With the family whos station I am staying on away on holiday, I have been left to run the place. Only 80,000 acres for me to look after plus 3 dogs, roughly 3500 cows and 1 frog !
I am also helping to build a set of cattle yards at another property in my spare time !!
I am also planning the trip of a lifetime for my brother and a friend when they come and see me in March for a month. So far we will be seeing Queensland, The Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales !
It's going to be a hectic month !! I am currently sorting out all the things we will be doing and the accomodation - Including a Sydney Habour Bridge Climb, A day with Capricorn Dave, A look at a station (Hopefully) A trip round the Whitsundays. A tour of Fraiser Island, and a few other things. I know they are both really looking forward to it and I really am too.
The station has gort a new chopper and it was used for the first time yesterday to muster 500 cattle which we moved for 1 field to another. The chopper is working well and the cattle were moved quickle and efficiently.
In the last 3 days I have seen 3 snakes - Two small harmless Carpet Pithons and one 1.5m King Brown - If you are bitten by this you will die in around 10 mins. Thankfully I was in the car when we saw it.
The weather has been pretty bad recently on the East Coast with Cyclones and heavy rain causing lots of flooding and beach erosion all along the Sunshine and Gold Coasts. I hope it will be Ok by the time we get there. The heavy rain is not like heavy rain at home. Charters Towers had aroung 11ins of rain one night !! All the dams are beginning yo fill up which is a really good sight, but not so good far any holiday makers around there at the moment !! More rain is forecast, and hopefully we will also get some out here in NW Queensland.
Thatsa all my news for now.
Hope everyone is well in the UK or anywhere else aroung the world.
Ed
