Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jordon Sullivan – Stationhand, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Ever since I was a young boy my dream was to work on a cattle station, from visiting both sets of my grandparents in the holidays to living and working on a small farm my parents had purchased near Tenterfield. My great […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. “Ah, you gave me a panic attack” . . . sounds pretty harmless – you got a bit of a fright. If only that were true. For anyone who has suffered from one or more panic attacks you will know that it […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. The 2016/2017 wet season has been the best we have seen since we have been living in the Kimberley. This will be our 10th year and we have been blessed with an amazing wet season that has broken many local rainfall records. […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Founder and Managing Director, Yougawalla Pastoral Company (Husband of this week’s host, Jane Sale). “Mentor” is I believe a much over used word in today’s vernacular. There are mentoring programs for just about anything you can think of. The real meaning of mentor in my book […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Yulia Meally – Cook/Caretaker, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Meally family of Bulka Station – Yulia, Gary, and young Seamus. Hi everyone, my name is Yulia, I have written a few years ago on Central Station about my transition from living in a huge city in Surabaya, Indonesia, to moving to […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Angus Campbell – Pilot, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Learning to fly a helicopter has been one of the most mentally challenging things that I have ever done. I have always wanted to fly ever since I was a young fella watching the super planes flying at treetop height over home. […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. I have found that living on a station remotely with different logistical pressures means you have to be flexible and prepared for plans to change. My dad, when he spends time here, says, “Forget about Plan B, on station it is more […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Your cattle management starts and ends with your people management. Like any small business every person makes a difference and the leader must set an example. Unless you are planning on doing your cattle handling on your own, what you do and […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. My sister moved to Dubai from London two years ago. You would gather from this that we are very different in our life choices, as well as many other things and have been since we grew up together. This however does not […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. You all met Lauren last year – she was Gus and Tilly’s home tutor and worked for us for six months which is all her second year visa would allow. You didn’t however, meet the side to Lauren that we now know, […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. You have heard a few stories over the last couple of years on Central Station about people that have gone from city life to station and how much things have changed for them. But what about going back to that city life […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Haydn Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Doodie and his two great loves, Selena and the pastoral map of his country. Life in outback Australia can be very hard. Until you have experienced the depths of these hardships, isolation, droughts, unrelenting extreme heat, loneliness, it is hard to explain how […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Yougawalla crew Facebook thread #2. One of the situations relayed to me was . . . when a bore broke down that was providing water to four dams which supplied around 1200 head of cattle. Haydn and a small crew set about […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. The basics out here are the luxuries because too often we have been without them. A house pump breaks or the solar electricity generator hasn’t got enough stored in the batteries to power the homestead and all of a sudden you are […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. The Sale family are ready for take off. It’s 2015 and Central Station is coming to you for its third year. Thanks to you, we have a huge following and interest in what the people of the Northern Beef Industry are up […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Eve Graham – Backpacker, Yougawalla Station. Well I’ve swapped my Comme des Garcons shirts for R.M. Williams ones, despite mocking the self proclaimed ‘bush outfitter’s attire as an outback-newbie. After completing an arts degree and working in an office-based graduate role for a luxury fashion retailer, I came to Australia […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Station. How do you know when to take the right risk? In some cases you don’t have a choice. Others, you have to ask what the worst that can happen is. When the risk pays off you feel amazing, and when it doesn’t, well we […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Andrea – Station Hand, Yougawalla Station. “So what are you doing after graduation?” “Um . . . err . . . I think I might go chase some cows.” He looks at me in disbelief; I can see his brain ticking over. This girl has just spent four years at […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Station. “The story of how a city boy ended up in the outback” When most young boys are growing up they want to be a fireman, policeman, builder or astronaut, not me, since I was six years old I wanted to be an accountant. Rest […]
Host: Yougawalla Station Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Station. ‘This is the life’, I thought as I walked onto the tarmac at Broome airport heading to my ‘private’ plane with pilot and good friend Haydn Sale from Yougawalla Station. I was thrilled to discover I would be collected from Broome after initially thinking […]
