Thursday, 14 March 2019

Tues, 12th Mar, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA



7am 27 degrees, blue sky and puffy white clouds and nice breeze.

Found a little bat in our pool – poor thing.

Headed off on our bore run. All good at most of the water points. No cattle about at any of them.

The trough had overflowed again at Holding Paddock – not helping in filling up the tank again. Steve found some feathers caught in the float seat – hopefully just the remainder of the last finch, not another one. Plenty of cattle hanging around here. Found some pipe to use on St Patrick’s windmill shaft so took that back to cut up.

Home for lunch then we headed back to St Patrick’s to replace the t-piece and pipe on the windmill shaft. Fiddly job as you have to tie up the blades – luckily the wind isn’t blowing at the moment. Then he had to disconnect the pipe and unscrew the old t-piece which with the calcium in the water was stuck fast but he managed with some brute strength to get it apart. Got it back together and released the blades. A gust of wind came through and it worked well – yeah.

The dingo/wild dog is here again wandering around.  We found out why there was water on the ground around the trough, he had climbed in and was cooling off – he did look cute, should have brought my camera. It was 41 degrees after all. He must have been a Leonora dog as he is not afraid of us at all and just kept his distance. There was another dead roo inside the busted water tank and it pongs. Another newly killed one and another rotting one near the water trough. I pulled the newer one further away – only the end of the tail was eaten. The other was too rotten to move so the place is really stinking now. Shame he is killing the roos but we can’t do anything about him so will just let Rob know.

Back home for a cool off in the pool, still 41 degrees. Put the air conditioner on for the van and had our cuppa inside in the cool as the flies are still very annoying.

Did my grocery order ready for our trip to Kal on Friday. Need to look into tyres and batteries too.

The cattle have moved under the trees near the yard and settled in for a quiet afternoon too.

Dark clouds have moved over and Steve saw a couple of drops of rain fall – boy we could do with some rain.

Saw a few flashes of lightning in the south even though the sky is now full of stars.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.


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