We were picked up early for our quad bike tour. We drove out to a cattle station that was 3000 square kilometers--a huge family farm!!!! We had to go on a dirt road for part of the trip. We rode the 4 wheelers for about 2.5 hours through the desert.
Here we are!! It was only the four of us and two tour guides.
John got this photo--I am getting instructions about going down the steep hill.
That is me at the bottom riding off! This was a definite highlight of out trip. We learned a lot about the cattle. They just let the cattle graze and only round them up once a year for market. The cattle only venture about 5 kilometers from water. So the station maintains 5 waterholes on the property. The cattle come everyday to the water. On the given day, they trap them and ship them out on a cattle train--which is really a large truck that holds 200 head at a time. Several trucks make the long trip to Darwin (1,500 kilometers away) for butchering. They use the quad bikes and helicopters to round up stray cattle --no horse riding cowboys here. The only predator the cows have is the dingo. The dog attacks the calves if they get separated.
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