were going to be living for now. We left the cows to start wandering their own […]
