Monday, 17 June 2013

Bramwell Station

A short 260klm today back through Weipa to fuel up and get a travel coffee, we found our way to Bramwell Cattle Station.

Like them all, Nat really likes these stays. The staff are always so friendly and you always get a good feel for working on the land. It is well serviced with hot showers and toilets, bore water, an outback pub with meals & plenty of space for the kids to run around. The bloke that runs it only lives a few streets away which was quite funny, he comes up in the dry season to run the bar and arrange functions on the property.

The tents are certainly getting erected more quickly now and before long happy hour started by the sounding of a huge cow bell. We didn't need much coercion.

Guess who we find over there....purple pyjama lady and the family.....

To her credit we didn't hear any more about the famous brother in law, and her husband seemed OK too, but they still would talk under water with a mouth full of marbles and love to finish each others sentences.

The boys went with Rob over to the cattle yards and fed the cows which was great. Mav shows no fear with animals and has a particular interest in all, he might be a vet yet... There were Guinea foul all over the place and whilst there are supposed to be plentiful black cockatoos, we didn't see any. It's great to have the boys exposed to this stuff at a young age.

The rain set in as a constant spit, so we just did pasta for tea and then by 9pm we were all in bed. Probably a good thing given our late one last night.....

Elliott & Fruit Bat Falls tomorrow and we are as good as at the tip.

Great stuff.

Jase


 

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