Winning Station {Working}

Another year, another visit to Winning & more bib making for the Gymkarna!




What a difference 12 months and a heap of rain can make.  Our normal spot had to be cleaned up with a whipper snipper before we could even set up our camper, in the cool night.  The buffle grass was just so high, green and lush looking I didn't want to cut it down.

Justin had some new rooms to build, next to the finished bathroom from last year. The kids and I had to do schoolwork, as always. I had a great time taking pictures in the grass, of all the flowers that area around and of the abundance of butterflies around the place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids even got in some driving lessons from Aggie. They can actually drive reasonably well considering it was their first time.  Kaleb can start the car and drive through to second gear, alone and Kyla is getting better with the concentration whist steering the car.

 

 

They even drove us to check out how full the lake was.  I was more surprised than I expect, we couldn't even drive over the sand hill and down the other side.  It was that full!

 

We took a drive over the the old Marilla homestead for another look, having been two years since our last.  It to looked different with all the feed around, there was more cactus {which they are now trying hard to get rid of} and a few things missing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sewing day saw 26 more competition bibs made for the gymkarna with help from Lorriane and Aunty Jenny.  It certainly made it much faster with all the help and was nice to have it finished in one whole day.

 

Even better than a day of sewing with wonderful woman was the plane ride over Winning to see how different it looked from the sky.  An amazing trip around the east side of the station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I even had a small walk around the tip, looking for some old cast iron baths that Kim had brought years ago. Four, old and amazing baths.  Can't wait to see one of them end up in their new bathroom when it is up and built.

 

Another plane ride, this time Kim took us to Glen Florrie for J to look at what is was that they wanted done.  After driving over their driveway I am so glad that he offered to take us, it really would've been a full day drive, especially on that 88km red dirt and super windy road.  I blinked and it was time to move on again.  We backed up in the early morning drizzle to head back to Mia Mia for J to do the work on the cottage.

Mia Mia Station {Visiting}

It was lovely to spend the night with Jim & Lorriane.  I hadn't caught up with them since we had stayed with them our first year traveling and that was in Manjimup!

We have all visited Mia Mia before, as in a flying 'need to borrow a drill' visit and it was nice to have sometime this time around.  Arriving later in the afternoon Sunday we waiting we relaxing for a short before setting up the camper for the night.  A few drinks and a dinner later we headed to bed.

Monday was a slow start {well for me} and we packed up some food to head out to the 'west side' of Mia Mia for Jim to show us around.  It really was breathtaking looking over all of this country now that it has rained, I mean really rained.  The feed on the station was as tall as Kyla, you could still see water laying around and the cattle all looked amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driving around, stopped to checkout the stock & feed and even managing to capture some great interactions between dog & cow was great.

We ventured to one of the old sheering sheds, for Justin to look over a building that lost it's roof earlier this year and also for the history buff in me to take some pictures of the building.  It really is amazing the history that these buildings hold, the way you can still smell the sheep, the left over wool and equipment and trying to visualise how things would have looked in full swing.

 

 

 

 

Justin took a few more measurements of the cottage and before we knew it it was almost 5pm and time to move onto the neighbours place, Winning.