2015 Cattle Station Trip – Week 11
Wave Hill, Pigeon Hole, Montejinni, Moolooloo, Victoria River Downs, Newry and Carlton Hill
The Kent Saddlery Truck started off Week 11 at Wave Hill then onto Pigeon Hole, Montejinni, Moolooloo, Victoria River Downs, Newry and finishing at Carlton Hill.
Lyle and Helen are over the hump now on their trip and I’m sure Helen is looking forward to the return home and seeing all their Grandkids.
Wave Hill
Sunday 31 May 2015
Bronco Panel feature in garden at entry to the station complex.
Wave Hill’s kitchen.
Wave Hill sign and historical display at the entry to the station complex.
Station complex and gardens.
Pigeon Hole
Monday 01 June 2015
Pigeon Hole sign on the Buntine Highway.
Night shopping at Kent Saddlery’s travelling shop – Pigeon Hole Station.
Pigeon Hole kids playground and horse playground area.
Kitchen and recreation room – Pigeon Hole Station.
Pigeon Hole station complex – a circular corral-like plan. Following a big flood in 2001, the original station complex was shifted to the current site on higher ground.
Montejinni
Tuesday 02 June 2015
Montejinni garden.
Kitchen and recreation room – Montejinni Station.
Workers quarters at Montejinni Station.
Montejinni sign on the Buntine Highway, near Top Springs.
Station yards – Montejinni Station.
Moolooloo
Wednesday 03 June 2015
Moolooloo country, driving towards Victoria River area.
Kitchen and homestead – Moolooloo Station.
Workers Quarters and Recreation Room, Moolooloo Station.
Sign to Moolooloo on the Buchanan Highway, NT.
Victoria River Downs
Thursday 04 June 2015
Entrance to Victoria River Downs Station
Victoria River Downs Station Homestead.
Kitchen and workers quarters – Victoria River Downs Station, NT.
Victoria River Downs country.
Excellent grazing country. Victoria River region, NT.
Lyle and Helen’s stopover at Victoria River Downs Station was at Larry’s Lake, a stock camp where the workers were drafting a mob of cattle. Workers camp out at the site and Lyle and Helen always enjoy the opportunity to camp out too (from the relative comfort of their Supafloat home).
Early Morning start at Larry’s Lake
Yards at Larry’s Lake
Kent Saddlery Supafloat crossing the Dashwood Crossing near VRD Station.
Newry
Friday 05 June 2015
Entrance to Newry Station, just off the Victoria Highway, NT.
Sunset through a Boab tree – Newry Station, NT.
Newry’s “ringers” on horseback, walking cattle away from the station yards.
Newry Station’s Homestead.
Newry’s kitchen, early morning.
Same beautiful sunset – through a gum tree.
Rocky escarpment near Newry Station.
Carlton Hill
Saturday 06 June 2015
Carlton Hill – Backdrop for life at the station.
Horses.
Inviting shaded kitchen and recreation room area at Carlton Hill Station.
Lagoon at Carlton Hill Station.
Lagoon at Carlton Hill Station.
A station home overlooking the lagoon at Carlton Hill Station.
A wooden cross attached to a Boab tree on the way into Carlton Hill Station – a memorial to a ringer tragically killed in an accident near the site.
