Friendly frogs

Here are some new friends that we met at the farm today. Rodger, Fred, Bob, Trevor and up the top you can just see Franks butt. We traveled out to the property which we now properly own (sort of, the bank owns 4/5 and we own 1/5) and checked all the sheds, etc. I checked out one of the float enclosures in a trough and found about 30 frogs shacking up together. We also went up the back paddocks and checked out a couple of the other dams and got some great views from the south-west paddocks.

Looking south south west at Mt Davidson

A view of the House paddocks from the south west of the property, the highest area.

One of the somewhat minimal dams in the southwest of the property

Landed Gentry

As of 15:20 Australian Eastern Standard Time 24th March 2009 this toilet is ours. We also have a bit more house and some paddocks, bloody exciting really. The property was supposed to settle Friday last week but the Bore pump broke and we wanted to get that fixed before we got the place.

We are back to the UK this friday and will be back in 3 years time to settle on our farm.

Cheers

Sundry Farm Photos

Finally here are some photos that don’t fit in the previous blogs. There are a few different land types on the farm with different soils and flora. The hills have a sandy yellow soil and are mainly grassy while the flats have black soil. Along the creek there are some thick patches of trees, but not gums, more semi-rainforest from the old forests that were here many years ago. There are also sections of sandstone with a few outcrops of actual recognisable sandstone. We even have a few bottle trees on the property which is quite cool too.

Getting a bore water sample with an evil little mutt watching

The back paddocks

Looking down to the north east flat in the far right of the photo.

Some very old farm equipment

The flats in front of the house

One of the Dams, needs some more clay and less sandstone

A cactus making the most of a fertile log

One of the hills with a couple of bottle trees

The bottle tree near the piggery.

The Farm House

G’day

Here are some pics of the House. The house is about 70-90 years old, no one actually knows but it has typical old styles throughout and those odd rooms in Queensland houses that are in the centre of the house without adjoining an outside wall with windows etc.

The house is situated on a hill and looks down onto some flats by the creek bed looking towards the Gate.

We are happy with the house and will do some work on it when we get back from the Kingdom in 2-3 years time.

Large Poinciana in the back yard

Three car port

The Farm outbuildings

Here are some more pics of the farm, concentrating on the outbuildings

The dog Shed, good for dogs

The old Dairy/Shed, next to the Antique yards.

The loading Ramp, well shaded and disguised with greenery.

The Hills with the hay shed to the left

The drive and a few horseys

The garden shed

The Hay Shed, a big ole fella

The ole car port

Antique tank stand with tank

The Chook Shed

The grain/feed shed

The dairy shed possum - Trev

The piggery, actually huge with room for about 10-15 sows.

The bore - a small crap shed that hides a good source of wet stuff.