Monday, Jan 29, 2018 at 17:37
Hi Phil & Stephen,
The
waterhole at
Annandale is huge and Bob is correct.
It is a deep
waterhole too.
It was full when we were there.
Mustering was usually done during the winter months and as those of you who know the desert in winter, you start out fully rugged up in the early hours of the morning, take off clothes by layers during the day & by the time you reach evening you've got them all back on again.
The hats!,
well they're permanent, even when having a nap during the heat of the day, if time permits, they're over your face under a shady tree keeping the flies off.
I found one of these photos funny because the water was just about over the bottom end of one corner, one wrong move & it would've become a bath!
Things have changed on the Cattle Stations these days, even from the days when hubby & I were on the Stations. Some things for better, some for worse.
Once the desert & Station life gets into your blood, you either love it or hate it.
As the Quote goes." A drover's life has pleasures that townsfolk never know".
Unquote, Terryt. I have the Poem Kidman's Boys & some others & I certainly love them. My Grandfather is in one of them & he used to read them to
me as a child.
I'm glad some of you liked the old photos, the writing was hard to read on the back but I
reckon I got it right. I appreciate your thanks.
Take care, safe travels. Ma.
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