Host: Koordarrie Station
Managers/ Owners: Rory & Kristie de Pledge
Region: West Pilbara, WA
Nearest town for shopping, doctors etc: Onslow, WA
Nearest roadhouse: As above
Number of cattle: 4,000
Number of staff: It can fluctuate from 2 to 10 depending on the time of year
Size of station: Approx 320,000 acres
Average rainfall: 270 mm
How often and how the mail is delivered: Weekly via the mail truck from Carnarvon (4 hours away), delivered to highway drop off point 70 kilometres away or at neighbouring station 35 kilometres away.
How often and how the stores shopping is done: Every Monday and till Tuesday lunchtime when truck is loaded, via email and phone calls.
How far off the bitumen you are: 70 kilometres, very unreliable road to highway in even small rainfall event.
Koordarrie Station is a family owned and run property in the far west Pilbara of Western Australia.
The de Pledge family have been breathing new life into Koordarrie as a stand alone property, as the homestead had been abandoned and the station itself, run as part of the neighbouring station for the previous 30 years.
Rory and Kristie have strong roots in the soil of WA. With themselves being 3rd and 4th generation pastoralists, their 3 young children are being brought up in the same experience rich environment as they did.
Koordarrie runs approximately 4000 Droughtmaster cattle, for domestic and international beef consumption. They place emphasis on handling cattle in a low stress and quietly efficient manner. Horses are used extensively for mustering and weaner education. Breeding their own horses for work and pleasure is a joy they are just beginning.
The de Pledges look forward to sharing more of their activities on Koordarrie with you and giving you a small insight into life on a station.
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Episode 58. Danyelle Haigh – Don’t judge this book by its cover
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From brats to bovines
Written by Sarah Johnson It started off as a distant dream back when I was in high school. You know.. the good old year 10 subject “careers”, when it’s that dreaded time where you’re almost an adult and have to start making career choices. Everyone else was expressing that they wanted to become lawyers, engineers, […]
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Episode 57. Luke Hayes – Venturing off the pastoral pathway
Luke Hayes was born a 6th generation pastoralist on Deep Well Station in Central Australia. You’d be forgiven if you assumed that Luke was planning to continue in the same line of work as the previous 5 generations of his family – it just makes sense, right? However, that is not Luke’s story. As a […]
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Rain man
Written by James Christian There’s nothing more satisfying than having a property owner leave you in charge for a bit while they take off on holiday, and when they return you can honestly report that nothing is broken or lost, and that the livestock are healthy and fat, the dams are full and the grass […]
