Host: Country Downs Station Written by Nikki Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Hi everyone and welcome back to Country Downs. About the same time last year we introduced ourselves to you all and gave you a bit of a run-down of what we do and why we do it. Well, a year later and […]
Host: Kalyeeda Station Written by Barb Camp – Station Hand, Kalyeeda Station. Situated in the tropical North of WA, the weather in the Kimberley is very different to my native Scotland. The Kimberley has only two seasons – the wet and the dry. To explain this in terms of the daily ABC weather report – there […]
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: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. One thing that has taken me a long time to get past is a fear of driving on dirt roads. I used to hate and I mean really hate driving on dirt roads to the point of pulling up half way sitting […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. My husband Jed can often be heard coining the phrase “living the dream” when talking about our life and work up here. I, on the other hand won’t repeat the phrase you’ll usually hear me use when describing our life! Yeah, yeah, yeah – it’s […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by: Jo Bloomfield – Owner, Hodgson River Station. The changes of the seasons over 12 months in North Australia is really quiet astounding! In this post I have tried to show a snapshot of our major environment changes through a single year. January, in particular February and March are generally our […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. February 2012 was the last water making or grass growing rain that we have received. Yes, there have been some falls of rain since then but none of them did much good, just enough to make a nice green pick grow and bring in a […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Good news! We didn’t burn out the neighbours, we only set the right plots alight and everybody had a good time! (Oh and we finished pasture sampling before we burnt!) With one dozer, one grader, two fire fighting units, six […]
