On the countdown for our stay here at Hamilton Downs Youth Camp, time has been very enjoyable & has flown. Gary & Mary(Peter’s sister) are taking over from us, we will be leaving on Monday 31st July. It has been wonderful sharing our last few weeks here with Gary & Mary, lotz of walking & great times, Mary is an amazing cook – we will miss them but I am sure they will enjoy their time here at HDYC.
We have had a few very fresh days which included icy winds. Up early to watch the sun rise – very nice, just had to find a place out of the wind.
We went for a drive outside of the camp fences within Hamilton Downs Station (this is a working cattle station) – a really nice station currently with lotz of cattle feed due to the great rain they received early in the year & the cattle are in great condition. Mary & Gary in their land cruiser & Peter & me in the patrol, a bit of 4WDing involved through the sandy creeks & very rocky terrains, it was an interesting drive, 20klms in just under 2 hours so the pace was not fast. Had a couple of episodes of not moving but they were worked through successfully, it was good practice for all of us. We came across 2 dams on our drive, good watering spots for the cattle as well as the brumbies, at 1 of the dams a small mob of brumbies came out of the scrub cantering towards the dam, once they saw us they turned tail & bolted, at the other dam there was a mob of cattle lounging around.
The Emu bush is flowering profusely everywhere at the moment, it is a very attractive shrub & while Mary & I were out walking we came across quite a few of these Emu bush shrubs covered in lotz of bees – it was great to see that.
Sun rising above the entrance to the camp.
Here comes the sun.
Found a rather high rock.
Lotz of sandy creek crossings, got to use the max tracks once.
Brumbies haven’t seen us yet.
Brakes on, they have seen us & were off.
Nice dam with the 3 amigo’s.
Emu bush
Cattle at dam #2.
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