Dundoo Station

Well we made it! After 15 hours of travel West of Brisbane we found our new temporary home. Scott Haig is our boss and land lord and a funny guy he is. I would post pictures but unfortunately our friend Scottie has a slow and old computer. So old infact that I can't email anyone from this computer. So sad but that's the breaks right.

At any rate I must point out that this is not a farm. It is rightfully called a Station and he owns 130,000 acres of land and it's all red with green trees and rock and just amazing. He has cattle in the thousands and goats and sheep. We see wild emu's and kangaroos. There are many breeds by the way. Red, Blue, Wallaroos and Grey... within the Grey breed are many other subbreeds like Western Grey... anyway enough of that.

We are building an electric fence and let me tell you we are learning a lot. I get to drive the tractor while Scott pounds in the pegs (if I line it up right haha) and Danielle steps it out, runs for the car and helps Scott get the pegs to be lined up. It's quite an operation. So far we have put together 244 pegs, placed 3 straigners (to tighten up the wires every 700 km) all at 17 paces in between per peg... now I say 17 but those are my paces, Danielle's paces are 19 so if you feel up for an adventure go for a walk and either use 17, 18 (to split the difference) or 19 paces 247 times and see how long that is. :) Again as I said we aren't done but can you imagine our long cold days... OMG it's cold here. Apparently we are on a ridge and so the wind gets us and it's friggin cold! I don't know the temperatures but I reckon I like it that way so that I don't really know how cold I am. Hahaha oh the power the mind has over us.

Needless to say it's a lot better here than at the training farm. Scott is amazing and very sweet. He works in little shorts it cracks us up. Look up any picture you want of Australian Bus drivers, mail men, you name it they wear short shorts because it gets so hot here. Too freakin funny. Our first day out Danielle and I just looked at each other and tried our best to keep our laughter under our breath. Minus the short shorts he is a great guy and has really taken great care of us. We cleaned out his house though the first day after work. Hahaha he is a a bachelor and about 50 something and the house was a wreck so we took it upon ourselves to clean things up and make it livable so that Danielle and I wouldn't be grossed out at every corner. So now that we have it liveable there are just two things to get past... water that smells like rotten eggs and grey meat.

Rotten Egg Water: Let me explain. There is this layer of water 1,000 meters under the Australian soil in most of Queesnland called the Artesian Basin. It flows in from the Great Barrier Reef and if you are lucky enough to have land over it then you can drill for your own water and at least give water to your animals and have water in the house... now as it implies it comes at a smelly cost... although if you are like our new friend Scott you eventually become immune to it over time. The bloke (I can say this because he calls everyone a bloke) drinks it, cooks with it, cleans with it you name it and is not phased at all! Crazy! I only use it to shower because I have no choice and that is a nose plugged shower I tell you... so sad! But it's still not bad enough to go back to the training farm.

Grey Meat: Scott eats beef at every meal and by meal I mean tea. Hahahahaha he always asks whats on for tea and he means dinner. Makes me laugh everytime. Anyway beef is great and I love it I'm a carnavor (sp sorry) but holy cow! hahahaha I made a funny! He cooks it so that it's grey and rubbery and almost near tasteless and steemed veggies and that's all you have when you eat at Cafe a la Haig! We went grocery shopping today and I think Danielle and I have decided to take up cooking from now on! Wish us luck!

Ok so now on to serious matters! I so stand corrected! I thought there was nothing that could beat a Texas sunset but I'm here to tell you I've never seen one in Australia before and I've got to say Texas sunsets stand no chance against the sunsets of the biggest open sky I've ever seen! We stayed working late on Friday night and it was a bit over cast and cold all day and soon it started to get dark and the sun popped under the clouds on it's way down and I don't know that my words can give it justice but the most brilliant yellows, purples, pinks, oranges and blue set before us catching all three of us by surprise and we just stood and watched the beauty unfold before us for as long as we could. It was amazing and although we didn't have our cameras I will always take the sunset with me it was just breath taking.

We watched Rugby League the other night too! That was fun... it's actually different than Rugby so we learned a lot I'm thinking it's the equivilant to our Arena Football but at any rate the Titans were fun to watch and they beat the Roosters hahahahahaha I've yet to watch an All Blacks game but Scott says next weeks so I'm holding my breath and ready for The Haka! Woo hoo!

Well I'm sure there are many other stories I could tell you but right now I'm done writing don't forget if you want the more eliquent (if I even spelled that right) version of my stories click on Danielle's name to the right of this story. That will take you straight to her blog and you can get the rest of the story.

Love you guys and for the time being remember I can't email or read your emails so continue to email me all you want it will be fun to catch up when I can.