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Perspective

You might be aware, the recent floods knocked us around in our beef cattle operation here at Granite Glen…

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The vast majority of the roads we use to work our country and our cattle are either completely impassable or four-wheel-drive territory only.

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Which is not really handy when you need to transport cattle and horses around it – and I think it’s clear from these images that we cannot even contemplate using a truck on these roads for some time.  We have bogged horses here in the past fortnight for heaven’s sake.  I nearly went down on one again today.

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To fix our shocking roads, we need A) heavy machinery and B) gravel.  And to get B) we need A) – and while the roads are damp and sinking, we cannot get A). Therefore both are out of the question in the foreseeable future.  No A) and No B) – you see?

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So everything has ground to a halt…

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… except for working those paddocks we can ride to from the house…

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so it’s really best I focus on them… the view is SO much better…

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Don’t you think?

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Our heart to those in Victoria currently enduring the fallout from the Queensland floods.  Check here if you want to know more.

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