We were given a lie-in today due to the detour we’d made yesterday that had put us closer to our next destination. At 09:30 we set off to Kroombit and arrived there at about 13:00. This Cattle Station was exactly that really but had been kitted out for: accommodation, bar and dining etc – a must seeing as it’s in the middle of nowhere.
Lunch was served straight away and was steak, naturally, so we all tucked in to that before checking into our rooms. This place is quite expensive really so we were glad it’d be just the one night.
Our first activity started right after we’d dumped our bags and this was goat mustering! We all saddled up on horses; they found out Corrie was the only one who used to ride and so gave her, what she thought would be a trouble maker – but Lark behaved very well! Danny was given Silver, a greedy horse always trying to stop for a graze and often being too stubborn to start walking again! We all set off through fields in a hunt for a herd of goats and, after an hour or so, we found them all. Next we had to herd all these 100 or so goats back down to an enclosure type thing shouting weird and wonderful phrases at them. This took ages and by the time we were done and off the horses we had to head straight up, all sweaty, to where we’d herded the goats to.
This is where we were then taught to lasso before getting into teams of 3 for a goat rodeo competition. Our team was put into the pen with 6 or 7 angry looking goats and each member had being given a task to do: Danny was to lasso a goat then grab it by the horns and drag it back to the other two. Kara (random lass we’d met) would then straddle the captured goat whilst Corrie went and got the branding iron (not actually hot – just painted red at the end) to burn its bum! We did this in a respectable 1 minute and 29 seconds; we came 4th out of 7 but 1st place had stolen victory by miles as they did it in 27 seconds (A lucky/ very good first lasso!)
After this we had to watch a few people who’d paid do clay pigeon shooting (5 shotgun rounds) before we headed back to the bar.
We had some nibbles, which turned out to be goat (this was quite nice and is supposedly the healthiest meat due to next to no fat running through the muscle… or something!) Then we had a beef stew, followed by roast beef and veg to prep us for the night’s activities.
We then sat around for a bit, drinking and talking before an old man gave a talk on the place and its history before he taught us all how to crack a whip. This was harder than it looks but most people managed it ok – Corrie did brilliantly… though Danny insists it was due to her getting a long whip!
After whip cracking we all went to try riding the mechanical bull. We all turned out to be useless apart from 3 who got above 9 bucks of the bull. Corrie finished a close 4th with 4 bucks, whilst Danny averaged with most others on 3… Corrie seems to be mastering all challenges set to her, but more annoyingly for Danny, she is beating him in them all (she didn’t lasso a live goat though!) The reigning champion of that bull has lasted a ridiculous 300 bucks; this record was set by a lady who works there.
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