North again to a small place called Goomeri east of Gympie where the Outbackpackers course was held. The course took place on a beef farm and we stayed in their hostel about 15 mins drive away. It cost $550 including accommodation, food, grog and a guaranteed job! It was a great week with lots of fun and good tuition and advice from our instructors Mat and Rance. The food was fantastic for lunch and dinner, good hearty meals for being out and about on the farm.
We rode horses, motorbikes, quads, drove tractors and 4x4s, all on some good fun tracks. We also learned how to use chainsaws, repair fences and muster the big scary Bramen cattle they have here. The Friday night there was a big piss up which left me not feeling too well on the Saturday morning. 
The job we found is in the middle South Australia on Wilgena Station near the town of Tarcoola, only 2500 kms or so from where we were! We were hoping to get work in southern Queensland or New South Wales but this was our only option. It has turned out ok though as it’s a nice place with a very friendly family running the farm and the work is not hard with plenty of variety.
Wilgena is a sheep station of 5076 sq kms of red sand and scrubland, there is not much here but the sheep seem to do alright on it. Its very dry here usually and the water is from deep bores and large rainwater tanks for drinking.
The work consists of doing water runs around the property twice a week, mustering sheep on motorbike, fixing leaks and fences, (lots of fixing leaks), fixing the motorbikes, and everything elses associated with running a sheep farm. I will get some pics of life on the station on my next post.
We rode horses, motorbikes, quads, drove tractors and 4x4s, all on some good fun tracks. We also learned how to use chainsaws, repair fences and muster the big scary Bramen cattle they have here. The Friday night there was a big piss up which left me not feeling too well on the Saturday morning. The job we found is in the middle South Australia on Wilgena Station near the town of Tarcoola, only 2500 kms or so from where we were! We were hoping to get work in southern Queensland or New South Wales but this was our only option. It has turned out ok though as it’s a nice place with a very friendly family running the farm and the work is not hard with plenty of variety.
Wilgena is a sheep station of 5076 sq kms of red sand and scrubland, there is not much here but the sheep seem to do alright on it. Its very dry here usually and the water is from deep bores and large rainwater tanks for drinking.
The work consists of doing water runs around the property twice a week, mustering sheep on motorbike, fixing leaks and fences, (lots of fixing leaks), fixing the motorbikes, and everything elses associated with running a sheep farm. I will get some pics of life on the station on my next post.
Smile everyone! the moon has lined up with venus and juipter tonignt to smile down on us :)
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