Cunning Cattle.
..I'm currently posted in a small rural town on Western Queensland (that’s in Orstraalia), as per conditions of my work. I truly love my work. Open skies during the day, laptop and beers at night.

Tonight, I had dinner at the (only) pub in town, and I got chatting with a helicopter pilot over a beer or two. He herds cattle on one of the big stations here in the the scrub. He’s herded plenty of cattle into the yawning maw of the many Road Trains destined for the abattoir. But, for the past 8 years he has seen one massive bullock hiding in the scrub, too smart to let the whirring blades of a helicopter scare him into running like a fool.

The pilot has this begrudging admiration for this one bullock that has learned to not give a shit about helicopter mustering, but instead, enjoy the good life wandering across endless miles of open plains, munching on half-arsed grass tussocks and maybe shagging a pretty cow or two. By visual estimation, he weighs a tonne.
I love that the chopper pilot is not fussed spending too much effort chasing this wily animal, the crafty bugger is living the life of Bovine Riley, he’s got it sussed, and the station owners are none the wiser so long as the annual beef quota is met.
( Ken Oath, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:25, 9 replies)

Lucky cunt.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 31 May 2012, 11:30, closed)

I take that as a compliment
you fucker.
( Ken Oath, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:31, closed)

Near The Isa?
If you get a chance head to "Silver Hills Springs" out of Cloncurry. and Go to the Gregory River Race (can't remember the proper name) but a decent boat race in a dry river bed and a fucking good pissup!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 31 May 2012, 11:42, closed)

Closer to Windorah.
Middle of nowhere. Great steaks and really nice,funny backpacker barmaids. One of them is a scouser.
( Ken Oath, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:48, closed)

Yes.
May he die peacefully under a bush.

Not the pilot, the bullock. Although maybe dying under a bush would be better than a helicopter crash.

Kate Bush, maybe.
(username failed moderation, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:44, closed)

mmm...
Kate Bush in her prime.
( Ken Oath, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:49, closed)

the problem with rural WA is you have to spend everynight with the same pissed cunts
like some warped groundhog day with fat pissed miners and cockies
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:47, closed)

Yeah but you're getting paid shitloads to do it tho.
Rite?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 31 May 2012, 11:49, closed)

I hate camps for that reason.
Luckily some surveyors are a bit more mobile.
( Ken Oath, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:51, closed)