Live life less predictably
Day to day life on a working station or Outback ranch is everchanging. The locals out here revel in the cycle of the seasons as they go about their business nurturing animals and crops. The connection to the beautiful but untameable land is undeniable and often unforseeable. We welcome you to share in a life less predictable for awhile.
Whilst you read this, out there in the Aussie bush all sorts of events are unfolding. There's action aplenty but you're unlikely to see it on the television. There's daily challenges against the elements. Challenges that build character in people in a sometimes hot, harsh world but there's no air conditioned office. There's golden sunsets and sunrises as well but you won't catch even a glimpse of something so magnificent in some trendy nightclub. Don't get us wrong mate we love to have a good time too – we just reckon there's nothing that can beat the good times and adventures that go on our here and its not always easy to put them into words either.
As you read this there are stock being mustered as the stockhorse nostrils flare, lambs weaned, sheep yarded ready for shearing, roustabouts drenching a mob, working dogs cooling off in a water trough, stockmen riding the boundary fence repairing fences, young stock horses being broken in and educated, pody lambs and calves being bottle fed, a cowboy just got bucked off a bull, cattle are being driven to water, a combine harvester is cropping a field the size of a small European country, a billy is boiling in a stockcamp, a foal born and a wedgetail eagle swoops by. There's the sound of cattle bellowing, a calf got tagged, it rained for a change and sent a gullyraker down the creek. Next we'll have to fix the bloomin' flood block, always something to do. A mob of kangaroos is eating out the top paddock, the hydrolics on the tractor have gone again, the skys full of smoke because they're back buring in the forest to stop bushfires, there's Bundaberg Rum and cola going down at a Bachelor and Spinsters or B&S Ball and the favourite just came home second at the country picnic races whilst galas were hanging upside down on a wire looking on. Stockman are yarding sheep to check sheep for flystrike whilst his offsider zips about on a dirt bike over broken ground checking for stragglers. The steers are fat and ready for export. They're being loaded on the truck. Its called a road train and carries 1000s of beasts at once. It rained last night and one farmer checked his rain gauge and got an inch but his next door neighbour got nothing. Then again they do live 50km apart. Brumbies or wild horses are roaming free in the ranges, snow is falling then melting as it hits the deck on the higher peaks. Two farmers have pulled up in the middle of the road to have a yarn. Its all bulldust but there's lots of loud laughter echoing off a nearby hillside but nobodys round to hear...
Like the sound of being part of any of that? We call it “work in progress” mate. Its a sample of what's really going on out here and we provide you with the leg up and support to get you into it.
Everyday we'll suprise you with something new. We'll make sure that the standard activities happen and then throw you head long into day to day experiences. We'll chop and change quite a bit too and you can let us know if the pace is too hot so don't be worried if you just want to kick back it up to you.
And no worries if thats not for you then you'd probably be better to try a tourist or trail ride farm instead. There's plenty of them about.
But if you're the enterprising type and really want to open yourself up to true Aussie bush culture and whatever comes by living life less predictably then here it is.
This is work in progress – the adventure you've been looking for.
