We had Easter Sunday off and it was well spent touring the sights of El Questro station (ELQ they brand themselves). We headed to ELQ after work on Saturday, it is about an hour and a half from Kununurra, but it took a bit longer as we drove most of the Gibb river road section in the dark, and half of that having a wild blind drive in a dust cloud behind people who would not let us past. The boys suggested we should turn it into a show ride. It is an unusual feeling when the first warning there is a corner coming up is a floodway sign apparently in the middle of the road, and when turning high beam on decreases rather than adds visibility.
The main reason we headed to ELQ was that it was the first of their Saturday night shows that run throughout the dry season. They put on buffet dinner if you want it, plus one of the employees, Chris Mathews busts out some good numbers on the guitar and banjo, and an old Afghan stockman called Buddy Tyson shows off his lasso-ing and whip cracking skills. The place was packed with Kununurra and Wyndham people, and the Swinging Arm Bar was doing a roaring trade!
The party was still going at 6 am in the morning, people yelling, carrying on, and playing music. Needless to say there were a few sore heads being soothed at the warm Zebeedee springs that morning.
I went with Phil, Torsten, and Christian. Phil is one of the workers up here, he is a farm boy from Morree NSW, and arrived early in the week. They have an irrigated farm with cotton when they have enough water plus chickpeas, mungbeans, soybeans, wheat and assorted other crops. Torsten is from an average sized 30ha farm in northern Germany, and is here for the season before he goes home to finish is agricultural machinery apprenticeship. I went to uni with Christian, and he is in the proccess of taking over the farm from his dad.
We checked out Chamberlain and Emma Gorge also, but the boys were not keen to do the 8K walk in to Amalia gorge for some reason.
The main reason we headed to ELQ was that it was the first of their Saturday night shows that run throughout the dry season. They put on buffet dinner if you want it, plus one of the employees, Chris Mathews busts out some good numbers on the guitar and banjo, and an old Afghan stockman called Buddy Tyson shows off his lasso-ing and whip cracking skills. The place was packed with Kununurra and Wyndham people, and the Swinging Arm Bar was doing a roaring trade!
The party was still going at 6 am in the morning, people yelling, carrying on, and playing music. Needless to say there were a few sore heads being soothed at the warm Zebeedee springs that morning.
I went with Phil, Torsten, and Christian. Phil is one of the workers up here, he is a farm boy from Morree NSW, and arrived early in the week. They have an irrigated farm with cotton when they have enough water plus chickpeas, mungbeans, soybeans, wheat and assorted other crops. Torsten is from an average sized 30ha farm in northern Germany, and is here for the season before he goes home to finish is agricultural machinery apprenticeship. I went to uni with Christian, and he is in the proccess of taking over the farm from his dad.
We checked out Chamberlain and Emma Gorge also, but the boys were not keen to do the 8K walk in to Amalia gorge for some reason.
Emma gorge waterfall.
