I think this Sturt Pea - my favorite flower - is a great Aussie flower to use for Christmas colours, sure beats the introduced plastic holly. It grows all over our country, the cattle love it as well so it can sometimes be a race of who gets it first.
Christmas time is a very typical Pilbara weather pattern for December, usually very hot and dry. We are therefore are very busy around this period checking and fixing windmills to keep the water up to the cattle. A lot of the crew I introduced you to have now gone home, there are only two of us left to do the work.
However we always plan our week so that we can, like most of us, have the big day off. Friends arrive and we eat great food, drink beer and of course crack a few bottles of ‘bangs bangs’ (champagne) through out the day.
If the waters are behaving we set off on Boxing Day to the coast just 100km north of our property. The sea is always a great place for a change of scene - especially when you’ve got the beach to yourself and a big fish or mud crab for dinner to celebrate.
I’ve got a busy, exciting year in 2008 and I will keep you updated. For the time being enjoy the silly season, I hope there is plenty cheer for you all.