Adventures of a 19 year old

I spent 5 eventful weeks with Genine and Robert on their beautiful, 76,000 acre cattle station "Bodalla", 1,5 hours from a small town called Charters towers. My main job was to help out Genine taking care of her 10+ horses, she taught me heaps about horsemanship, and I got to be part of the 10 day ladies' clinic (a horse training camp) she held.  Apart from riding almost everyday, feeding horses, and cleaning out paddocks, I occasionally went out with Robert and Josh, a full-time worker at Bodalla, to the yards, where the cattle is drafted, branded, castrated, dehorned etc. Having big 500+kg cows and bulls running around you was quite  intimidating at first  , but I quickly learned to love it. As dusty as it may be, it's great fun!  I tried mustering, shooting, riding (and crashing) motorbikes and four-wheelers, feeding cattle, and I saw what it's like to live on a remote outback station, like so many Australians do. They definitely managed to toughen me up q...

I flew from Darwin to Cairns, where I spent 6 days. It's a super chilled out coastal city. The lagoon, no swimming in the ocean since there's stingers, crocodiles, sharks, and all other dangerous animals you can think of :) Day trip to the great barrier reef: Day trip to the stunning Daintree rainforest: The biggest of all the crocodiles in the area, Scarface, 4,8m long. His territory in the river stretches over 6km and is inhabited by his 15 female crocs