Scott Bridle is a world class aerial photographer and chopper musterer and at one stage he lived about forty minutes from me at Mungindi. I truly love his photography, but I also shudder at the idea of him taking his wonderful pics and flying his chopper at the same time! It gives a whole new [...]
Ah, saturday nights in the bush. A BBQ with friends perhaps, a cosy dinner indoors with a pay TV box office movie or a night writing. Heading into the cooler months its is usually a night writing for me. Except at sowing time. We started last sunday week and although I missed the first two [...]
Coastal farming seems like the ultimate lifestyle to me. Living inland means the closest we get to a beach breeze is a fan on the opposite side of the dam bank! So I asked WA farmer, Fleur McDonald to chat a little about her coastal farming life. Fleur has a new book out this month [...]
Well things are starting to dry up in our part of the world. With the bulk of the cattle branding now completed we are busy trying to prepare cultivations for our winter cropping program. The picture of the cattle - left - was taken on one of our cultivations that has had six floods over it [...]
Today was Back paddock mustering day. Five hours later the cattle arrived at the main homestead yards. To say it was an ordeal was an understatement! Our back country has been under water since late November. Some of you may recall the flood pics I took from the chopper (see below). I have to say that three [...]
Following the severe flooding in Moree earlier this month we received a huge number of telephone calls and emails from friends asking how we were coping with the bigwet. Although early February's flood was substantial, it was not as big as the one we experienced in December 2011. For those of you following my blog [...]
There's one thing about the bigwet we've been experiencing recently, it sure keeps everyone busy. With Moree still recovering from the flood that swept through the town a good ten days ago and our own Boomi-Garah Road (the one we need to take to get to Moree) only officially opened yesterday, it was a fairly [...]
With our part of the world having officially been declared a natural disaster area a few weeks back I'll be glad to see the end of 2011. At the risk of putting everyone off their prawns I've avoided 'sharing' all of our watery woes, however over the last couple pf weeks we actually did have [...]
Recently my best friend gave birth to her third child, a handsome son named Harry. With a ten and twelve year old already in the fold Harry has proved a delight, although I'm sure for Skye there have been some old skills that quickly needed to be brushed up on. Skye and I have been [...]