Backpacking to Outbacking!

So this is just a quick message to all those we havnt managed to get hold of. The story is that we are on a cattle station. It has no phone , tv or radio so the rest of the world has been a mystery. We are 200km from the nearest town and the neighbours fly in via planes and hellicopters. it is certainly different to st marys and bromyard.
It is amazing though.... i have accomplished a childhood dream and am a real life cowboy! Mustering 100s of cattle! Ashley has been mastering her off road driving (there are no roads) and drives the big tractors. She and I also have butchered cattle and pigs (little gory i know). The wildlife is amazing everywhere you look there is something new.
Which btw....I did shoot a 7 foot kangaroo (very proud of that)...(they are a major pest here like rabbits or raccoons in uk and canada)!
But the station lifestyle is great, looks like we are taking a road train with some of the animals soon....over 50 meters in length!
There is so much to tell you but i literally have no time this connection only comes on for few mins at a time!! will update later;
we are safe and loving it!!

Some interesting factoids...

As many of you know (or many of you don't) our next plan of action when the planting ceases is to head into the Northern Territory of Australia which is widely considered the almighty Outback. Now I have been reading Bill Bryson's Down Under (for the second time) and he points out that in spite of Australia's size we pay very little attention to it in the western world. Case in point, who knew that in 1967 the Prime Minister of Australia (whose name has escaped me at the moment) was washed out to sea with a strong rip tide never to be seen again. I bet not many of you! How many people knew JFK was assassinated?!?!
Furthermore, to illustrate just how enormous Australia REALLY is, in 1993 there was a seismic event quite similar to an earthquake in the Western Australian outback. The few people anywhere near the event claimed it caused "beer cans to dance off tables" (a quote straight from Bryson) and a few truckers claimed to see flashes of light in the sky. Scientists pondered the phenomenon for a few days as the activity they recorded was nothing at all like a typical earthquake and they couldn't find any crater to indicate that an asteroid had hit the earth. They mustn't have thought about it very long and the mystery event never made front page news. 5 years later they discovered that the same Japanese terrorist group responsible for releasing poison nerve gas into the Tokyo subway system in 1995 owns a 500,000 acre plot of land in Western Australia... and conveniently employs two former soviet nuclear engineers. So in short, the world's first non-government nuclear bomb was launched/deployed/set off in the Western Australian outback and there wasn't a soul that noticed - except for the guy whose beer fell over. That's Australia for ya!

Turtles...

Some random guy snapped this photo of me with the Turtles..Just thought should share with the world!!!