Sunday, September 28, 2014

Larrawa Cattle Station 23 Sept My Birthday

Thanks to everyone who emailed and txt birthday wishes.
We left Spring Creek and headed to the next town which was Halls Creek.
Now this is your typical outback town with many locals sitting on the ground under what shade they could find, the ground was red dust as well.
They did have a great little IGA for us to stock up on. However in this town you could not by any takeaway alcohol that was more than 2.5%, so that meant no birthday bubbles tonight. Luckily we had one bottle of red under the bed left.
The birthday lunch consisted of a local made  bakery pie. Actually it was very good as far as pies go, but not quite what I had imagined!!!
We did have a very nice steak dinner and I will have my birthday treat out when we get to Broome.
We stayed the night at our first cattle station Larrawa which is nearly 500,000 acres and they have recently opened at camping paddock which was great. It was nice talking to the owner Wendy and finding out a  little about life on an outback station.
We did have a problem the next morning when the Toyota wouldn't start. Typical auto electricians car, the batteries were dead flat so we needed a jump start from Wendy. The budget was rather blown to nearly $500 for 2 new batteries at the next town, Fitzroy Crossing ouch!
Sunset at Larrawa Station

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Audrey. I hope all is well, enjoy the holidays with the boys!

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