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Craig Eddie – Open Sesame
May 10, 2018Remember Open Sesame – the magic words that allowed Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves entry into the treasure filled cave? Well BOOBOOK Ecotours, located in Roma Queensland, has its own version of open sesame. It is snails. Snails, you ask? That seems fairly innocuous, doesn’t it? To the average person the word snails does… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Echidna
May 3, 2018Ever had one of those weekends when you thought you would do “this” and you ended up doing “that”. It happens plenty of times at our place. My son and I were going to do some concreting first thing – cement in some posts for an outdoor gym he was creating. Craig, my husband, was… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Stock Route
April 26, 2018After picking up the kids from school in Roma and travelling home the other day, we had to give way to a different type of traffic – not unusual for Outback Queensland. Thought I would pull over and take a photo. This mob of cattle is travelling the “long Paddock”, which is an Australian colloquial… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Flood Gates
April 19, 2018I ducked out to the farm recently (about 40kms north of Roma, Queensland), it was a beautiful early morning trip to check on the cattle, see how the grass was growing after the beautiful rain we had received and to see how our flood gates were holding up. Flood gates are the fences we put… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Mustering
April 12, 2018Recently, I spent a couple of days mustering cattle to treat them for Buffalo Fly. The buffalo fly, Haematobia irritans exigua, is a small biting fly 3.5 – 4 mm long. They feed off cattle and buffalo (hence their name), and cause irritation which can result in reduced production, if cattle are heavily infested. They… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Emus
April 5, 2018Hi I’m Meryl. I had a tourism planning meeting in Roma, Queensland a couple of weeks back. When I came outside of the Visitor Information Centre at around 1pm and found these two tourists enjoying the rain. It is not often we get emus in the middle of town, and when we do they are… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Extreme Weather
March 28, 2018It never ceases to amaze me the amount of time and support long term locals give up to help their community across Outback Queensland. The owners and staff of BOOBOOK (Ecological Consulting) are another great example of this, even if I do say so myself. Two years ago, I and some fellow like-minded people, started… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Roma Tourism
March 22, 2018Hi, I’m Meryl and I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to help review the Roma Big Rig Oil Patch display along with other people from within the region. A few years back the Maranoa Regional Council produced The Big Rig Master Plan, which identifies a lot of great actions. Unfortunately funding availability has restricted… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Part One
March 8, 2018Hi, I’m Meryl. I live on the outskirts of a country town called Roma in Outback Queensland. Between my family, the farm, running an ecological consulting business, ecotour business, and community interests, life is never boring. This is the beginning of my Blog, as I aim to share with you weekly some of the day… Read more »
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Hot Temps bring Reptiles to Life in Roma
February 22, 2018The last few weeks have been very busy with reptile relocations for our team here at Boobook. This was due to the dry and very hot (over 40 degrees Celsius) conditions we were experiencing in the Roma Region. Here’s a few tidbits from our jobs: The little fellow above is an Eastern Bearded Dragon and… Read more »
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