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  • Driving on outback Queensland dirt roads

    Driving on Outback Dirt Roads

    Driving on our Outback Roads can have its moments. While out and about on a recent trip to a remote part of the Carnarvon Range, Craig snapped these photos through the windscreen (while safely stopped at the side of the road). The sight of a road train approaching at speed on a dirt road and… Read more »

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  • lady farmer and her cattle truck

    Life is Never Boring – What a Week!

    The past week was a little bit more crazy than usual.  It started on the weekend when we took a touch football team from Roma to the Gold Coast for a one day carnival.  The Gold Coast is about a six and a half hour drive from Roma.  To give our kids access to top… Read more »

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  • guy smiling laughing outdoors nature ecologist

    Craig Eddie – Open Sesame

    Remember Open Sesame – the magic words that allowed Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves entry into the treasure filled cave? Well Boobook Explore, located in Roma Queensland, has its own version of open sesame. It is snails. Snails, you ask? That seems fairly innocuous, doesn’t it? To the average person the word snails does… Read more »

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  • Early Mornings on the farm dogs cattle Roma region Queensland Outback flood water

    Life is Never Boring – Flood Gates

    I ducked out to the farm recently (about 40kms north of Roma, Queensland), it was a beautiful early morning trip to check on the cattle, see how the grass was growing after the beautiful rain we had received and to see how our flood gates were holding up.  Flood gates are the fences we put… Read more »

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  • mustering dogs

    Life is Never Boring – Mustering

    Recently, I spent a couple of days mustering cattle to treat them for Buffalo Fly. The buffalo fly, Haematobia irritans exigua, is a small biting fly 3.5 – 4 mm long. They feed off cattle and buffalo (hence their name), and cause irritation which can result in reduced production, if cattle are heavily infested.  They… Read more »

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  • baby emus just hatched

    Life is Never Boring – Emus

    Hi I’m Meryl. I had a tourism planning meeting in Roma, Queensland a couple of weeks back.  When I came outside of the Visitor Information Centre at around 1pm and found these two tourists enjoying the rain.  It is not often we get emus in the middle of town, and when we do they are… Read more »

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