Strength
The Channel Country is renowned for the amazing fattening ability in cattle after a flood. Sir Sidney Kidman was a very wise man indeed.
The rains are ‘ere!
“Growing up in Birdsville… I took many things for granted: dust, searing summer and very occasionally, bursts of flooding rain. When the rains came, the few of us lucky enough…
Charlie in the trough
When the trough is broken and needs fixing and it is 45 degrees! Water is the most precious commodity on a cattle station and water runs to check the troughs…
The muster
The Channel Country floodplains are renowned as some of the best cattle-fattening country in the world. The free flowing rivers mean floods from rainfall in the upper catchments flow south…
Mile Sandhill
From fertile floodplains to red arid dunes, the Channel Country is home to over 50 ecosystems. From freshwater fish and burrowing frogs to thorny devils and dunnarts, an incredible diversity…
Red-tailed black cockatoo
A sign of something more… The rivers, floodplains, dunes and gibber plains of the Channel Country are a bird watchers paradise! On a late afternoon you can expect flocks of…
Charlie on the sandhill
Sunset on the sandhills. The western sun illuminates the Windorah sandhills creating a depth of colour and a magical viewpoint to watch the sunset.
The view from above
The Georgina and Diamantina Rivers and the Cooper Creek are among the last free flowing desert rivers on Earth and they into Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre. These desert river systems are…
Closing the Gates
Closing gates is not an arduous task with this view. We love living in the Channel Country – spectacular landscape, with sunrises and sunsets to watch colours change, absorb and…