HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

i hope everything has started off great for everyone out there. i'm still at chudleigh park keepin it real. i spent christmas and new years with the Camms (the fam that owns the station). it was awesome and i even got presents (cologne being one of them haha).

below are pics of the station and what goes on around here.

sorry it took so long mom :)

wait, one more thing: HAAAAAAPPY NEEEEEEEWWWWW YEEEEEEARRRR!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wonder what the people of strathelen are like...

chudleigh park is 420,000 acres. this is one paddock of like 30.

and another paddock.

left to right: tanel, amelia, kat, joby, kristina, kristina, me

cows get stuck in anything you could get stuck in. i guess that just makes sense.

one of my jobs was to do this:

 then this

then this.

i've blown out a couple tires while here

i've also been "bogged". from here i walked 4 hours to a dirt-bike which i rode 2 hours back to the homestead. good times

australian harness

i would gage myself on how dirty i got. this was the dirtiest day

my room

my bathroom

an iguana

it took me like two weeks to catch this little pig! i finally trapped him in a corner and got him

python!

love you guys!

some photos yo

hello all! first and foremost, i regret to say that this post contains no photos of my experiences so far on the cattle station. for one, i haven’t really had much time to take many pics. and for two, i just haven’t really thought about it.

but life is good here, peaceful, and i’m able to focus on certain things. a couple of the guys left (jobie and kat) so now there are only four of us working on the station. right now you may wondering how only four people can run a 420,000 acre cattle station… well i’ll tell you: we are done mustering (rounding up cattle) and it’s the off season. so now it’s a whole bunch of checking for bogged cattle (cows stuck in mud), checking bore water levels, fixing broken fences, blah blah blah meh. but in about a week we’re mustering again so that’ll be cool cuz it’s kinda fun chasing cattle around.

anyhoo, at the moment i’m in the northern city, townsville taking a few days off to go exploring a little bit. and guess what? i found an internet café to post pictures from my travels after china: vietnam to before chudleigh park. a lot has happened within those few months so below are some of my favorite photos of that time.

laters!

thanks for still reading this, ashley.

and much thanks to iben. some of the pics below are hers :)

phu quoc, vietnam

some dog who blended in with the cement

phu quoc

phu quoc to mainland vietnam

western australia (wa)

wa

wa

the van!! 

coral bay, australia

one of my favorite pics. my danish homie, iben, freaked out when a SMALL fish touched her foot

broome, australia

 i can't remember, but somewhere in australia

(same place as above)

kakadu national park

like glass!

a frog

kakadu national park

my german friend i picked up on the way to chudleigh park. a car or truck would pass like every 20 minutes

kakadu national park

kakadu national park

much love :)