Cattle Station Tour: Curtin Springs

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June 10th 2014

Published: June 17th 2014

With last year’s visit to the Cedarberg mountains and a not too long ago visit to Golden Gate in the Free State still etched in memory I find it hard to wax lyrical over Mt Connor; much less get excited over at last spotting some cattle. This is a cattle station, right? But I am being unfair. We did see some of the big red kangaroos too. NO we did not get to see Uluru. Lazy morning again, ex... Read Full Entry

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Every 15 months or so we hit the global trail. We take photos, meticulously keep notes of which number is which photo, and note what we were doing at the time; forgetting of course about time lines and getting us and the camera hopelessly muddled on the dates when we return to civilisation. We zealously collect brochures and little scraps of momento's for the all time scrap album. Alas the photos get stuck into their little meaningless date folders and we have our little arguments when we go through the photos about what happened where and when to the utter boredom of our loved ones; who ... full info

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Ant heap

The whiteness in comparison to surrounding red ground caught my attention

20 years old wreck and very little rust due to dry air.

Now home to a giant lizard. We did not see it but it likes to bask in the sun on the roof. The young man who gate-crashed the property by cutting fences and then broke down was not helped by the station folks (naturally upset at his stupidity and destruction of their property ) and he was unable to afford the call out fee. So the car stayed and now provides a home to a lizard and a story to tell

Mt Connor

We drove all around the base

Ruins of Paddy's wife's house

Paddy built a house for his wife above ground. She did not like the one below ground. See next pic

Entrance to Paddy'd underground house

Sunset champagne on bank of cattle dam at foot of Mt Connor

Mt Connor bathed in last rays of sun

Sun says goodbye to Curtin Springs

Mongrel awaiting a snack

Curtin Springs - info board

A big red kangaroo or two

putting in appearance. Unfortunately we were not quick enough to snap the dingo

17th June 2014

Angela
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Curtin Springs
Nice to see you having fun and learning new and interesting things! :-)

19th June 2014

Kurt
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Such an interesting blog keep it up Gogo!
great photos and excellent entries .... looks like such a nice trip! be safe and God Bless.

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