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I drive nearly 200km every day on a close to 2 million acre cattle station checking turkey nests. There are 25 nests on my run and I've split it in half so they're all checked every other day.
You'd think doing so much driving and spending your days with nobody but yourself with the two-way and radio as your only company would be boring. And yes, it is some days. But others are very special. Like that time when the sun was just about to rise over the horizon, it was so quiet that I could almost touch it and I was standing next to my first bore for the day just looking out on the land trying to take it all in when a lonely dingo started howling. That was magical, and a bit spooky.
Another time after we'd had some rain and the paddocks were truly getting green I would just picture what it must have been like when dinosaurs walked the Earth.
I've seen kangaroo's skipping about with little Joey's in their pouch and I've had a few dingoes close up, with perfect pictures to prove it! I've been scared by wild pigs and also tried to sneak up close on the same pigs.
I've had to rescue a calf that got stuck in a trough and been swearing for more than half an hour at another trough because the bung wouldn't seal after I'd cleaned it.
I've learned to look after Kubota motors, and I can also replace broken belts and service a Ute, as well as mend flat tyres!
Being a borerunner is not what every female backpacker gets to do because, as my boss said, "you've got to know your way around and know your tools", But very few things are impossible.
And by the way, turkey nests don't have anything to do with the actual bird the aussies eat for Christmas. It's something that has got the resemblance of a huge mole hole filled with water. Like a giant swimming pool built of dirt sitting on the ground and its purpose is to supply the troughs with water.
Lilly Badman - Sweden