Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Company. It’s the wet season, the days are hot and thunderstorms are rolling in nearly every afternoon with the smell of rain on the wind. The mustering season is over, most of the crew have gone home for a well deserved break with Christmas […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Company. The breakfast table here in the kitchen at Wallal is quiet this time of year. This morning it’s just the 3 of us; Mum (Lynda), Dad (Geoff), and I. Lynda, Jacinta, and Geoff. Whilst Geoff and I eat our breakfast and chat away, […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Company Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Company. Before I take you on an adventure around Wallal Downs Station I want to take the opportunity to introduce you to the people that make this place work – our staff! Cattle grazing at dusk. Geoff and Lynda are the managers here at […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Caitlin – Station Hand, and Jacinta Mills – Owner, both Warrawagine Cattle Company. Hello my name is Caitlin and I work at Warrawagine station as a jillaroo. I grew up in Northam as a town kid and after finishing high school I decided I wanted to move as far away […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Robin Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Company. G’day from everyone here at Warrawagine Cattle Co. This year I have joined forces with Jacinta over at Wallal and together we hope to share with you all of the exciting things that have been going on at Wallal and Warrawagine. A section […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Keith – Cook, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Keith, the Kilto Station Cook. What a challenging work experience, you step in as a station cook at Kilto Station which is part of the large Yeeda Pastoral Co’s group of cattle stations spread out from Broome in the North West Kimberley to Springvale […]
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: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Emma – Station Hand, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Born and bred in the Snowy Mountain Region of New South Wales, I have always been partial to mountains. Living and working in the Canadian Rockies, growing up in the foothills of the Snowy’s and riding on horseback through some of the most […]
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: Yeeda Pastoral Written by Kim – Marketing/Development, Yeeda Pastoral Company. Well it’s been a crazy eight months since Yeeda hosted our first week on Central Station and I can’t believe how quickly that time has passed! My name is Kim and I work in the Yeeda office in Broome. We are really excited to […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Chris Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. Someone said to me today they just had the worst day of their life! “That’s a big call I answered”, thinking the worst. After I inquired further it was quickly downgraded to “well maybe not the worst day but pretty bloody bad!” About eight hours […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. Working with animals on a daily basis in a harsh and remote environment like the Kimberley, can be all the more pleasurable with a few extra skills and training. Life can often be unpredictable when working with our four-legged friends, but the stress and effort […]
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: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. Sunset storms over Myroodah Station. The sand-hills and spinifex are not for everyone. The Great Sandy Desert to our south ensures this landscape dominates much of Myroodah Station. But for one faithful employee, Kim Cuffe, it is just like home! Western Queensland’s channel country where sand-hills […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. The game of Polo, the Sport of Kings, you don’t expect to see Being played by two Indigenous Stockmen, in the Kimberley But as luck would have it, for two of our blokes that particular chance came round To spend three months with world class players, […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah. Myroodah Station staff Ian Long, Corin Greenwood, and Byran Malay. Welcome back and Hello to the readers of Central Station and the week of stories from “Myroodah”. You can go back through this site and read our previous blogs from 2013 and also read our […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. Working on a property, it is so easy to get caught up in the daily activities and not look beyond the boundary fence. Don’t mistake my passion for life in the bush one second, I just believe in taking outside opportunities and gaining as many […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail’ At ‘Mystery Park’, measuring the volume of pasture we have produced during the wet season allows us to evaluate the number of stock we can safely run through until we anticipate the next wet season beginning. […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. At ‘Mystery Park’, our weaning date depends on body condition score of the lactating cows, which is affected by the available nutrition and the cost of supplementing. Leave the calves on too long and the cow loses too much condition to re-conceive next year. Wean […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. At ‘Mystery Park’, the primary focus of our business is growing grass – producing the best possible pastures we can using the elements of rain, sunshine, and soil. Around ten years ago we began time-controlled rotational grazing, reaping the rewards of increasing our carrying capacity, […]
