Mark and Debbie cantering on the flood plains

We will be at Equitana this year, booth #190, for anyone that would like to stop by and meet us, ask a few questions, see a few photos.  We will be sharing a space with Mark Rodney and his Horsemanship business, who is pictured here on one of our treks last season, and Helen Packer from Packer’s High Country Horse Riding, based north of Omeo, Victoria .

The Digger’s Rest Crew will be waiting to hear the reviews of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia!  We are all looking forward to seeing the movie ourselves when it is released next week.

Digger's Rest crew

where the barramundi were bighting this morning!

Roderick spent Sunday morning fishing on the King River and came back with a barramundi for the hot plate.  It may be hot but atleast the fishing is good, and hey, even if you don’t catch a fish, the scenery is magnificent.

We do manage to find the cool spots this time of year.  I don’t know if this is one of those fertile Kimberley waterholes that the cast and crew from ‘Australia’ swam in, but it certainly beats the heat.

This is better than any swimming pool!

Well, signatures anyway…..We had the cast and crew of Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ here for several weeks last year, and Hugh Jackman was good enough to put his name on our signing wall in the old stone homestead.  Hugh was at Digger’s Rest for several days during filming and lived up to his reputation as a friendly, down to earth Australian.  We found most of the cast and crew to be easy going and they seemed to enjoy their stay here at Digger’s, despite the dust and heat of the Kimberley.

Tourism Australia’s new advertising campaign includes a recently released advertisment that was filmed on our doorstep, only a few kilometres from Digger’s Rest.  We have the same spectacular views of the Cockburn Ranges, which appear in the ‘Boab ad’, and are lucky enough to see the sunset over them at the end of every day.

With the hotter weather of the ‘build up’ the birds have become more active.  That would be opposite of human behaviour this time of year!  We have birds by the dozens visiting our bird baths these days. They are splashing water on themselves as much as we are.  The friar birds have come in to take advantage of the easy water.

A welcome waterhole after a long stretch across the salt marsh

We come across many Kimberley waterholes on our horse treks, out of necessity for watering the horses.  This particular waterhole may not bring on fertility, however, it is a welcome stop after a long ride across the salt marsh south of Wyndham, Western Australia.  This hole was most likely created by one of the bombs off loaded during the Japanese bombing raid on the town of Wyndham during World War II.

Well, we have a few waterholes around here, and our livestock are certainly fertile, so….. ?!  We just have to choose which ones we go swimming in (as to whether or not they are snappy free.  We can vouch for the fertility of the Kimberley anyway….we have calves, foals and goat kids in abundance at the moment!

kicking back by duck hole on cockburn creek

Riding across the plains in the early morning

We received this photo from Wendy Thorn, who rode with us in August.  This photo was taken riding across the alluvial plains of the Ord River near Parry Lagoon.

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