Join Boobook Explore’s Wildflower Wonderland Day Tour to Gurulmundi and you’ll see flowering grevilleas, hakeas, boronias, wattles and bush peas. You might even find the threatened Gurulmundi Heath-myrtle, and if you’re particularly lucky you will find a Rose. Rose Aisthorpe is Boobook’s resident botanist and wildflower tour guide and has been identifying the plants of… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Hi, I’m Meryl and I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to help review the Roma Big Rig Oil Patch display along with other people from within the region. A few years back the Maranoa Regional Council produced The Big Rig Master Plan, which identifies a lot of great actions. Unfortunately funding availability has restricted… Read more »
