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The wet years |
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 Who said crawler tractors don't get bogged. The men are Barry, David & Peter Vaughan |
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 Ian Walton next to bogged Inter. Bogged plough in background |
 Trough washaway near "Sams Well" that the property was named after. |
 Fence washaway looking down towards the trough. |
 Nabawa schoolbus bogged just up from Thompson/Reedy road |
 Temporary repair to road washaway at the bottom of Northern Gully hill. |
 Flooded crossing near Ardingly. |
 Ian Elliot & Ian Walton standing in washaway |
 Narra Tarra - Moonyoonooka road junction. |
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Misc. Photos |
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  The dry years. |
A large Dugite snake held by my
brother, Ian, in 1963. We caught it under the dogs hut. (No wonder they didn't like getting tied up there at night. |
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 Fathers pride & joy. One of his stud Angus bulls. |
 A leanto shed flung back onto the shearing shed roof by a Willy Willy. |
 Paul Desmond with his single cylinder Field Marshall, that he used to start with a blank shotgun cartridge. |
 Seeding at Tenindawa,they don't do it like this any more. (Thank goodness) |
 Harvesting with the Gleaner on a sand plain block. |
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 Bob Desmonds two cyl. diesal John Deere 730, one of the nicest tractors I have ever used. |
| Alan & Paul Desmond on the night shift. | ||||
 A truck mounted Hannaford seed grader. |
 The hard way we used to load grain. |
 The easy way we did it later on. |
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My trusty old .303 rifle that we wore the barrel out shooting at kangaroos on the sandplain blocks. |
 My brother Ian at the wheel of the Inter. on the sand plain block in 1962. |
 Our up market sand plain camp after we went from a tent to a caravan. |
 A good hay crop which my brother and I loaded by hand and carted to the hay shed. |
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Sitting in the sun on Paul Desmonds Landrover in 1962. |