The ranch

So I woke up in the morning to sunlight streaming through my window and stumbled out of my room to the kitchen where everyone was already up and the smell of coffee was tantalizing. It turns out they have an espresso machine and Starbucks espresso blend for the morning. It was heaven and to top it there was home made muesli with oats, puffed rice and buckwheat, flax seed, dried apricots, pumpkin seeds, almonds, and fresh cantelope and kiwi to go on top. I will try not to dwell too much on the food but Sally is an amazing cook and I have yet to encounter a single thing that she cooked that I did not enjoy. The picture below is of most of the working buildings excluding the actual house which was built in the wool boom of the 50s which is a 6 bedroom house with beautiful hardwood floors and a very welcoming feel. I got to stay in George's room which is covered with posters of Australian cricket and rugby stars

The ranch compound

Cattle out in the paddock

The green you see in the picture is one of the two main types of grass on the ranch, a variety of bull grass which is a perennial and most of the dried out grass is a variety of flinders grass which is an annual. This country is a natural grassland, and it just happened that I came at the perfect time just after the rainy season when there is grass everywhere. The first day here Belinda, the governess and I went out to muster a mob of steers from one paddock to the next and then relaxed. The weekend was another story.