Busy at Bullo with lots still happening, outbreaks of Covid are still affecting our guests booking's. Every day changes.
Steve & I had 2 days off and drove to Kunnara. We slept in the roof top tent on the first night as we needed to get the car in for its 10000k service at 8am the following morning. Saturday night we stayed in the Kimberley Grande and had a great time in the sports bar.
Sunday it was the station managers, son's 18th birthday, we were invited for drinks & of course both of us ended up having a water ski. It was great fun, very relaxing and good to see younger staff learning to ski. (No Pictures).
Next the ringers & Station Manager were drafting Bulls, just in the paddock by horse. I had a couple of hours break & headed over to spectate.
Ainslee opening the gate.
Look at this pair - always together and with them horns big trouble!
Putting up a fight.
Richard - keep on him!
Ainslee has this one under control.
This one is not happy about being in the yards - pawing the dirt!
The Station Managers has got this one.
Or has he???
Big Boys Galore.
Erin even has time for a drink.
The Boss counting.
Its very calm with these Bulls.
Younger Bull's coming for a look at me.
Arrrhhhhh!
Fighting or friends?
Heading out.
Walking them in.
# According to our recent count we have 146 Bulls, they do look high quality.
# Our station have one Bull to every 25 cows.
# We have 232 cattle to cull (Sell).
# We have 252 Wagyu cattle.
# We have 2892 Bhaman
# We have just finished our first round of mustering and branded 808 cattle.
# We had the vet fly in for the day, he did pregnancy testing & Speying.
# We had a buyer fly in and he brought several cattle, we wanted to get rid off, some going to Malaysia and some Indonesia. I actually got called into the yards to help with the count.
# The truck came for the Indonesian lot, which was four decks.
# The Malaysian leave in July.
The sun setting - driving to Kunnara.
We arranged a wine tasting on our guest free days. Voyager wine is owned by the owners of Bullo River Station. This will help us with recommending wine to our guests.
Next we did the "Horse Experience" - this is a new tour for this year, if guests don't want to ride, they can still see some horse work. We have 6 stock horses & 6 trail ride horses. Krissy our horse guide, is working with two of the horses, Coconut & Koolman, using the clicking system and treats. This looked to be working very well. It was great to see what Krissy offers to guests. No tack is used in this demonstration.
Krissy.
Lunging by talking & showing the horse, which direction to move in.
Treat time.
Krissy telling the horse she can come to her now.
Waving the stock whip around, checking the horse is cool & calm for trail rides.
Getting Coconut in position, using the clicking system - so Krissy can hop on.
Coconut doing as told.
Backing up.
Our rostered days off, seem to come round quickly. This time we head out on the property for a night of camping. An amazing time, we took some tracks, back tracked and eventually found a track out to a large rock hole.
Heading out into the wilderness.
Danielle's Crossing.
Escarpments looming.
Steve at the rock hole.
Not sure if croc free so no swimming.
We can see where the water flows in the wet.
Steve enjoying the peace & quiet.
The Look Out.
Steve has a shady spot to read his kindle & have a beer.
Stunning topography.
Our bed is set up.
Turkey Bush.
The Gorge.
Free camping on the road.
The last sunlight on the rocks, which would be a water fall in the wet.
Last light.
