Warrawagine Cattle Co. (2013-2015)
Location: Warrawagine Station- East Pilbara, WA
Wallal Station- West Kimberley, WA
Facebook page: ThePilbaraLife
Warrawagine Cattle Co. is a family owned business made up of Warrawagine & Wallal Stations. Warrawagine Station is in the east Pilbara region of Western Australia with three generations calling it home.
Warrawagine homestead, 2013 wet season.
Warrawagine is approximately 140km north east of Marble Bar. The property is one million acres in size and boarders the Great Sandy Desert. We run approximately 23,000 head of droughmaster and droughmaster cross cattle for the live export and southern domestic markets.
While hosting Central Station I hope to give you a insight into our world, what we do and who we are. We employ up to 15 people during the mustering season and can have up to 30 people here at any one time, we get lots of visitors dropping in to get a look at what we do. During mustering we use 2 helicopters, a fixed wing plane, 7-10 motorbikes and 4 mustering buggies, we also camp out bush for 6 weeks mustering the outer reaches of the station.
Homestead yards
Bush yards
Crossing cattle
Wallal Downs is in the South Kimberley. The property runs from 80 Mile Beach to our neighboring Great Sandy Desert. Wallal is approximately 600,000 acres, with 8000 Brahmans roaming the coastal flats.
Robin and Lyle’s oldest son Geoffrey and wife Lynda with their daughter Jacinta manage and run Wallal.
Wallal homestead
80 Mile Beach
Keeping up with the pivots
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Robin Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. Every year that I blog for Central Station marks the milestone that more progress has been made at the Wallal Downs pivots. It’s not until this moment that you realise how much can change in one year. So here we go again […]
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Cyclone Stan
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written Robin Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. Living in north west WA, most people are accustomed to a cyclone or two every wet season, with some doing more damage than others. It has been almost seven years since Severe Tropical Cyclone Laurence. Laurence crossed the coast as a category 5 […]
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Wallal and around the world
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. My first year of university finished after two weeks of exams at the end of October last year and I flew home for the wet season, back to Walla Downs Station on the Kimberley coast. Bore runs, checking cattle, feeding out loose […]
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Wagga Wagga back to Wallal
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. With exams for botany, agricultural economics, professional skills in agriculture and horticulture and chemical fundamentals out of the way, the mid-year break arrived just in time. A four hour train ride, two plane flights, and a 250km drive and I was home […]
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Wallal to Wagga Wagga
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. This time last year my days were filled with checking our cattle, starting pumps, cleaning troughs, fixing fences, and studying part time via distance education (DE).The problem with doing any form of study via DE when you have a job that see’s […]
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Red dirt and a turquoise sea
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Katie – Station Hand, Wallal Downs Station. The first thing that hit me when I arrived at Wallal was how far from anything the station was! I realise now this is normal for station life but I did have to wonder at the time whether I was in the […]
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Big Red’s adventure
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Katie – Station Hand, Wallal Downs Station. Hi all! I’m Katie and I’m the girl Cinna (or as you may know her Jacinta) has been telling you about. Roughly a year and a half ago I was working an ordinary 9-5 office job in my hometown of Adelaide. Today I […]
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Warrawagine and Wallal are back!
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Jacinta Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. Hi to all you Central Station followers! It’s Jacinta here, and the last time I was talking to you I was busy introducing you all to life at Wallal Downs Station. Well . . . what a busy and eventful 12 months […]
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Myola is done and dusted! (photo blog)
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Caitlin – Station Hand, Warrawagine Cattle Company. Here are a few snaps from mustering at Myola, driving home that night, and a big bullock from the first muster! We had a big day of yard work out at Myola, over 800 head through the portable yards, quite a few interesting […]
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That Day
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 […]
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What’s happening at Wallal
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, […]
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Introducing Wallal Downs Station
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 […]
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The Big W’s
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 […]
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Welcome back to Warrawagine
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 […]
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The highlights of Warrawagine’s 2013 season
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. It is officially over, our 2013 season is done and dusted . . . and what a eventful year it has been. We were off to a flying start in April, and by June we had all the cattle done around the homestead. We […]
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Heading out bush
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Each year after the breeder cattle around the homestead have been mustered and processed we start to prepare to head out bush. This usually takes a few days, the step deck gets loaded with the portable race, crush, and loader, the ‘wild thing’ gets […]
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The fun times
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. During the mustering season we all work long hard days, when all the cattle work is done and the rain starts to fall we get to have a bit of fun. This movie was put together by Ben’s twin brother Alex who is a […]
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A ‘normal’ day at Warrawagine
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warrawagine Station. I don’t think there is any such thing as a normal day on a station. One day, your rip roaring through the wattle after a scrubber and the next day your knee deep in leaves cleaning the pool . . . gotta have some […]
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Meet the Warrawagine team
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Being late in the season we have eight people working with us, during peak muster we have up to 20 people working here, these roles range from a motor bike rider, buggie driver, helicopter and fixed wing pilots, preg tester/spey technician, mechanic, grader driver, […]
