Flood Dust Ice
Flood 29th March, Dust 30th March, Ice 1st April, no April Fool joke Just before 7pm Thursday 28th March the Burke Bridge at Boulia started to go under, by flood water. We had known at Goodwood, for a few days, we were in for a good flood. We had received 87mm of rain over the […]
Eagles
Warning a bit of eagle spam When I was younger, and we would sit around as kids and talk about what you would be if you were reincarnated. Didn’t do this? Oh well we did. I always thought I would come back as an eagle and soar the Grand Canyon. I have never been to […]
Marginal Channel Country
Marginal Country……that’s what we live in, meaning, in part, rain is marginal…… we live in a 8-9 inch (200-225mm) rainfall country, so we don’t ask for much. You look after the land out here when it dries off, wait for the rain, and the land will respond, green, seeding grasses that dry off, but still full of goodness.
Old Man Emu and his chicks
We’ve had the wonderful experience of having an Old Man Emu and his chicks hanging around Goodwood since the beginning of August. The main reason being the drought and that he can water his chicks at our overflow from our house windmill. Kimberly first spotted them, Father and six chicks, at the overflow when I was […]
Clearview Heifers: Mustering, Drafting and Trucking
We were been blessed with patchy storm rain at the beginning of the year. So we have been able to fatten cattle. But not knowing if we will get a wet season this year, since some are fat, and a bonus for us, prices are high, our management plan to cull coloured heifers were reasons to muster […]
Christmas Time Goodwood 2014
Usually we swelter on Christmas Day in Outback Queensland, 2014 has been totally different, overcast and cool, no air cons were turned on, so it made for a very pleasant day with a big promise (hope) there may be rain involved. Rick and I went on a bore run out to Clearview, first thing Christmas morning, […]
Who wants to be my gate opener? (Bore Run)
Checking bores I would class as the most important job of our business for obvious reasons. Nothing survives without water, our summer heat greatly reinforces this statement. Before heading out to work every day I drill our workers “have you got water and the Sat (Satellite) phone?” Each of our cars are equipped with UHF radios as well. […]