Camping on Thorntonia Station

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Trace and I went camping last weekend on a cattle property called Thorntonia a few hours north of the Isa on the way to Burketown. Our next door neighbors worked on the station for a few years and took us out to have a look. The picture above is one of a couple of dozen bores on the property that is 600,000 acres, a small back yard up here I am told. The station owners also lease part of Gregory Downs, another station up here, as well. The total is near 1.4 million acres.

We took the above photo in the arvo when the cattle make their way to the bore at the same time every day after grazing. There are plenty of jobs going up here for bore runners that take care of the bores on the property and carry out maintenance on the windmills. I will wouldn't mind doing that for a season next, I have some contacts now at least.:-)